Caribbean food, steel bands, calypso, and parades make the Notting Hill Carnival an international draw every August by Liz Olson Related Links Queen's…
More Impish Fun? "Oh definitely Da" by Holly Hartman "Weenie's coat was made of porcupine which was rawther sweet He got it especially for the trip They treated him like a…
He tirlëd at the pin. He twiddled or rattled with the latch before opening the door. Guillaume di Lorris, in his Romance of the Rose (thirteenth century), says, “When persons visit a…
Also called Cynosura, or “Dog's tail,” from its circular sweep. The pole star is a in the tail. (See Cynosure.) St. Ursula and the eleven thousand virgin martyrs. Ursula was a British…
Wise Men of Gotham—fools. Many tales of folly have been fathered on the Gothamites, one of which is their joining hands round a thornbush to shut in a cuckoo. The “bush” is still shown to…
by Rudolph Erich Raspe The Baron relates an accoun... An encounter between the Ba... In which the Baron proves h... In which the Baron proves himself a good shot-He loses his…
Half stout and half porter. The term arises from the practice at breweries of allowing the coopers a daily portion of stout and porter. As they do not like to drink porter after stout,…
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Lines: 'When the Lamp Is Shattered'To Jane: The RecollectionTo Jane: The Invitation This and the following poem were published together in their original form as…
