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Brewer's: Gutter Lane
(London). A corruption of Guthurun Lane, from a Mr. Guthurun, Goderoune, or Guthrum, who, as Stow informs us, “possessed the chief property therein.” (See Guthrum.) All goes down Gutter…Brewer's: Devils
(in Dante's Divine Comedy): Alichino (The allurer.) Barbariccia. (The malicious.) Calcobrina. (The grace-scorner.) Caynazzo. (The snarler.) Ciriato Sannuto. (The tusked boar.)…Anatomy and
Physiology: Can You Hear Me Now?
Can You Hear Me Now?Anatomy and
PhysiologyThe SensesWindows to the SoulCan You Hear Me Now?The Nose KnowsDon't Be So Touchy!
There is an elegant, mechanical simplicity to sound. Sound is…Epidemics of the Past: Influenza: A Twentieth-Century Epidemic
Influenza: A Twentieth-Century Epidemic Epidemics of the Past Smallpox: 12,000 Years of Terror Bubonic Plague Influenza: A Twentieth-Century Epidemic On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand…The Pink
The Pink There was once upon a time a queen to whom God had given no children. Every morning she went into the garden and prayed to God in heaven to bestow on her a son or a daughter. Then an…Flatland: How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
by Edwin A. Abbott How the Sphere, having in vain...How, though the Sphere showed ...How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there An unspeakable horror seized me. There was a darkness;…Aitareya-Aranyaka: Second Aranyaka, Fourth Adhyâya, Third Khanda
Third Khanda1. He thought: “There are these worlds and the guardians of the worlds. Let me send forth food for them.” (1)He brooded over the water[87]. From the water thus brooded on, matter[…John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book VI
Book VI All night the dreadless Angel unpursu'd Through Heav'ns wide Champain held his way, till Morn, Wak't by the circling Hours, with rosie hand Unbarr'd the gates of Light. There is a…The Iliad of Homer: Juno Deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus
The Fourth Battle Continued, i... The Fifth Battle at the Ships;... Juno Deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus. Nestor, sitting at the table with Machaon, is alarmed with the…Childhood Diseases: The Common Cold
The Common ColdChildhood DiseasesIntroductionThe Polio PanicChickenpoxEar AchesMeasly MeaslesMumpsRubellaDeadly DiphtheriaPertussis, or Whooping CoughTerrifying TetanusThe Importance of Childhood…Trending
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