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U.S. State Flags: Oregon – Wyoming

      Alabama – Louisiana Maine – Oklahoma Oregon – Wyoming     Oregon (front) Oregon (back) Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas…

Coleridge: France: an Ode, Notes

Kubla KhanDejection: an OdeFrance: an Ode When Coleridge republished this poem in the Post in 1802 he prefixed to it the following Argument First Stanza. An invocation to those objects…

ant

(Encyclopedia) ant, any of the 2,500 insect species constituting the family Formicidae of the order Hymenoptera, to which the bee and the wasp also belong. Like most members of the order, ants have a…

horse racing

(Encyclopedia) horse racing, trials of speed involving two or more horses. It includes races among harnessed horses with one of two particular gaits, among saddled Thoroughbreds (or, less frequently…

tapestry

(Encyclopedia) tapestry, hand-woven fabric of plain weave made without shuttle or drawboy, the design of weft threads being threaded into the warp with fingers or a bobbin. The name has been extended…

wave, in physics

(Encyclopedia) wave, in physics, the transfer of energy by the regular vibration, or oscillatory motion, either of some material medium or by the variation in magnitude of the field vectors of an…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: May 13, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark May 12, 1806May 14, 1806May 13, 1806 Tuesday May 13th 1806. This morning Capt. C. as usual was busily engaged with his patients untill eleven OCk…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: March 10, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark March 9, 1806March 11, 1806March 10, 1806 Monday March 10th 1806. About 1 P.M. it became fair and we sent out two parties of hunters on this side…