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Brewer's: Stockdove

The wild pigeon; so called because it breeds in the stocks of hollow trees, or rabbit burrows. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894StockfishStock, Lock, and…

What You Can Do to Help Shelter Animals

April 30th is National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day. This day was established to bring about awareness to the thousands of abandoned pets who need “forever homes.” In honor of this day, we at Infoplease…

2012 Golden Globe Awards

The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards were presented January 13, 2013. Here are the movie award winners. Best Motion Picture—Drama…

Antony and Cleopatra

By:William ShakespeareDirector:Barrie RutterSets and costumes:Jessica WorrallLighting:Brian HarrisSound:Conrad NelsonOpened:10/97 at the Majestic TheaterCast:Ishia Bennison, Barrie Rutter,…

The Last Night of Ballyhoo

By: Alfred UhryDirector: Ron LagomarsinoSets: John Lee BeattyCostumes: Jane GreenwoodLighting: Kenneth PosnerSound: Tony MeolaIncidental Music: Robert WaldmanOpened: 2/97 at the Helen Hayes…

2002 Intel Science Talent Search Winners

First Place: $100,000 scholarship, Ryan R. Patterson, Grand Junction, Colo., for his project entitled “The American Sign Language Translator.” Patterson devised a glove that converts…

Tuberculosis: Introduction

IntroductionTuberculosisIntroductionTuberculosis: Airborne NightmareTreating TBTB Is a Global Peril In an age when we believe that we have the tools to conquer most diseases, the ancient scourge of…

Brewer's: Chawbacon

(A). An uncouth rustic, supposed to eat no meat but bacon. I myself knew a most respectable day-labourer, who had saved up enough money to keep himself in old age, who told me he never saw…

Brewer's: Dr. Rezio

or Pedro Rezio of Aguero. The doctor of Barataria, who forbade Sancho Panza to taste any of the meats set before him. Roasted partridge was forbidden by Hippocrates; podrida was the most…

Brewer's: Clean and Unclean Animals

Pythagoras taught the doctrine of the transmigration of the soul, but that it never entered into those animals which it is lawful to eat. Hence those animals which were lawful food for man…