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Baron Munchausen: Supplement
by Rudolph Erich Raspe The Baron slips through the...Supplement Extraordinary flight on the back of an eagle, over France to Gibraltar, South and North America, the Polar Regions,…Brewer's: Misnomers
Absalom means a Father's Peace, a fatal name for David's rebellious son. Acid (sour) applied in chemistry to a class of bodies to which sourness is only accidental and by no means a…1 Samuel: 14
1 Samuel Chapter 14 1 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines'…Ezekiel: 40
Ezekiel Chapter 40 1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was…Maitrayana-Brahmaya-Upanishad: Sixth Prapathaka
Sixth Prapatraka1. He (the Self) bears the Self in two ways, as he who is Prâna (breath), and as he who is Aditya (the sun). Therefore there are two paths for him, within and without, and…The Song of Hiawatha: The Hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis
Pau-Puk-Keewis The Death of Kwasind The Hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis Full of wrath was Hiawatha When he came into the village, Found the people in confusion, Heard of all the…flood, in hydrology
(Encyclopedia) flood, inundation of land by the rise and overflow of a body of water. Floods occur most commonly when water from heavy rainfall, from melting ice and snow, or from a combination of…To the Great Falls of the Missouri
Chapter 9 Chapter 11 To the Great Falls of the Missouri Next day, June 8, the Lewis party returned to the main body of the expedition. They reported that timber was scarce along…Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Adirondacs
The AdirondacsA JournalDedicated to My Fellow Travellers in August, 1858 Wise and polite,—and if I drew Their several portraits, you would own Chaucer had no such worthy crew,…The True George Washington: Relations with the Fair Sex: Marriage
MarriageThe love-affair thus alluded to had begun in March, 1758, when ill health had taken Washington to Williamsburg to consult physicians, thinking, indeed, of himself as a doomed man. In…Trending
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