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Memorable Quotes from Muhammad Ali

From the mouth of the Champ Compiled by John Gettings "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." —Time magazine (1978) "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves…

generator

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Generator: The rotation of the conducting coil of wire in a magnetic field causes a current to be induced in the coil. This current is alternating and is conducted from the coil…

Brewer's: Indoors

In the house. Virgil makes Dido sit “in forbus divæ.” (Æneid, i. 505.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894InductionIndividualists A B C D E F G H I J…

Brewer's: Indulgence

(3 syl.), in the Roman Catholic Church, is the entire or partial remission of punishment due to sin either in this world or in purgatory. It is supposed that the Church is the bank of the…

Brewer's: Investiture

(Latin, clothing in or putting on canonicals.) The admission to office is generally made by investiture; thus, a pair of gloves is given to a Freemason in France; a cap is given to a…

Brewer's: Taming of the Shrew

The plot was borrowed from a drama of the same title, published by S. Leacroft, of Charing Cross, under the title of Six Old Plays on which Shakespeare Founded his Comedies. The induction…

anesthesia

(Encyclopedia) anesthesiaanesthesiaănĭsthēˈzhə [key] [Gr.,=insensibility], loss of sensation, especially that of pain, induced by drugs, especially as a means of facilitating safe surgical procedures…

Deloria, Vine Victor Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Deloria, Vine, Jr., 1933–2005, American author, theologian, historian, and activist, b. Marin, S.Dak. Considered by some to be the…

Brewer's: Abon Hassan

A rich merchant, transferred during sleep to the bed and palace of the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid. Next morning he was treated as the caliph, and every effort was made to make him forget his…

The Second Part of Henry the Fourth

ContentsDramatis PersonaeInductionAct IScene IScene IIScene IIIAct IIScene IScene IIScene IIIScene IVAct IIIScene IScene IIAct IVScene IScene IIScene IIIScene IVScene VAct VScene IScene IIScene…