Major-General John Charles Fremont, who conducted four expeditions across the Rocky Mountains. (1842). Pathfinder, in Fenimore Cooper's five novels, is Natty Bumppo, called the Pathfinder…
St. Giles is the patron saint of cripples and beggars, and was himself a cripple. Churches dedicated to this saint are, therefore, in the suburbs of large towns, as St. Giles of London,…
(To). A bucket is a pulley, and in Norfolk a beam. When pigs are killed, they are hung by their hind-legs on a bucket or beam, with their heads downwards, and oxen are hauled up by a…
Made dishes, odds and ends, formerly written “kickshose.” (French, quelque chose.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Kicksy-wicksyKick Up a Row A B C D E…
Day-to-day news from Athens by Shmuel Ross and Erin Teare Martin Sunday, August 29 Highlights of the Day A man with a history of disrupting sporting events runs onto the marathon course,…
