The House is crammed: tier beyond tier they grinAnd cackle at the Show, while prancing ranksOf harlots shrill the chorus, drunk with din;‘We’re sure the Kaiser loves our dear old Tanks!’ More…
}}It is told in the book "Warlike Expeditions"This is a well-known record of the various expeditions led by the Prophet Mohamed on the authority of Abdullah, the son of Al- Abbas, More…
Amarillis I did woo,And I courted Phillis too;Daphne, for her love, I chose;Cloris, for that damask roseIn her cheek, I held as dear;Yea, a thousand liked well near.And, in love with all More…
""Glide soft, ye silver floods,And every spring:Within the shady woodsLet no bird sing!Nor from the grove a turtle-doveBe seen to couple with her love;But silence on each dale and mountain More…
"SCHINDLER'S LIST" (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) More…
The dense wet heat that hung over the face of land, like a blanket, prevented all hope of sleep in the first instance. The cicalas helped the heat; and the yelling jackals the cicalas. It More…
"}}"Venus by Adonis' sideCrying kiss'd, and kissing cried,Wrung her hands and tore her hairFor Adonis dying there. Stay (quoth she) O stay and live!Nature surely doth not giveTo the earth More…
"Why," you ask, "has not the Servian perished,Such calamities about him throng?"With the sword alike the lyre he cherished:He is saved by Song! |translation=}} More…
This list is not verified or even complete.}} # Majority# Evening # The Last Reader# At Sea# Immortality# The New River# Discosure# The Rainbow# (a) Duty (b) Vita# Charlie Rutlage# Lincoln More…
""ALABAMA" ARBITRATION".—This is one of those arbitrations on pecuniary claims, made by one state, on behalf of its subjects, against another state, which are referred More…
ALA-SHEHR (anc. Philadelphia), a town of Asia Minor, in the Aidin vilayet, situated in the valley of the Kuzu Chai (Cogamus), at the foot of the Boz Dagh (Mt. Tmolus) 83 m. E. of Smyrna More…
ALA-TAU ("Variegated Mountains"), the name of six mountain ranges in Asiatic Russia. Three of these are in the government of Semiryechensk in Central Asia, all belonging to the More…
ALABAMA RIVER, a river of Alabama, U.S.A., formed by the Tallapoosa and Coosa rivers, which unite about 6 m. above Montgomery. It flows W. as far as Selma, then S.W. until, about 45 m. More…
ALAGOAS, a maritime state of Brazil, bounded N. and W. by the state of Pernambuco, S. and W. by the state of Sergipe, and E. by the Atlantic. It hasan area of 22,584 sq. m. A dry, More…
ALAIS, a town of southern France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Gard, 25 m. N.N.W. of Nimes on the Paris-Lyon railway, on which it is an important junction. Pop. More…
ALAJUELA, the capital of the province of Alajuela, in Costa Rica, Central America, on the transcontinental railway, 15 m. W. of San Jose. Pop. (1904) 4860. Alajuela is built at the More…
ALAMANNI, or ALLEMANNI, a German tribe, first mentioned by Dio Cassius, under the year 213. They apparently dwelt in the basin of the Maine, to the south of the Chatti. According to More…
ALAMANNI, or ALEMANNI, LUIGI (1405-1556), Italian statesman and poet, was born at Florence. His father was a devoted adherent of the Medici party, but Luigi, smarting under a supposed More…
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