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Aesop's Fables: The Fox and the Crow

by Aesop The Dog and the SowThe Horse and the GroomThe Fox and the Crow A Crow was sitting on a branch of a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak when a Fox observed her and set his…

Brewer's: Crow over One

(To), is to exult over a vanquished or abased person. The allusion is to cocks, who always crow when they have vanquished an adversary. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…

William Evans CROW, Congress, PA (1870-1922)

Senate Years of Service: 1921-1922 Party: Republican CROW William Evans , a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in German Township, Fayette County, Pa., March 10, 1870; attended the public schools…

digital art

(Encyclopedia) digital art, contemporary art in which computer technology is used in a wide variety of ways to make distinctive works. Digital art was pioneered in the 1970s but only came into its…

Russell, Lillian

(Encyclopedia) Russell, Lillian, 1861–1922, American singer and actress, b. Clinton, Iowa. Her original name was Helen Louise Leonard. She first appeared in light opera in 1879. In the early 1880s…

Brewer's: Æmillian Law

Made by Æmilius Mamercus the prætor. It enjoined that the oldest priest should drive a nail every year into the capitol on the ides of September (September 5). Source: Dictionary of…

Brewer's: Agrarian Law

from the Latin ager (land), is a law for making land the common property of a nation, and not the particular property of individuals. In a modified form, it means a redistribution of land…

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The Devil's Dictionary: Law

by Ambrose Bierce LAURELLAWFULLAW -n. Once Law was sitting on the bench, And Mercy knelt a-weeping. "Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench! Nor come before me creeping…