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Answered a Question in The Odyssey
Odysseus obtained the potent wine used to intoxicate the Cyclops from Maron: . . . But I took a skin of wine along, the ruddy, irresistible wine that Maron gave me once . . . He drew it off in... -
Answered a Question in The Vietnam War
1. d) Lyndon Johnson http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1663 The key word in this question is combat. President Truman sent the first U.S. military advisors to... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
There are several key omens in Act I: In scene ii, the Soothsayer (a fortune-teller or seer; sooth means "truth") warns Caesar, "Beware the ides of March” (l. 18). (On the ancient Roman... -
Answered a Question in America: Pathways to the Present
Notable federal laws enacted during the Gilded Age (1870–90) include: the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, which established federal regulation of the railroads. It outlawed collusion between... -
Answered a Question in World War I
No single event caused the United States to enter into World War I. At the war’s outbreak in 1914, the U.S. government announced its neutrality. Public sentiment ran very strongly against U.S.... -
Answered a Question in The Call of the Wild
"Hydrophoby" is a folksy pronunciation of hydrophobia, better known today as rabies. Rabies was once called hydrophobia because an early symptom of the fatal disease is difficulty in swallowing.... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
In deciding whether to join the conspiracy, Brutus must choose between his friendship with (and admiration of) Caesar and his public responsibility to prevent Caesar’s alleged ambition to undermine... -
Answered a Question in The Odyssey
With his herald's wand (later known as a caduceus), Hermes guided travelers and led the souls of the dead down to Hades (the underworld). His wand could also provide wealth by turning everything it... -
Answered a Question in Sonnet 18
Like a real estate lease (rental agreement), summer has a specific term (time frame). Time is an important theme in this sonnet. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, lease came into English... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
The darkness during the day, as described by Ross, appears to be a solar eclipse. For additional examples of Shakespeare’s use of solar and lunar eclipses to indicate disorder or imminent change,... -
Answered a Question in Jonathan Swift
Swift's proposer (an economist) suggests that Ireland could solve its poverty and overpopulation problems if its poor people would rear children, kill them, and sell them as food. This satirical... -
Answered a Question in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Rime is an archaic (old, outdated) spelling of rhyme (“poem”). When first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798, the poem’s original title was Rime of the Ancyent Marinere. Coleridge used many... -
Answered a Question in In Cold Blood
Frederic Johnson (note the correct spelling of the first name) is the brother-in-law of Perry Smith, one of the two men convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family. His wife, Barbara,...