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Notable Women Adventurers

Louise Arner Boyd Quiz: Women Adventurers Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists Athletes Businesswomen Comediennes Congresswomen Educators…

Brewer's: Circumcised Brethren

(in Hudibras). They were Prynne, Bertie or Burton, and Bastwick, who lost their ears and had their noses slit for lampooning Henrietta Maria and the bishops. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…

Brewer's: Pillory

The following eminent men have been put in the pillory for literary offences:- Leighton, for tracts against Charles I.; Lilburn, for circulating the tracts of Dr. Bastwick; Bastwick, for…

Brewer's: King of Misrule

Sometimes called LORD, and sometimes ABBOT, etc. At Oxford and Cambridge one of the Masters of Arts superintended both the Christmas and Candlemas sports, for which he was allowed a fee of…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Charles I Scene 3

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Scene 2: A Chamber in Whitehall. Scene 4: Scene 3: The Star Chamber [1] Laud, Juxon, Strafford, and others, as judges. Prynne as a prisoner, and then Bastwick. LAUD…

Johnson, Samuel, English author

(Encyclopedia) Johnson, Samuel, 1709–84, English author, b. Lichfield. The leading literary scholar and critic of his time, Johnson helped to shape and define the Augustan Age. He was equally…

1999 Bowl Championship Series Rankings

Nov. 22: Florida State in First Place by Gerry Brown Related Links Dec. 6 RankingsNov. 22 RankingsBowl Championship Series1998 RankingsCollege FootballThe Bowl Championship series rankings, new…

1999 Bowl Championship Series Rankings

Nov. 29: Virginia Tech Virtually Locked In by Gerry Brown Related Links Dec. 6 RankingsNov. 22 RankingsBowl Championship Series1998 RankingsCollege FootballVirginia Tech, thanks to their…

1999 Bowl Championship Series Rankings

December 6: Florida State & Virginia Tech in Sugar Bowl by Gerry Brown Related Links Dec. 6 RankingsNov. 22 RankingsBowl Championship Series1998 RankingsCollege FootballIn its second year of…