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Brewer's: Spun

(To be) Exhausted, undone, ruined. I shall be spun. There is a voice within Which tells me plainly I am all undone; For though I toil not, neither do I spin, I shall be spun. Robert Murray…

2000 Gramophone Awards

The 2000 Gramophone Awards were published in the December 2000 issue of the magazine.Orchestral (Record of the Year)Mahler, Symphony No 10 in F sharp, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon…

Brewer's: Good Regent

James Stewart, Earl of Murray, appointed Regent of Scotland after the imprisonment of Queen Mary. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Good SamaritanGood…

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…

The Prize

The winnings, the winners by Beth Rowen The Winnings Each winner of a Nobel Prize, which can go to individuals and institutions, takes home a medal, a diploma, and cash, which varies…

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, established in 1980, annually honors an American fiction writer with a $15,000 prize. Three judges choose five finalists before…

Brewer's: Este

The house of Este had for their armorial bearing a white eagle on an azure shield. Rinaldo, in Jerusalem Delivered, adopted this device; and Ariosto, in his Orlando Furioso, gives it both…

Brewer's: Libel

means a little book (Latin, libellus). A lampoon, a satire, or any defamatory writings. Originally it meant a plaintiff's statement of his case, which usually “defames” the defendant. The…