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Brewer's: Ferdinand

Son of the King of Naples, and suitor of Miranda, daughter of Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan. (Shakespeare Tempest.) In Love's Labour's Lost, the same name is given to the King of…

Brewer's: Yves

(St.) (1 syl.). Patron saint of lawyers, being himself a lawyer. As he used his knowledge of the law in defending the oppressed, he is called in Brittany “the poor man's advocate.”…

Entertainment Bios — M

Bernie MacRalph MacchioAndie MacDowellMattew MacfadyenAli MacGrawKyle MacLachlanShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayPeter MacNicolElle MacphersonWilliam H. MacyAmy MadiganMadonnaAnn MagnusonTobey…

NCAA/NIT Tournament Teams

(In alphabetical order) Before TournsHead CoachFinal RecordArkansas16–8Eugene Lambert17–9Bowling Green22–3Harold Anderson24–4DePaul18–3Ray Meyer21–3Kentucky21–3Adolph Rupp22–4Muhlenberg24–…

More Movies

The Apostle Director/Writer: Robert DuvallDirector of Photography: Barry MarkowitzEditor: Stephen MackMusic: David MansfieldProduction Designer: Linda BurtonProducer: Rob Carliner October Films…

The Supreme Court: Confessing Illegally

Confessing IllegallyThe Supreme CourtArresting RulesLimiting Forced MedicationConfessing Illegally Tossing out a confession at trial can frequently result in the loss of a conviction, so…

The Solar System

  Comet Hale-Bopp Triton The Flap Over Pluto New Uranian Moons Discovered A Richter Scale for Close Encounter Asteroids Caliban and Sycorax Ultraviolet Death May Follow Asteroid Devastation…

Fuller, Margaret

(Encyclopedia) Fuller, Margaret, 1810–50, American writer, lecturer, and public intellectual, b. Cambridgeport (now part of Cambridge), Mass. She was one of the most influential personalities in the…

Tripolitan War

(Encyclopedia) Tripolitan WarTripolitan Wartrĭpŏlˈĭtən [key], 1800–1815, conflict between the United States and the Barbary States. Piracy had become a normal source of income in the N African…