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Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Prince and Princess

Of the Flower-Garden At the Ol...The Little Robber MaidenThe Prince and Princess Gerda was obliged to rest herself again, when, exactly opposite to her, a large Raven came hopping over…

Watersports

YearBarefoot Waterski Jumping1995Justin Seers1996Ron Scarpa1997Peter Fleck1998Peter Fleck1999Event discontinuedYearMen's Wakeboarding1996Parks Bonifay1997Jeremy Kovak1998Darin…

Walt Whitman: There Was a Child Went Forth

There Was a Child Went ForthThere was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain…

Brewer's: Gillie

(g hard). A servant or attendant; the man who leads a pony about when a child is riding. A gillie-wet-foot is a barefooted Highland lad. “These gillie-wet-foots, as they were called, were…

Brewer's: Minories

(3 syl.) (London). The cloister of the Minims or, rather, Minoresses (nuns of St. Clare). The Minims were certain reformed Franciscans, founded by St. Francis de Paula in the fifteenth…

1966–1967 Emmy Awards

Outstanding Dramatic SeriesMission: Impossible (CBS)Outstanding Continued Performance By an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic SeriesBill Cosby, I SpyOutstanding Continued Performance By…

Brewer's: Gueux

Les Gueux. The ragamuffins. A nickname assumed by the first revolutionists of Holland in 1665. It arose thus: When the Duchess of Parma made inquiry about them of Count Berlaymont, he told…

Brewer's: Rothschild

[Red Shield]. Mayer Amschel, in 1763, made his appearance in Hanover barefoot, with a sack on his shoulders and a bundle of rags on his back. Successful in trade, he returned to Frankfort…