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Malaysia Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Malaysia Index: People Government Political Conditions Foreign Relations PEOPLEThe early Buddhist Malay kingdom of Srivijaya, based at what is now…

Walt Whitman: Salut au Monde!, Part 11

Part 11You whoever you are! You daughter or son of England! You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia! You dim-descended, black, divine-soul'd African, large, fine-…

Walt Whitman: Passage to India, Part 6

Part 6Year at whose wide-flung door I sing! Year of the purpose accomplish'd! Year of the marriage of continents, climates and oceans! (No mere doge of Venice now wedding the Adriatic,) I see…

Brewer's: Dyzemas Day

Tithe day. (Portuguese, dizimas, tithes; Law Latin, decimæ.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dyvour A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S…

Brewer's: Cortes

(2 syl.). The Spanish or Portuguese parliament. The word means “court officers.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894CortinaCorsned A B C D E F G H I J…

Words of Two Letters

Try the Find a Word: Crossword Search Ambary, DAAnd (French, Latin), ETArticle (Arabic), AL(French), LA, LE, UN(Spanish), EL, LA, UNAt the (French), AU(Spanish), ALBehold, LOBird: Hawaiian,…

Brewer's: Albino

A term originally applied by the Portuguese to those negroes who were mottled with white spots; but now applied to those who are born with red eyes and white hair. Albinos are found among…

Brewer's: Dorax

A Portuguese renegade, in Dryden's Don Sebastian—by far the best of all his characters. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dorcas SocietyDorado A B C D E F…

Brewer's: Embargo

To lay an embargo on him or it is to impose certain conditions before you give your consent. It is a Portuguese and Spanish word, meaning an order issued by authority to prevent ships…

Brewer's: Methuen Treaty

A commercial treaty between England and Portugal, negotiated by Paul Methuen, in 1703, whereby the Portuguese wines were received at a lower duty than those of France. This treaty was…