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Best-Selling Books

Best-Selling Books, 2014 Best-Selling Books, 2013 Best-Selling Books, 2012 Best-Selling Books, 2011…

Poem: Preludes

14 - Portrait of a Lady Rhapsody on a Windy Night - 16 Preludes I The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days…

Brewer's: Feuilleton

[feu-ye-ton ]. A fly-sheet. Applied to the bottom part of French newspapers, generally devoted to a tale or some other light literature. “The daily [French] newspapers all had feuilletons…

Sentence Agreement: Agree to Disagree

Agree to DisagreeSentence AgreementIntroductionCollective NounsIndefinite PronounsWalk This WayAgree to Disagree Like subjects and verbs, pronouns and antecedents (the words to which they refer)…

Garrison, William Lloyd

(Encyclopedia) Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805–79, American abolitionist, b. Newburyport, Mass. He supplemented his limited schooling with newspaper work and in 1829 went to Baltimore to aid Benjamin…

MacDonald, Ramsay

(Encyclopedia) MacDonald, Ramsay (James Ramsay McDonald), 1866–1937, British statesman, b. Scotland. The illegitimate son of a servant, he went as a young man to London, where he joined the Social…

Koestler, Arthur

(Encyclopedia) Koestler, ArthurKoestler, Arthurkĕstˈlər [key], 1905–83, English writer, b. Budapest of Hungarian parents. Koestler spent his early years in Vienna and Palestine. He was an influential…

Morris, Gouverneur

(Encyclopedia) Morris, GouverneurMorris, Gouverneurgəvərnērˈ, –n&oobreve;rˈ [key], 1752–1816, American political leader and diplomat, b. Morrisania, N.Y. (now part of the Bronx); a grandson of…

Brook Farm

(Encyclopedia) Brook Farm, 1841–47, an experimental farm at West Roxbury, Mass., based on cooperative living. Founded by George Ripley, a Unitarian minister, the farm was initially financed by a…

Burlington, cities, United States

(Encyclopedia) Burlington. 1 City (2020 pop. 23,982), seat of Des Moines co., SE Iowa, on four hills overlooking the Mississippi (spanned there by rail…