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Brewer's: Chant du Depart

After the Marseillaise, the most celebrated song of the first French Revolution. It was written by M. J. Chénier for a public festival, held June 11th, 1794, to commemorate the taking of…

Brewer's: Gargantuan

Enormous, inordinate, great beyond all limits. It needed 900 ells of Châtelleraut linen to make the body of his shirt, and 200 more for the gussets; for his shoes 406 ells of blue and…

New Impressions

New ImpressionsAt three o'clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice may be seen on the Promenade des Anglais—a charming place, for the wide walk, bordered with palms, flowers…

Brewer's: Fairies

good and bad. AFREET or EFREET, one of the Jinn tribe, of which there are five. (See Story of the Second Calendar.) APPARITION. A ghost. ARIEL. (See Ariel.) BANSHEE or BENSHEE, an Irish…

Helena Christensen Biography

Helena Christensenmodel, actressBorn: 12/25/1968Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark Top international model who made the jump to film with a starring role in the British film, Inferno (1992). The…

Reese Witherspoon Biography

Reese Witherspoon (Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon)actressBorn: 3/22/1976Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana Witherspoon made critically acclaimed television and feature film debuts in 1991, with…

2012 Top 10 Most Played Songs

The following table lists the title and artist of the top ten most played songs in the United States during 2012. Rank Song Artist1. Somebody That I…