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2001 Tennis Doubles Finals Wimbledon Winners

Men—#3 Jiri Novak & David Rikl def. #4 Donald Johnson & Jared Palmer 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6). Women—#1 Lisa Raymond & Rennae Stubbs def. #9 Kim Clijsters & Ai Sugiyama 6-4, 6-3.…

Biographies: Archaeologists

ArchaeologistsPeople in the NewsRecent ObituariesBiographies by CategoryBelzoni, Giovanni Battista, Italian adventurer and antiquities dealer Bent, James Theodore, English explorer and…

Men: College Soccer, 1997-98 Season

The combined 1997 first team All-America selections of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) and the 11 Soccer America MVPs. Holdovers from the combined 1996 All-America…

Sir Anthony Glyn 1998 Deaths

Sir Anthony Glyn (Geoffrey Leo Simon Davson)author unconventionally spirited British author of several novels and biographies, including one about Elinor Glyn, his libertine grandmother for…

The Devil's Dictionary: Leonine

by Ambrose Bierce LEGACYLETTUCELEONINE -adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous…

papacy

(Encyclopedia) CE5 papacypapacypāˈpəsē [key], office of the pope, head of the Roman Catholic Church. He is pope by reason of being bishop of Rome and thus, according to Roman Catholic belief,…

Bill Rigney 2001 Deaths

Bill RigneyAge: 83 first manager of the San Francisco Giants, succeeding Leo Derocher in 1956; won World Series as an infielder with the N.Y. Giants in 1951 and as a coach in 1954; managed…

Leonardo DiCaprio Biography

Leonardo DiCaprio actorBorn: 11/11/1974Birthplace: Los Angeles Known worldwide by his young fans as “Leo”, this modern-day Romeo catapulted to megastardom after his role in Titanic (1997),…

26th Lambda Literary Awards

The 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards were for books published in 2013. Winners were announced during a ceremony on June 2, 2014…

Mass Market Paperback

Source: Publishers Weekly. For One More Day, Mitch Albom Cross, James Patterson Dear John, Nicholas Sparks Next, Michael…