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Record of the Year“This Masquerade,” George BensonAlbum of the YearSongs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder (Tamla/Motown)Song of the Year“I Write the Songs,” Bruce Johnston, songwriterBest…October 2016: FCC Fines Comcast $2.3 Million
World News | Disasters & Science News Here's a slideshow depicting the major U.S. news events of October 2016. 1. Police Kill Black Man in L.A. 2. FBI Announces Arrest of NSA…U.S. News: Movie Theater Shootings in Colorado Shocks the Nation
Major U.S. news stories, from the Presidential Election to the Chicago Teachers' Strike The Century 16 Theater in Aurora, Colorado, location of the shootings Photo…Brewer's: Excise
(2 syl.) means literally, a coupon, or piece cut off (Latin, excido). It is a toll or duty levied on articles of home consumption—a slice cut off from these things for the national purse…Brewer's: Pumpernickel
Brown George or rye-bread used by Westphalian peasants. His Transparency of Pumpernickel. So the Times satirised the minor German princes, “whose ninety men and ten drummers constituted…Brewer's: Rack-rent
The actual value or rent of a tenement, and not that modified form on which the rates and taxes are usually levied. (Saxon, raecan, to stretch; Dutch, racken.) “A rent which is equivalent…Brewer's: Salic Law
The law so called is one chapter of the Salian code regarding succession to salic lands, which was limited to heirs male to the exclusion of females, chiefly because certain military…Brewer's: Grig
Merry as a grig. A grig is the sand-eel, and a cricket. There was also a class of vagabond dancers and tumblers who visited ale-houses so called. Hence Levi Solomon, alias Cockleput, who…Brewer's: Clergy
The men of God's lot or inheritance. In St. Peter's first epistle (ch. v. 3) the Church is called “God's heritage” or lot. In the Old Testament the tribe of Levi is called the “lot or…Trending
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