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2000 Season Review

A Year to Marvel and Mourn The inherent danger of the sport was very apparent in 2000 and overshadowed some impressive racing. The Winston Cup circuit, NHRA, and Craftsman Truck Series were…

Entertainment News from May 1998

1Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke marry in a candlelit ceremony at New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. They are expecting their first child in July. It is the first marriage for Hawke and…

Annual Awards: College Baseball, 1998 Season

CWS Seeds: 1. Florida (46-16); 2. Miami-FL (50-10); 3. Florida St. (53-18); 4. USC (44-16); 5. LSU (46-17); 6. Arizona St.(38-22); 7. Long Beach St. (41-21); 8. Mississippi St. (41-21).…

National League Roster

Starters (fan vote) CMike PiazzaNY Mets 1BMark McGwireSt. Louis 2BJay BellArizona SSBarry LarkinCincinnati 3BMatt WilliamsArizona OFSammy SosaChicago OFLarry WalkerColorado OFTony Gwynn*…

Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Women who fought for peace Malala Yousafzai accepts her Nobel Prize Source: AP Photo/Matt DunhamWomen's History Month Nobel Winning Scientists Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature…

April 2016: American Idol Takes its Final Bow

World News | Disasters & Science News Here's a slideshow depicting the major U.S. news events of April 2016. 1. Supreme Court Rules: One Person, One Vote 2. Villanova: NCAA Champions 3.…

Brewer's: Divorcement

A writing, or bill of divorcement. “Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement” (Matt. v. 31). Adalet tells in the Nineteenth Century (July, 1892, p. 137…

Brewer's: Hour

(Greek and Latin, hora.) At the eleventh hour. Just in time not to be too late; only just in time to obtain some benefit. The allusion is to the parable of labourers hired for the…

Brewer's: Persecutions

(The ten great). (1) Under Nero, A.D. 64; (2) Domitian, 95; (3) Trajan, 98; (4) Hadrian, 118; (5) Pertinax, 202, chiefly in Egypt; (6) Maximin, 236; (7) Decius, 249; (8) Valerian, 257; (9…

Brewer's: Light

Life. Othello says, “Put out the light and then put out the light.” In May, 1886, Abraham Harper, a market-gardener, of Oxford, hit his wife in the face, and threatened to “put her light…