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NHL Hockey Assist Leaders By Year

Multiple Winners: Wayne Gretzky (16); Bobby Orr (5); Adam Oates, Frank Boucher, Bill Cowley, Phil Esposito, Gordie Howe, Jaromir Jagr, Elmer Lach, Mario Lemieux, Stan Mikita and Joe Primeau…

Fall Film Preview, 1998, Part 4

Pixar hopes for another special-effects coup with A Bug's Life. Adam Sandler portrays another hapless hero in Touchstone's The Water Boy. Colonies of another kind — those inhabited by ants —…

Brewer's: Barry Cornwall

poet. A nom de plume of Bryan Waller Procter. It is an anagram of his name. (1788–1874.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BarsaniansBarristers' Gowns A B C…

Brewer's: Bible Christians

A Protestant sect founded in 1815 by William O'Bryan, a Wesleyan, of Cornwall; also called Bryanites (3 syl.). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Bible-…

Brewer's: Paper

So called from the papyrus or Egyptian reed used at one time for the manufacture of a writing material. Bryan Donkin, in 1803, perfected a machine for making a sheet of paper to any…

CART Results: Money Leaders

FINAL 1999 Earnings 1Juan Montoya$1,973,0002Dario Franchitti1,356,7503Paul Tracy978,5004Michael Andretti775,0005Adrian Fernandez706,7506Max Papis675,0007Christian Fittipaldi611,7508Gil de…

Members of Congress: Georgia, Congress, GA

Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Georgia Member Name Birth-Death ABBOT, Joel 1776-1826 ADAMSON, William Charles 1854-1929 ALFORD, Julius Caesar 1799-1863…

Brewer's: Beau

Beau Brummel. George Bryan. (1778-1840.) Le Beau D'Orsay. Father of Count D'Orsay, and called by Byron Jeune Cupidon. Beau Fielding, called “Handsome Fielding” by Charles II., whose name…