Dictionary - Aesop's Fables: Social Studies Dictionary - Aesop's Fables
Definition and meaning of Aesop's Fables   Aesop's Fables A group of stories attributed to the Greek storyteller Aesop which ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesop's Fables: Encyclopedia - Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (circa 620 BC – 560 BC), a slave and story-teller living ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aesop's Fables: Social Studies Dictionary - Aesop's Fables
Definition and meaning of Aesop's Fables   Aesop's Fables A group of stories attributed to the Greek storyteller Aesop which ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesop: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesop - Aesop's Fables
Main article: Aesop's Fables Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop. Aesop's Fables has also be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesop's Fables: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesop's Fables - Origins
According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the fables were invented by a slave named Aesop who lived in Ancient Greece during the 6th ce...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Panchatantra, Pancatantra: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Panchatantra, Pancatantra
Panchatantra pancatantra (Sanskrit) [from pancha five + tantra book]   A collection in five books of philosophical and moral inst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesop: Encyclopedia - Aesop
Aesop, or Æsop (from the Greek Aisopos), known only for his fables, was by tradition a slave of African descent who lived from about 620...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropomorphism: Encyclopedia - Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism, a form of personification (applying human or animal qualities to inanimate objects) and similar to prosopopoeia (adopti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia - British Literature
British literature is literature from the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The largest part of this literature is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - Cockfighting
Male chickens are known as cocks (in most countries), cockerels (if younger than one year) or roosters (primarily in the US and Canada). ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donkey: Encyclopedia Ii - Donkey - Relationship To Horses
A male donkey can be crossed with a female horse to produce a mule. A male horse can be crossed with a female donkey (jennet or jenny) to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Greeks: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Greeks - Explorers
List of Greeks - Ancient period. Colaeus of Samos (628 BCE) Herodotus of Halicarnassus (484?–420? BCE) Nearchus (360?–312 BCE) Pyt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romanization Of Japanese: Encyclopedia - Romanization Of Japanese
Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 R�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The North Wind And The Sun: Encyclopedia Ii - The North Wind And The Sun - Use In Phonetic Demonstrations
The fable is made famous by its use in phonetic descriptions of languages as an illustration of spoken language. In the Handbook of the I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rhyme Royal: Encyclopedia - Rhyme Royal
Rhyme royal is a rhyming stanza form that was introduced into English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. Rhyme royal - Form. The rhyme royal s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia - Chicken
A chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated bird which is often raised as a type of poultry. It is believed to be descended from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parable: Encyclopedia - Parable
A parable is a story in prose or verse that is told to illustrate a (perhaps covert) religious, moral or philosophical idea. The word com...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Barnes & Noble Classics Collection: Encyclopedia Ii - Barnes & Noble Classics Collection - Black Dustjacket Hardcover Collection
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - ISBN 1566192943 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - ISBN 15...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Short Story: Encyclopedia Ii - Short Story - History
Short stories date back to the oral story-telling traditions which produced such notable tales as Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey. Tale...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bill Tytla: Encyclopedia Ii - Bill Tytla - Early Years
Vladimir Peter Tytla was born on October 25, 1904 in Yonkers, New York, USA. His Ukrainian immigrant parents reportedly recognized talent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doric Dialect: Encyclopedia Ii - Doric Dialect - Pronunciation And Lexis
The main phonetic differences between Doric and other Lowland Scots dialects are as follows: wh is pronounced /f/ instead of /ʍ/ — /f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romanization Of Japanese: Encyclopedia Ii - Romanization Of Japanese - Modern Systems
Romanization of Japanese - Hepburn. Main articles: Hepburn romanization, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Merchant Taylors' School: Encyclopedia Ii - Merchant Taylors' School - School History
Merchant Taylors' School - 1561 - 1605. The school was founded in 1561 by members of the Merchant Taylors' Company. The site of the ori...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exploding Toad: Encyclopedia Ii - Exploding Toad - Exploding Amphibians In Fiction
In a story titled "The Frog and the Ox" of the Aesop's Fables, a frog, seeing an ox walking by, wanted to become as large and powerful as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domesticated Goose: Encyclopedia Ii - Domesticated Goose - Geese In Cooking
Geese can be roasted as a whole bird, though their size precludes this preparation except for banquets and other festive meals (such as o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - General Biology And Habitat
Male chickens are known as roosters (in the U.S., Canada and Australia), cocks, or cockerels if they are young. Female chickens are known...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talking Animal: Encyclopedia Ii - Talking Animal - Fiction
Talking animals are a common theme in fiction, especially in mythology and folk tales. Fictional talking animals often are anthropomorphi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesop: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesop - Life
The place of Aesop's birth is uncertain – Thrace, Phrygia, Aethiopia, Samos, Athens and Sardis all claim the honour. Some scholars beli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rhyme Royal: Encyclopedia Ii - Rhyme Royal - History
Chaucer first used the rhyme royal stanza in his long poems Troilus and Criseyde and Parlement of Foules. He also used it for four of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bill Tytla: Encyclopedia Ii - Bill Tytla - Work At Tempo Productions
Tytla left Famous Studio during the early 1950s to work for Tempo Productions. Tempo was founded in 1946 as a partnership between David H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rhyme Royal: Encyclopedia Ii - Rhyme Royal - Some Examples
Here is the opening stanza of Troilus and Criseyde: The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - Courting
When a rooster finds food he may call the other chickens to eat it first. He does this by clucking in a high pitch as well as picking up ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bill Tytla: Encyclopedia Ii - Bill Tytla - Work At Terrytoons And Famous Studios
