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Brewer's: Cheap Jack

Jack, the chap-man. Not cheap, meaning low-priced, but cheap meaning merchant, as in “chapman,” “Cheap-side,” etc. Jack is a term applied to inferior persons, etc. (Saxon, cepa, a merchant…

Significant Recordings of 2000

Backstreet Boys Badlands—A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska — Various ArtistsBarenaked LadiesThe BeatlesBilly Bragg & WilcoTracy ChapmanCommonSteve…

John, king of England

(Encyclopedia) John, 1167–1216, king of England (1199–1216), son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. John, though often cruel and treacherous, was an excellent administrator, much concerned…

John Brooke

John Brooke"Wake up, Demi, dear! I want you." "Why, I've just gone to bed; it can't be morning yet;" and Demi blinked like a little owl as he waked from his first sound sleep. "It's only ten…

John DeWitt I

John DeWitt I22 October 1787by John DeWittTo the Free Citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.Whoever attentively examines the history of America, and compares it with that of other…

Snow, John

ex-secretary of the TreasuryBirthplace: Toledo, OhioBorn: 8/2/39