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Mark Bavis 2001 Deaths
Mark BavisAge: 31 amateur scout with the L.A. Kings who was a passenger hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 that crashed into the World Trade Center; scouted college teams for the Kings and…Mark O'Brien Biography
Mark O'BrienAge: 49 author and poet. O'Brien, the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary Breathing Lessons, wrote by typing with a stick in his mouth. He lived in a 650-lb. iron…Gerald Marks 1997 Deaths
Gerald Marks Tin Pan Alley composer song credits include “All of Me” and “Is It True What They Say About Dixie?” Born: 1901Died: 1997Marie Marchowsky1997 DeathsDave MarrMark Belanger 1998 Deaths
Mark BelangerAge: 54 eight-time Gold Glove-winning shortstop with the Baltimore Orioles and key figure in the baseball players' union after his playing career ended in 1982; nicknamed “Blade…Mark McGwire, 1998 News
35, first-baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, beat out Chicago Cub Sammy Sosa in a heated race to break Roger Maris's season home-run record (61). Though the good-natured Sosa also topped…Brewer's: Marks of Gold and Silver
The date-mark on gold or silver articles is some letter of the alphabet indicating the year when the article was made. Thus, in the Goldsmith's Company of London:- From 1716 to 1755 it was…Brewer's: Marks in Grammar and Printing
Printers' marks on the first page of a sheet are called Signatures. (See Letters At Foot Of Page.) Serifs are the strokes which finish off Roman letters, top and bottom. A, B, C, are “…Brewer's: Moll Thomson's Mark
As “Take away this bottle, it has Moll Thomson's mark on it.” Moll Thomson is M. T. (empty). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MollyMoll Flanders A B C D…Brewer's: Lion of St. Mark
(See under Lion, heraldry.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Lion of the ReformationLion of God A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U…Brewer's: George, Mark, John
(SS.). Nostradamus wrote in 1566: Quand Georges Dieu crucifera, Que Marc le ressucitera, Et que St. Jean le portera, La fin du monde arrivera. In 1886 St. George's day fell on Good Friday…