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Brewer's: Barnacle
The Solan goose. The strange tales of this creature have arisen from a tissue of blunders. The Latin pernacula is a “small limpet,” and bernacula (Portuguese, bernaca; French, barnache) is…Brewer's: Genre Painter
(genre 1 syl.). A painter of domestic, rural, or village scenes, such as A Village Wedding, The Young Recruit, Blind Man's Buff, The Village Politician, etc. It is a French term, and means…Brewer's: Bachelor's Buttons
Several flowers are so called. Red Bachelor's Buttons, the double red campion; yellow Bachelor's Buttons, the “upright crowfoot”; white Bachelor's Buttons, the white ranunculus and white…1928 Olympic Cycling Results
Event Time Individual Road Race (1041/2 mls) Henry Hansen, DEN 4:47:18 Frank Southall, GBR 4:55:06 Gösta Carlsson, SWE 5:00:17 Team Road Race Denmark 15:…William George THOMPSON, Congress, IA (1830-1911)
THOMPSON William George , a Representative from Iowa; born near Butler, Butler County, Pa., January 17, 1830; attended the common schools and the Witherspoon Institute in Butler, Pa.; studied law…Samuel Anderson PURVIANCE, Congress, PA (1809-1882)
PURVIANCE Samuel Anderson , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Butler, Pa., January 10, 1809; after receiving a preliminary education, entered college and pursued a partial course and…Henry Lee MOREY, Congress, OH (1841-1902)
MOREY Henry Lee , a Representative from Ohio; born in Milford Township, near Collinsville, Butler County, Ohio, April 8, 1841; attended the common schools and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio;…William Oscar ATKESON, Congress, MO (1854-1931)
ATKESON William Oscar , a Representative from Missouri; born on a farm near Buffalo, Putnam County, Va. (now West Virginia), August 24, 1854; attended the public schools and the University of…May 2015 Current Events: U.S. News
World News | Business News | Disasters & Science News Here are the key events in United States news for the month of…Brewer's: Lamb's Wool
A beverage consisting of the juice of apples roasted over spiced ale. A great day for this drink was the feast of the apple-gathering, called in Irish la mas ubhal, pronounced “lammas ool…Trending
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