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Thackeray, William Makepeace

(Encyclopedia) Thackeray, William MakepeaceThackeray, William Makepeacethăkˈərē [key], 1811–63, English novelist, b. Calcutta (now Kolkata), India. He is important not only as a great novelist but…

Entertainment News from March 2000

1For the first time in a dozen years, ABC wins the February sweeps. An average of 15.7 million viewers tuned in to the alphabet network each night. The network's dominance is largely…

Brewer's: Rome

Virgil says of Romulus, “Mavortia condet moenia, Romanosque suo de nomine dicet” (AEneid, i. 276). The words of the Sibyl, quoted by Servius, are Romulus is a diminutive or word of…

Entertainment News from August 2000

2Robert Downey Jr. is released from California state prison and immediately checks himself into a residential drug rehabilitation center.4Helen Hunt and Hank Azaria announce that they're…

Pittsburgh Pirates 2001 Roster By Statistics

Batting (135 AB)AvgABRHHRRBISBCraig Wilson*.310158274913323Brian Giles.309576116178379513Aramis Ramirez.30060383181341125Rob Mackowiak*.26621430574214Jason Kendall.26660684161105313Abraham…

Theodosius I

(Encyclopedia) Theodosius I or Theodosius the Great, 346?–395, Roman emperor of the East (379–95) and emperor of the West (394–95), son of Theodosius, the general of Valentinian I. He became (375)…

Rulers of the Roman Empire and the Roman Republic

Over a millennium of leadership (good and bad) Take me to the Kings | Take me to the Republic Leaders | Take me to the Emperors More than a millennium passed between the founding of Rome and the…

Other PBA Tournaments, 2006

Earl Anthony Medford Classic—Brian Himmler 214, Mika Koivuniemi 204Dick Weber Open—Jason Couch 241, Park Bohn III 214Motel 6 Phoenix Classic—Ritchie Allen 232, Del Ballard Jr. 207Jackson…

Madonna Biography

Madonna(Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone)singer, songwriter, actress, record producerBorn: 8/16/1958Birthplace: Bay City, Michigan Singer, songwriter, and actress whose eroticism,…