In the third week of November,in the year 1895,a dense yellow fog settled down upon London.From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to see the loom of the opposite houses.The first day Holmes had spent in cross-...
His creativity and foresight in science, engineering, and the arts continue to surprise and amaze today.
bread, and dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give itto the Dog that bit you." The Man who had been bitten laughed atthis advice and said, "Why? If I should do so, it would be as if Ishould beg every Dog in the town to bite me." Benefits bestowed upon the ...
It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August—the most terrible August in the history of the world. One might have thought already that God's curse hung heavy over a degenerate world, for there was an awesome hush and a feeling of vague expectancy in the sultry and stagnant ...
Running Wild formed in 1976 (as Granite Heart) and were considered among the most significant German power metal groups of the early to mid-1980s. They continued to release music through the years (their last studio LP was 2021’sBlood on Blood), but the Kupper era was easily their best...
This method is very time consuming so it is used less often than the other two methods: skin tests and blood tests. In a skin test, a doctor puts very small amounts of the parts of the foods that the child may be allergic to under the child's skin, then watches to...
Like blood from a cut vein, words flowed —James Morrow My words slipped from me like broken weapons —Edith Wharton An old sentence … ran through her mind like a frightened mouse in a maze —Babs H. Deal The rest [words meant to remain unspoken] rolled out like string from a hidden...
to his father-in-law, the twice exiled King Stanislas Leszczynski of Poland, the general conviction of the various Chopin biographers was that Nicolas had Polish blood in his veins. They romantically pictured him as being the son of one of the courtiers in the Duke's entourage, and ...
“There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. Deuteronomy 33:26. “Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and...
At that moment came a yeoman with another horse for the king, which, when the knight saw, he earnestly prayed to be given him. “For I have followed this quest,” said he, “twelve months, and either I shall achieve him or bleed of the best blood of my body.” It was King Pell...