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2000 Solheim Cup: Overall Records
Team and Individual match play combinedUnited States W-L-HKelly Robbins3-1-0Pat Hurt2-1-1Becky Iverson2-2-0Brandie Burton1-1-1Dottie Pepper1-1-1Julie Inkster1-2-1Meg Mallon1-2-1Rosie Jones1-…Brewer's: Balls
The three golden balls. The emblem of St. Nicholas, who is said to have given three purses of gold to three virgin sisters to enable them to marry. As the cognisance of the Medici family…Brewer's: Kriss Kringle
A sort of St. Nicholas (q.v.). On Christmas Eve Kriss Kringle, arrayed in a fur cap and strange apparel, goes to the bedroom of all good children, where he finds a stocking or sock hung up…Brewer's: John Bull
The national nickname for an Englishman, represented as a bluff, kindhearted, bull-headed farmer. The character is from a satire by Dr. Arbuthnot. In this satire the Frenchman is termed…1998–1999 Obie Awards
The 1998–1999 Obie Awards, honoring distinguished achievement in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions, were presented on May 17, 1999, at New York's Webster Hall.Best Production:…Brewer's: Creature-comforts
Food and other things necessary for the comfort of the body. Man being supposed to consist of body and soul, the body is the creature, but the soul is the “vital spark of heavenly flame…Brewer's: Do-the-Boys' Hall
A school where boys were taken in and done for by a Mr. Squeers, a puffing, ignorant, over-bearing brute, who starved them and taught them nothing. (Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby.) It is…Brewer's: Aqua Tofana
or Acqua Tofanica. A poisonous liquid much used in Italy in the seventeenth century by young wives who wanted to get rid of their husbands. It was invented by a woman named Tofana, who…Brewer's: Mæcenas
A patron of letters; so called from C. Cilnius Mæcenas, a Roman statesman in the reign of Augustus, who kept open house for all men of letters, and was the special friend and patron of…Brewer's: Noah's Wife
[Noraida], according to legend, was unwilling to go into the ark, and the quarrel between the patriarch and his wife forms a very prominent feature of Noah's Flood, in the Chester and…Trending
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