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(Encyclopedia) Yost, Ed (Paul Edward Yost), 1919–2007, American balloonist, b. Bristow, Iowa, grad. Boeing School of Aeronautics, 1940. The father of modern hot-air ballooning, Yost pioneered the…
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A simpleton. The character is introduced in the well-known nursery tale, the author of which is unknown. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SimplicitySimple A…
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(Encyclopedia) trickster, a mythic figure common among Native North Americans, South Americans, and Africans. Usually male but occasionally female or disguised in female form, he is notorious for…
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