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2010 Year in Review - Diplomacy
Major World News Stories of 2010 Julian Assange Related Links Julian Assange Biography 2010 Year in Review 2010 News of the Nation 2010 People in the News…Stoppard, Tom
(Encyclopedia) Stoppard, Tom, 1937–, English playwright, b. Zlín, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic), as Tomas Straussler. During his childhood he and his family moved to Singapore, later (…Brewer's: Forgive, blest Shade
This very celebrated epitaph is in Brading churchyard, Isle of Wight, and is attributed to Mrs. Anne Steele (Theodosia), daughter of a Baptist minister of Bristol, but was touched up by…Brewer's: Tirer une Dent
To draw a man's tooth, or extort money from him. The allusion is to the tale told by Holinshed of King John, who extorted 10,000 marks from a Jew living at Bristol by extracting a tooth…Brewer's: Brittany
The damsel of Brittany. Eleanora, daughter of Geoffrey, second son of Henry II., King of England and Duke of Brittany. At the death of Prince Arthur she was the real heir to the crown, but…Brewer's: Allworthy
in Fielding's Tom Jones, is designed for the author's friend, Ralph Allen, of Bristol. Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Pope:…Brewer's: Rowley
(Thomas). The fictitious priest of Bristol, said by Chatterton to have been the author of certain poems which he (Chatterton) published. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…The True George Washington: Tastes and Amusements: Food
FoodIn food Washington took what came with philosophy. "If you meet with collegiate fare, it will be unmanly to complain," he told his grandson, though he once complained in camp that "we are…Brewer's: Lady of the Haystack
made her appearance in 1776 at Bourton, near Bristol. She was young and beautiful, graceful, and evidently accustomed to good society. She lived for four years in a haystack; but was…Brewer's: Wans Dyke
Sir Richard Colt Hoare tells us, was a barrier erected by the Belgae against the Celts, and served as a boundary between these tribes. Dr. Stukeley…Trending
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