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Swimming Records, 1997-1998: Water Polo
The 8th FINA World Championships in swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo held in Perth, Australia (Jan. 7-18). Note that (CR) indicates course record.Final Medal Standings…2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Awards ranging from journalism to fiction to music Related Links Pulitzer Prizes Joseph Pulitzer Biography Book, Magazine, and…Brewer's: Gray Cloak
An alderman above the chair; so called because his proper costume is a cloak furred with gray amis. (Hutton: New View of London, intro.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Dulcinea
A lady-love. Taken from Don Quixote's amie du coeur. Her real name was Aldonza Lorenzo, but the knight dubbed her Dulcinea del Toboso. “I must ever have some Dulcinea in my head—it…Brewer's: Bosom Friend
(A ). A very dear friend. Nathan says, “It lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.” (2 Sam. xii. 3.) Bosom friend, amie du cur. St. John is represented in the New Testament as…Brewer's: Friend of Man
Marquis de Mirabeau. So called from one of his works, L'Ami des Hommes (5 vols.). This was the father of the great Mirabeau, called by Barnave “the Shakespeare of eloquence.” (1715-1789…Brewer's: Friends ... Enemies
Our friends the enemy. When, on April 1, 1814, the allied armies entered Paris, Sir George Jackson tells us he heard a viva pass along the streets, and the shout “nos amis, nos ennemis…February 2010 Current Events: U.S. News
World News | Business News | Science/Disasters News Here are the key events in United States news for the month of…Literary Allusions
Boswell: James Boswell (1740–95) is best known for his 1791 book The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., considered by many to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. His name is…Swimming–Women: 100-meter Butterfly
1956 Shelley Mann, United States 1:11.00 1960 Carolyn Schuler, United States 1:09.50…Trending
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