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Elements and Mottoes

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State Mottoes

Words to live by Read the following alphabetical list of the 50 states to discover each state's motto. Looking for each state's abbreviation or postal code? Keep our cheatsheet handy.  State…

Brewer's: Guise's Motto:

“A chacun son tour, ” on the standards of the Duc de Guise, who put himself at the head of the Catholic League in the sixteenth century, meant. “My turn will come.” Source: Dictionary of…

Post Office Motto

The Question: I roughly recall that the motto of the U.S. Postal Service is in part, "Neither snow nor rain nor dark of night . . ." How does the rest go? Who wrote it? And…

E Pluribus Unum

(Encyclopedia) E Pluribus UnumE Pluribus Unumē pl&oobreve;rˈĭbəs y&oomacr;ˈnəm [key] [Lat.,=one made out of many], motto on the Great Seal of the United States and on many U.S. coins.…

Spars

(Encyclopedia) Spars [from the motto “Semper Paratus,” Lat.,=always prepared], the women's reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard, created in Nov., 1942, to release men for sea duty. Wartime enlistment…

Sigtuna

(Encyclopedia) SigtunaSigtunasĭgˈtüˌnä [key], town (1990 pop. 4,918), Stockholm co., E Sweden, on Lake Skarven, near Stockholm. Founded c.1000, it was one of Sweden's earliest towns, its first…

Freiligrath, Ferdinand

(Encyclopedia) Freiligrath, FerdinandFreiligrath, Ferdinandfĕrˈdēnänt frīˈlĭkhrät [key], 1810–76, German poet. In 1844 he expressed radically liberal sentiments in his collection of political verse…

Day, John, English printer

(Encyclopedia) Day, John, 1522–84, English printer. At his London shop Day designed and made type for himself, but not for sale. His types included musical notes and the first Anglo-Saxon type. He…