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Barbier, Antoine Alexandre
(Encyclopedia) Barbier, Antoine AlexandreBarbier, Antoine AlexandreäNtwänˈ älĕksäNˈdrə bärbyāˈ [key], 1765–1825, French bibliographer and government librarian. Barbier was one of a committee…King Horn
(Encyclopedia) King Horn, probably the earliest English-language romance, written c.1250 and containing about 1,500 lines. It is by an anonymous author and is based on an earlier work in French.…Everyman
(Encyclopedia) Everyman, late-15th-century English morality play. It is the counterpart of the Dutch play Elckerlijk; which of these anonymous plays is the original has been the subject of…Higden, Ranulf
(Encyclopedia) Higden, Ranulf, d. c.1364, English chronicler. He wrote the Polychronicon, a universal history, interesting chiefly for its display of the geographical, scientific, and historical…Cursor Mundi
(Encyclopedia) Cursor MundiCursor Mundikûrˈsôr mŭnˈdī [key], a long religious epic in Middle English relating the history of the world as recorded in the Old and New Testaments. This anonymous poem (…Guy of Warwick
(Encyclopedia) Guy of WarwickGuy of Warwickwŏrˈĭk [key], English legendary hero, popularized by an anonymous 14th-century rhymed romance. Guy won the earl of Warwick's daughter and saved England from…chapbook
(Encyclopedia) chapbook, one of the pamphlets formerly sold in Europe and America by itinerant agents, or “chapmen.” Chapbooks were inexpensive—in England often costing only a penny—and, like the…compulsive gambling
(Encyclopedia) compulsive gambling or pathological gambling, a psychological disorder characterized by a persistent inability to resist the impulse to gamble. The disorder is progressive and…Brewer's: British Lion
(The). The pugnacity of the British nation, as opposed to the John Bull, which symbolises the substantiality, solidity, and obstinacy of the people, with all their prejudices and national…Women's British Open
Edition:9thDates:Aug. 8–11Site:Turnberry GC, Turnberry, WalesPar:36-36—72 (6479 yards)Purse:$1,500,000 1 234TotEarnings1Karrie Webb66-71-70-66—273$263,3832Michelle Ellis69-70-68-68—275129,…Trending
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