Merry as a grig. A grig is the sand-eel, and a cricket. There was also a class of vagabond dancers and tumblers who visited ale-houses so called. Hence Levi Solomon, alias Cockleput, who…
An offering given to the priest at Whitsuntide, according to the number of chimneys in his parish. “The Bishop of Elie hath out of everie parish in Cambridgeshire a certain tribute called…
The 89th Tour de France (July 6-28) ran 20 stages plus a prologue, covering 2,050 miles starting in Luxembourg, passing through the Alps and Pyrenees in France and finishing on the Avenue des Champs…
The men of God's lot or inheritance. In St. Peter's first epistle (ch. v. 3) the Church is called “God's heritage” or lot. In the Old Testament the tribe of Levi is called the “lot or…
Called St. Elmo fires by the French, Castor and Pollux by the Romans. A celestial light seen occasionally to play round mast-heads, etc. (Latin, coma, hair.) Virgil makes good use of this…
(2 syl.) means literally, a coupon, or piece cut off (Latin, excido). It is a toll or duty levied on articles of home consumption—a slice cut off from these things for the national purse…
Jovian MoonsThe Magnetosphere of Jupiter Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system—a gaseous world as large as 1,300 Earths. Its equatorial diameter is 88,736 mi (142,800 km), while…
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Here are the key events in business and science news for the month of May 2009.
FDA Warns of Danger of Diet Drug Hydroxycut, Suggests Stopping Use (May 1): The Food and…
No 39 No 41 The Powers of the Convention to Form a Mixed Government Examined and Sustained From the New York Packet. Friday, January 18, 1788. Madison…
