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Final AP Top 25 Poll for College Football's 1998-99 Season
Voted on by panel of 70 sportswriters & broadcasters and released on Jan. 5, 1999, following the Fiesta Bowl: winning team receives the Bear Bryant Trophy, given since 1983; first place votes in…Brewer's: Orsin
One of the leaders of the rabble that attacked Hudibras at a bear-baiting. He was “famous for wise conduct and success in war.” Joshua Gosling, who kept the bears ât “Paris Garden,” in…Brewer's: Silver-Tongued
William Bates, the Puritan divine. (1625-1699.) Anthony Hammond, the poet, called Silver-tongue. (1668-1738.) Henry Smith, preacher. (1550-1600.) Joshua Sylvester, translator of Du Bartas…Brewer's: Babylonish Garment
(A) Babylonica vestis, a garment woven with divers colours. (Pliny, viii. 74.) “I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment.” —Joshua vii. 21. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Bruin
One of the leaders arrayed against Hudibras. He was Talgol, a Newgate butcher, who obtained a captain's commission for valour at Naseby. He marched next Orsin (Joshua Gosling, landlord of…Brewer's: Cities
Cities of Refuge. Moses, at the command of God, set apart three cities on the east of Jordan, and Joshua added three others on the west, whither any person might flee for refuge who had…Brewer's: Nine Worthies
Joshua, David, and Judas & Maccabaeus;; Hector, Alexander, and Julius & Caesar;; Arthur, Charlemagne, and Godfrey of Bouillon. Nine worthies were they called, of different rites-…Brewer's: Seasons
(The). In art. The four seasons have often been sculptured or painted by artists: POUSSIN drew his symbolic characters from the Old Testament. Thus, Adam and Eve in Paradise represent…Brewer's: Luz
or Luez .The indestructible bone; the nucleus of the resurrection body. “`How doth a man revive again in the world to come?' asked Hadrian; and Joshua Ben Hananiah made answer. `From luz…2006
Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has recognized journalists, writers, and public figures who pursue social injustice and public policy for the common good. Book Robert Kuttner, The…Trending
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