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Our favorite reporter in Mouse City! Related Links Geronimo Stiton's Rodent Gazette Geronimo Stiton Book ReviewsMeet the Staffof the Rodent Gazette!Infoplease Poll Who is your…Food-Borne Diseases: Listeria
ListeriaFood-Borne DiseasesIntroductionE. coli 0157:H7CamphylobacterSalmonellaShigellaListeriaTrichinosis Doctors and epidemiologists often overlook Listeria, another food-borne bacterium, as a…Brewer's: Costermonger
A seller of eatables about the streets, properly an appleseller (from costard, a sort of apple, and monger, “a trader;” Saxon, mangian, “to trade”), a word still retained in iron-monger,…Brewer's: Macaronic Latin
Dog Latin, or modern words with Latin endings. The law pleadings of G. Steevens, as Daniel v. Dishclout and Bullum v. Boatum, are excellent examples. (See Dog Latin.) Maearonic Latin is a…Brewer's: Signs
instead of words. A symbolic language made by gestures. Members of religious orders bound to silence, communicate with each other in this way. John, a monk, gives, in his Life of St. Odo,…Brewer's: Bengodi
A wonderful country where “they tie the vines with sausages, where you may buy a fat goose for a penny and have the giblets given into the bargain. In this place there is a mountain of…Brewer's: Pedlar
is not a tramp who goes on his feet, as if from the Latin pedes (feet), but a man who carries a ped or hamper without a lid, in which are stored fish or other articles to hawk about the…Brewer's: Moon-rakers
The people of Wiltshire are so called. In the “good old times” they were noted smugglers, and one day, seeing the coastguard on the watch, they sunk in the sea some smuggled whisky. When…Asian Food Primer: Tibetan Food
by David Johnson Asian Foods Guide Common ingredients and popular dishes of various cultures. IntroductionEast Asia ChinaJapanKoreaMongoliaTibet Pacific Region FijiHawaiiPapua New…Brewer's: Impossibilities
Latin phrases: Æthiopem de-albare. Arenas arare. Laterem lavare. Pumice aridius. In asino lanam. English phrases: Gathering grapes from thistles. Fetching water in a sieve. Washing a…Trending
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