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Brewer's: Cabbage

It is said that no sort of food causes so much thirst as cabbage, especially that called colewort. Pausanias tells us it first sprang from the sweat of Jupiter, some drops of which fell on…

Brewer's: Carpet

The magic carpet of Tangu. A carpet to all appearances worthless, but if anyone sat thereon, it would transport him instantaneously to the place he wished to go. So called because it came…

Brewer's: Chrisom

or Chrism signifies properly “the white cloth set by the minister at baptism on the head of the newly anointed with chrism”— i.e. a composition of oil and balm. In the Form of Private…

Brewer's: Saivas

(2 syl.). Worshippers of Siva, one of the three great Indian sects; they are at present divided into - (1) Dandins or staff-bearers, the Hindu mendicants; so called because they carry a…

Brewer's: Livery

What is delivered. The clothes of a man-servant delivered to him by his master. The stables to which your horse is delivered for keep. During the Merovingian and Carlovingian dynasties,…

Fathers by the Numbers

Facts about dads from the U.S. Census Bureau Related Links Father's Day Timeline Father's Day Quotations Father's Day Quiz   The idea of Father's Day was conceived slightly…

The Civil War Uniform

From blue to gray and many colors in between, the clothing of the Civil War soldier was often far from uniform By Catherine McNiff Confederate general uniform (Atlanta Civil War Museum, By London…

Daniel: 12

Daniel Chapter 12 1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was…

Novel Experiences among the Indians

Chapter 3 Chapter 5 Novel Experiences among the Indians About this time (the nineteenth and twentieth of August), the explorers lost by death the only member of their party who…