The vetch which has pods shaped like a horse-shoe; sometimes called the “horse-shoe vetch.” (See Horse-Chestnut.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Horse and…
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Under ArcturusMadison CaweinI"I belt the morn with ribboned mist;
With baldricked blue I gird the noon,
And dusk with purple, crimson-kissed,
White-buckled with the hunter's-moon."These…
Poem 2 Gerontion Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for…
by T. S. Eliot PreludesMorning at the WindowRhapsody on a Windy Night Twelve o'clock.
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the…
Obsolete words slightly altered, and made current again- as “chestnut” for castnut, from Castana, in Thessaly; “court-cards” for coat-cards; “currants” for corinths; “frontispiece” for…
Palm Sunday is so called from the custom of eating figs on that day. The practice arose from the Bible story of Zaccheus, who climbed up into a fig-tree to see Jesus. Many other festivals…
A Timeline1903 Binney & Smith Co. introduces the first Crayola Crayons. There are 8 colors in a box:blackbluebrowngreenorangeredvioletyellow 1949 There are 40 colors added:…
(Encyclopedia) oak, any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus of the family Fagaceae (beech family). This complex genus includes as many as 600, found chiefly in north temperate zones and also in…
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