After leaving the Disney studio Tytla returned to Terrytoons for a short while. There he was assigned as a film director for the short Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bill Tytla: Encyclopedia Ii - Bill Tytla - The Strike
While Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was hugely successful the following films had a hard time making money due to the war in Europe cut...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bill Tytla: Encyclopedia Ii - Bill Tytla - Back In America
Tytla returned to the United States with the attitude that he could become a great master of animation by incorporating his rich knowledg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bill Tytla: Encyclopedia Ii - Bill Tytla - Continued Disney Career
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was eventually completed and released on December 21, 1937. Tytla was next assigned to animate Stromboli,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - Issues With Mass Production
Many animal advocates object to killing chickens for food or object to the factory farm conditions under which they are raised. Commercia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - Chickens In Religion
In India, the Rooster is an insignia of Karthikeya, son of Lord Shiva, the God of Destruction. Karthikeya is known by his popular names o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romanization Of Japanese: Encyclopedia Ii - Romanization Of Japanese - Kana Without Romanized Forms
There is no generally accepted form of romanization for some forms of kana. In particular there is no form of romanization for full-sized...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romanization Of Japanese: Encyclopedia Ii - Romanization Of Japanese - Non-standard Romanization
In addition to the standardized systems above, there are many variations in romanization, used either for simplification, in error or con...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Merchant Taylors' School: Encyclopedia Ii - Merchant Taylors' School - Present Day
The school continues to accept pupils based upon an entrance examination, sat when an applicant is either 11, 13 or 16. Over the years it...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exploding Toad: Encyclopedia Ii - Exploding Toad - Explanations
Berlin veterinarian Franz Mutschmann collected corpses and performed autopsies. From his work, it was determined that the phenomenon was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exploding Toad: Encyclopedia Ii - Exploding Toad - Description
According to worldwide media reports in late April 2005, numerous toads in the Altona district of Hamburg were observed by nature protect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Short Story: Encyclopedia Ii - Short Story - Length
Determining what exactly separates a short story from longer fictional formats is problematic. A classic definition of a short story is t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doric Dialect: Encyclopedia Ii - Doric Dialect - Origin Of The Name
The term "Doric" was used to refer to all dialects of Lowland Scots as a jocular reference to the Dorian dialect of Greek. The Greek Dori...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romanization Of Japanese: Encyclopedia Ii - Romanization Of Japanese - History
The earliest Japanese romanization system was based on the Portuguese language and its alphabet. It was developed around 1548 by a Japane...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Barnes & Noble Classics Collection: Encyclopedia Ii - Barnes & Noble Classics Collection - Children's Hardcover Collection
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain An...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - Famous Chickens
Chicken - Real chickens. Mike the Headless Chicken Chicken - Fictional chickens. Alecto and Galina, in Clemens Brentano's "The Tal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - Chickens As Pets
In Asia, chickens with striking plumage have long been kept for ornamental purposes, including feather-footed varieties such as the Cochi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - Chickens As Food
Chickens serve as one of the most common meats in the world, and are frequently prepared as food in a large number of ways. There is sign...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - Chickens In Agriculture
In the United States, chickens were once raised primarily on the family farm. Prior to about 1930, chicken was served for primarily on sp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - History
The first pictures of chickens in Europe are found on Corinthian pottery of the 7th century BC. The poet Cratinus (mid-5th century BC, ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - Chicken Diseases
Chickens are also susceptible to parasites, including lice, mites, ticks, fleas, and intestinal Worms. Chickenpox is a disease of humans,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - Chickens In Religion
In Indonesia the chicken has great significance during the Hindu cremation ceremony. A chicken is a channel for evil spirits which may be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talking Animal: Encyclopedia Ii - Talking Animal - Imitation Of Speech
The term may have a nearly literal meaning, by referring to animals which can imitate human speech, though not necessarily possessing an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talking Animal: Encyclopedia Ii - Talking Animal - An Animal Language
To take this literally, this would refer to certain species or groups of animals which have a pronounced way of vocal communication, henc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Short Story: Encyclopedia Ii - Short Story - Length
Determining what exactly separates a short story from longer fictional formats is problematic. A classic definition of a short story is t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - General Biology And Habitat
Male chickens are known as roosters (in the U.S., Canada and Australia), cockerels, or cocks. Female chickens are known as hens, or 'choo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Barnes & Noble Classics Collection: Encyclopedia Ii - Barnes & Noble Classics Collection - Cream Dustjacket Hardcover Collection
Most books that have Black Dustjackets were included in the Cream dustjacket collection. The only two known exceptions that are not in Cr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - Issues With Mass Production
Many animal advocates object to killing chickens for food or object to the factory farm conditions under which they are raised. Commercia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Short Story: Encyclopedia Ii - Short Story - Elements And Characteristics
Short stories tend to be less complex than novels. Usually, a short story will focus on only one incident, has a single plot, a single se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - Artificial Incubation
Chicken egg incubation can successfully occur artificially as well. Nearly all chicken eggs will hatch after 21 days of good conditions -...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicken: Encyclopedia Ii - Chicken - Going Broody
Sometimes a hen will stop laying and instead will focus on the incubation of eggs, a state that is commonly known as going broody. A broo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Short Story: Encyclopedia Ii - Short Story - Modern Short Stories
Modern short stories emerged as their own genre in the early 19th century. Early examples of short story collections include the Brothers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesop's Fables: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesop's Fables - Aesop
Main article: Aesop Aesop (from the Greek Aisopos), famous for his fables, was arguably a slave of African descent who had lived from ...   » Read the article