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Brewer's: Pope's Sermon

(A). Only once has a pope been known to preach a sermon in three hundred years. In 1847 a great crowd had assembled to hear the famous Padre Ventura preach in Santa Andrea della Valle, of…

Women's Olympic Swimming: 200-meter Butterfly

200-meter Butterfly Find the Olympic gold-medal times for the women's 200-meter Butterfly swimming competition from 1968 to the present. Year Time 1968 Ada Kok, NED 2:24.7 OR1972 Karen Moe…

Tour de France

The 86th Tour de France (July 3-25) ran 20 stages plus a prologue, covering 2,287 miles starting in Puy-du-Fou, passing through the Alps and the Pyrenees and finishing on the Avenue des…

Brewer's: Aldine Editions

Editions of the Greek and Latin classics, published and printed under the superintendence of Aldo Manuzio, his father-in-law Andrea of Asolo, and his son Paolo (1490–1597); most of them in…

1990 Gramophone Awards

Benjamin BrittenArchive PhotosJohann Sebastian BachArchive PhotosBaroque VocalBach, St. Matthew Passion, John Eliot Gardiner conducting Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists (Archiv)…

Brewer's: Merry Andrew

So called from Andrew Borde, physician to Henry VIII., etc. To vast learning he added great eccentricity, and in order to instruct the people used to address them at fairs and other…

Brewer's: Father of his Country

Cicero was so entitled by the Roman senate. They offered the same title to Marius, but he refused to accept it. Several of the Cæsars were so called—Julius, after quelling the insurrection…

Notable Female Athletes

Martina Hingis Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists Athletes Businesswomen Comediennes Congresswomen Educators and Scholars Fashion Designers and Models…

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