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Seeger, Pete

(Encyclopedia) Seeger, Pete (Peter Seeger), 1919–2014, American folksinger, composer, and environmentalist, b. New York City. Seeger, a son of musicologist Charles Seeger and violinist Constance…

Oscar Trivia

by Beth Rowen Meryl Streep Source: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Related Links Minority Oscar Winners Slideshow Movie Timeline More Movie Awards   Films that won…

Black Football Players

Notable African-American Track and Field Athletes   Browse more African-American biographies by category: A-Z List Government Officials…

Black Baseball Players

Notable African-American Baseball Players     Satchel Paige Browse more African-American biographies by category: A-Z List Government Officials Civil Rights Leaders…

Brewer's: Beaumontague

[pronounce bo-mon-taig ]. Bad work, especially ill-fitting carpenter's work; literary padding; paste and scissors literature; so called from putty used by carpenters, etc., for filling up…

Brewer's: Bleed

To make a man bleed is to make him pay dearly for something; to victimise him. Money is the life-blood of commerce. It makes my heart bleed. It makes me very sorrowful. She found them…

Brewer's: Bogie

A scarecrow, a goblin. (Bulgarian, bog, a god; Salvonic, bogu; Welsh, bwg, a goblin, our bugbear.) The Assyrian mothers used to scare their children with the name of Narsës (Gibbon); the…

Brewer's: Nosnot-Bocai

[Bo-ky ]. Prince of Purgatory. Purgatory is the “realm of Nosnot-Bocai.” Sir, I last night received command To see you out of Fairy land, Into the realm of Nosnot-Bocai; But let not fear…