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Aesop's Fables: The Crow and the Raven

by Aesop The Fox and the HedgehogThe WitchThe Crow and the Raven A Crow became very jealous of a Raven, because the latter was regarded by men as a bird of omen which foretold the future,…

Aesop's Fables: The Swallow and the Crow

by Aesop Prometheus and the Making of ManThe Hunter and the HorsemanThe Swallow and the Crow A Swallow was once boasting to a Crow about her birth. "I was once a princess," said she, "the…

Aesop's Fables: The Fox and the Crow

by Aesop The Dog and the SowThe Horse and the GroomThe Fox and the Crow A Crow was sitting on a branch of a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak when a Fox observed her and set his…

Brewer's: Crow over One

(To), is to exult over a vanquished or abased person. The allusion is to cocks, who always crow when they have vanquished an adversary. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…

Crowe's <i>Almost Famous</i>

Director Cameron Crowe and co-star Kate Hudson talk about groupies, the 70's, and rock-and-roll's heyday by Peter Keough This article was posted on September 11, 2000. Both the young and old…

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Sammy Davis, Jr. was a genuine song-and-dance man: an expert tapdancer, crooner, impressionist and all-purpose entertainer. Davis is best remembered for his high-energy years as part of Frank Sinatra…

William Evans CROW, Congress, PA (1870-1922)

Senate Years of Service: 1921-1922 Party: Republican CROW William Evans , a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in German Township, Fayette County, Pa., March 10, 1870; attended the public schools…

digital art

(Encyclopedia) digital art, contemporary art in which computer technology is used in a wide variety of ways to make distinctive works. Digital art was pioneered in the 1970s but only came into its…

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The Devil's Dictionary: Law

by Ambrose Bierce LAURELLAWFULLAW -n. Once Law was sitting on the bench, And Mercy knelt a-weeping. "Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench! Nor come before me creeping…