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America's Most Endangered Places 2003

Eleven historic sites in danger of being lost forever In a report released in late May 2003, the National Trust for Historic Preservation (www.nationaltrust.org ) listed 11 historic sites across…

Michelangelo Buonarroti

(Encyclopedia) Michelangelo BuonarrotiMichelangelo Buonarrotimīkəlănˈjəlō, Ital. mēkālänˈjālō bwōnär-rôˈtē [key], 1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, b. Caprese, Tuscany.…

Augustus

(Encyclopedia) AugustusAugustusôgŭsˈtəs, əgŭsˈ– [key], 63 b.c.–a.d. 14, first Roman emperor, a grandson of the sister of Julius Caesar. Named at first Caius Octavius, he became on adoption by the…

Brutus X

Brutus X24 January 1788by BrutusSee also Federalist No. 25To the People of the State of New-York.The liberties of a people are in danger from a large standing army, not only because the…

Acts: 27

Acts Chapter 27 1 And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band.…

Cabinet Members Under Truman

Secretary of State E. R. Stettinius, Jr. (Cont.)James F. Byrnes, 1945George C. Marshall, 1947Dean Acheson, 1949Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (Cont.)Frederick M. Vinson,…

Brewer's: Loose-girt Boy

(The). Julius Caesar was so nicknamed. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Loose-strifeLoose Fish A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U…

1998 Gramophone Awards

Record of the Year and ChoralMartin, Pizzetti, Die Schöpfung, Westminster Cathedral Choir/James O'Donnell (Hyperion)Editor's ChoiceThomas Adès, Adès: Arcadiana Op. 12. The origin of the harp…

Brewer's: Cast into One's Teeth

(To). To throw a reproof at one. The allusion is to knocking one's teeth out by stones. All my faults observed, set in a note book, Learned and conned by rote, to cast into my teeth.…