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(Encyclopedia) Se, symbol for the element selenium.

S.E. Hinton

Name at birth: Susan Eloise HintonS.E. Hinton was just 17 years old when she sold her first novel, The Outsiders, a modern classic of teen literature which has been alternately praised and condemned…

Brewer's: Malum in Se

(Latin). What is of itself wrong, and would be so even if no law existed against its commission, as lying, murder, theft. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Brewer's: Se lim

Son of `Abdallah and cousiu of Zuleika (3 syl.). When Giaffir (2 syl.) murdered Abdallah, he took Selim and brought him up as his own son. The young man fell in love with Zuleika, who…

Se Ri Pak

Se Ri PakBorn: Sept. 28, 1977Golfer won two Majors as an LPGA rookie in 1998 (LPGA Championship and U.S. Open); youngest player to win the U.S. Open (20); won British Open in 2001 and added…

Brewer's: Felo de Se

The act of a suicide when he commits self-murder. Murder is felony, and a man who murders himself commits this felony —felo de se. “A felo-de-se, therefore, is he that deliberately puts an…

Brewer's: La Garde Meurt ne se Rend pas

The words falsely ascribed to General Cambronne, at the battle of Waterloo; inscribed on his monument at Nantes. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894La…

West Quoddy Head

(Encyclopedia) West Quoddy Head, promontory extending into the Atlantic Ocean, SE Maine, SE of Lubec; the easternmost point in the continental United States. A lighthouse is there.

Saint François

(Encyclopedia) Saint FrançoisSaint FrançoissăN fräNswäˈ [key] or Saint Francis. 1 River, 165 mi (266 km) long, rising in Lac St. François, SE Que., Canada, and flowing SW through Lac Aylmer to…

Deer Park

(Encyclopedia) Deer Park. 1 Uninc. village (2020 pop. 28,837), Babylon town, Suffolk co., SE N.Y., a primarily residential suburb on Long Island. 2…