Looking north over Biscayne Bay at an island (at left) and at mangroves that line the shoreline (at back).Yosemite and Yellowstone are the jewels of our national park system. But you can find plenty…
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Capital: Denver
Official Name: State of Colorado
Organized as a territory/republic: February 28, 1861
Entered Union (rank): August 1, 1876 (38th)…
A wild Irish plunderer; so called from his being armed with a rapary or half-pike. (Irish rappire, a robber.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894RappeeRaphael…
Dairy Council, National (1915): 10255 W. Higgins Rd. Ste. 900, Rosemont, Ill. 60018. www.nationaldairycouncil.org. Daughters of the American Revolution, National Society (1896): 1776 D St. N.W.,…
(Encyclopedia) tapeworm, name for the parasitic flatworms forming the class Cestoda. All tapeworms spend the adult phase of their lives as parasites in the gut of a vertebrate animal (called the…
A stockfish, “hake salted and dried.” The Latin for a hake is merlucius, and lucius is a jack or pike. Mer, of course, means the sea, and Dover, the chief Clinque Port, is used as a…
The leaf symbolises the spear. The five anthers, the five wounds. The tendrils, the cords or whips. The column of the ovary, the pillar of the cross. The stamens, the hammers. The…
means literally a sediment; that which is on the ground. It is a military term. In battle the Romans drew up their army in three divisions: first, the light-armed troops made the attack,…
Instituted in ridicule of Charles I. The great annual banquet was held on the 30th January, and consisted of a cod's head, to represent the person of Charles Stuart, independent of his…
Upon the Hill and Grove at Bill-borowTo the Lord Fairfax See how the arched Earth does here
Rise in a perfect Hemisphere!
The stiffest Compass could not strike
A line more circular and like;…
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