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Weather: Telling What's Next
Telling What's NextWeatherOn Another FrontMass AppealPutting Up a FrontFrontal AttackStorms on the FrontTelling What's Next Much of the art of weather forecasting focuses on understanding the…Algebra: Whipping Word Problems
Whipping Word Problems Algebra Whipping Word Problems Interest Problems Area and Volume Problems Speed and Distance Problems Mixture and Combination Problems The mythological Greek gods were…Brewer's: Hypocrites' Isle
called by Rabelais Chaneph, which is the Hebrew for “hypocrisy.” Rabelais says it is wholly inhabited by sham saints, spiritual comedians, bead-tumblers, mumblers of avemarias, and such…The Elves and the Shoemaker
The Elves and the Shoemaker There was once a shoemaker, who worked very hard and was very honest: but still he could not earn enough to live upon; and at last all he had in the world was gone…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Sketch In Verse
by Robert Burns A New Psalm For The Chapel Of KilmarnockThe Wounded HareSketch In Verse Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox. How wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite,…Brewer's: Stone Soup
or St. Bernard's Soup. A beggar asked alms at a lordly mansion, but was told by the servants they had nothing to give him. “Sorry for it,” said the man, “but will you let me boil a little…Brewer's: Ragamuffin
(French, maroufle). A muff or muffin is a poor thing of a creature, a “regular muff;” so that a ragamuffin is a sorry creature in rags. “I have led my ragamuffins where they are peppered…Brewer's: Pickle
A rod in pickle. One ready to chastise with at any moment. Pickled means preserved for use. (Danish, pekel.) I'm in a pretty pickle. In a sorry plight, or state of disorder. “How camst…Brewer's: Animula
Animula, vagula, blandula, Hospes, comesque, corporis; Quæ nunc abibis in loca, Pallidula, rigida, nudula? The Emperor Hadrian to his SoulSorry-lived, blithe-little, fluttering Sprite…Brewer's: Denys
(St.), according to tradition, carried his head, after martyrdom, for six miles, and then deliberately laid it down on the spot where stands the present cathedral bearing his name. This…Trending
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