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Cabot, John

(Encyclopedia) Cabot, John, fl. 1461–98, English explorer, probably b. Genoa, Italy. He became a citizen of Venice in 1476 and engaged in the Eastern trade of that city. This experience, it is…

William Shakespeare: Henry V, Act III, Scene II

Scene IIThe sameEnter Nym, Bardolph, Pistol, and BoyBardolphOn, on, on, on, on! to the breach, to the breach!NymPray thee, corporal, stay: the knocks are too hot; and, for mine own part, I…

John Kennedy, Jr., 1997 News

withdrew from the Massachusetts gubernatorial race in the wake of publicity surrounding his request for an annulment of his first marriage and accusations that his younger brother Michael…

Jose Canseco, 2005 News

professional baseball player, put major league baseball in the spotlight with the February publication of Juiced. In the controversial tell-all memoir he unapologetically detailed his use of…

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Chapter 3

by Oscar Wilde Chapter 2Chapter 4Chapter 3 At half-past twelve next day Lord Henry Wotton strolled from Curzon Street over to the Albany to call on his uncle, Lord Fermor, a genial if…

Sean Combs, 2001 News

(Puff Daddy), entertainment mogul, was acquitted in a Manhattan court in March of four counts of illegal possession of a gun and one count of bribery. The charges stemmed from a December 1999…

Brother's Keeper

ABCFriday 9:30–10:00 p.m.Cast:William Ragsdale, Justin Cooper, Sean O'Bryan and Bess Meyer Single dad English professor Porter Wade (Ragsdale) thought he had his hands full with his 8-year-…

Little Faithful

Little FaithfulFor a week the amount of virtue in the old house would have supplied the neighborhood. It was really amazing, for everyone seemed in a heavenly frame of mind, and self-denial…