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Sistine Chapel

(Encyclopedia) Sistine ChapelSistine Chapelsĭsˈtēn [key] [for Sixtus IV], private chapel of the popes in Rome, one of the principal glories of the Vatican. Built (1473) under Pope Sixtus IV, it is…

John Keats: Ode to Psyche

by John Keats Ode on a Grecian UrnFancyOde to Psyche O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear, And pardon that thy secrets should…

Brewer's: All in all

He is all in all to me, that is, the dearest object of my affection. God shall be all in all means all creation shall be absorbed or gathered into God. The phrase is also used adverbially…

Brewer's: All Hallow's Day

(November 1st). The French call it. Toussaint , which we have translated All Saints' Day. Hallow-mas is All-Saints' festival. (Anglo-Saxon, hálig, but Hálig-mónáth was september, and Hálig…

Brewer's: Never

There are numerous locutions to express this idea; as- At the coming of the Coqueligrues (Rabelais: Pantagruel). At the Latter Lammas. (See Lammas.) On the Greek Calends (q.v.) In the…

John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale

by John Keats Ode on a Grecian UrnOde to a Nightingale My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the…

Significant Videos of 1998

AmistadThe ApostleAs Good As It GetsBoogie NightsThe Butcher BoyCan't Hardly WaitClockwatchersDeconstructing HarryDevil's AdvocateEnter the DragonEve's BayouFemale PerversionsThe Full MontyGood…

Brewer's: Paradise Lost

Satan rouses the panic-stricken host of fallen angels to tell them about a rumour current in Heaven of a new world about to be created. He calls a council to deliberate what should be done…

Albums

Check out some of Infoplease's archived notes on major album releases. Beck Sea Change The Blind Boys of Alabama Peter Wolf Eve (Music) Coldplay…

Home Video Library

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)Airplane! (1980)All About Eve (1950)Annie Hall (1977)Antonia's Line(1995)Apocalypse Now (1977)Bambi (1942)Ben-Hur (1959)Beauty and the Beast (1991)The Best…