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Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold

The Price of Beauty There are a lot of reasons for the incredible price tags on artwork. The commissioning and purchasing of artwork has been a major status symbol for the wealthy for all of…

2003 MTV Music Video Awards

The 2003 Video Music Awards were presented August 28, 2003.Video of the YearMissy Elliott, “Work It”Male VideoJustin Timberlake, “Cry Me a River”Female VideoBeyonce Knowles, “Crazy in Love”…

Works on the Upanishads

Works on the UpanishadsAnquetil Duperron, Oupnek'hat, 1801, 1802. See page clii.Rammohun Roy, Translation of Several Principal Books, Passages, and Texts of the Veds. Second edition. London,…

Brewer's: Francesca

A Venetian maiden, daughter of Minotti, governor of Corinth. She loved Alp, and tried to restore him to his country and faith; but, as he refused to recant, gave him up, and died broken-…

Brewer's: Francis's Distemper

(St.). Impecuniosity; being moneyless. Those of the Order of St. Francis were not allowed to carry any money about them. “I saw another case of gentlemen of St. Francis's distemper.” —…

Brewer's: La Garde Meurt ne se Rend pas

The words falsely ascribed to General Cambronne, at the battle of Waterloo; inscribed on his monument at Nantes. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894La…

1996 Outer Critics Circle Awards

The 46th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were presented on May 24, 1996, at New York's venerable Sardi's restaurant. The Outer Critics Circle includes theater writers who review New York…

Brewer's: D.T.

A contraction of delirium tremens. “They get a look, after a touch of D.T., which nothing else that I know of can give them” —Indian Tale. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…