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Brewer's: De Haut en Bas
Superciliously. “She used to treat him a little de haut en bas.” —C.Reade. But Du haut en bas. From top to bottom. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894De JureDe…Brewer's: Ex Ped'e Herculem
From this sample you can judge of the whole. Plutarch says that Pythagoras ingeniously calculated the height of Hercules by comparing the length of various stadia in Greece. A stadium was…Ingushetia
(Encyclopedia) IngushetiaIngushetiaĭngˌg&oomacr;shĕtˈēə, –shēˈshə [key] or Ingush RepublicIngushetiaĭng&oomacr;shˈ [key], republic, c.1,240 sq mi (3,210 sq km), Russian Federation, in the N…November 2009 Current Events: World News
U.S. News | Business/Science News Here are the key events in world news for the month of November 2009. Palestinian Leader Will Not Seek Reelection (Nov. 5): Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas…Haiti Department of State Background
U.S. Department of State Background Note Haiti Index: People History Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Haiti Relations PEOPLEAlthough Haiti averages about 302 people per square kilometer, its…Deng Xiaoping
One of the old guard of the Chinese Communist Party, Deng Xiaoping became the party's Secretary General in 1954, but was purged by Chairman Mao in 1966 for his strong objections to the excesses of…Reform party, in the United States
(Encyclopedia) Reform party, in the United States, political party founded in 1995 by H. Ross Perot as an alternative to the Democratic and Republican parties. The Reform party's aims originally…Maximilien Robespierre
Name at birth: Maximilien François Marie Isidore de RobespierreInfluenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Robespierre went from being active in the National Assembly of France to being a leader of the…Wu Chao
Wu Chao (also Wu Hou or Wu Zetien) was born into a noble Chinese family and began serving the emperor as a concubine when she was a young teenager. As the mother of two of the emperor's sons, Wu…Nawaz Sharif, 1999 News
56, Pakistani general, ousted Pakistan's prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, in an October coup and installed himself as de facto leader. Musharraf claimed Sharif failed to rescue the country…Trending
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