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Brewer's: Roque Guinart

A famous robber, whose true name was Pédro Rocha Guinarda, leader of los Nicerros, which, with the los Cadelles, levied heavy contributions on all the mountain districts of Catalonia in…

Black Baseball Players

Notable African-American Baseball Players     Satchel Paige Browse more African-American biographies by category: A-Z List Government Officials Civil Rights Leaders…

United They Stand

D.C. United poised to take 3rd Major League Soccer Cup by Mike Morrison Major League Soccer Cup Sunday, Nov. 21, 1999 Foxboro (Mass.) Stadium 1:30 PM (E.S.T) on ABC Halftime Performer: Christina…

"Open" for Business — Tennis (1968)

Related Links NFL Digest of RulesOfficial NBA RulesRules of Major League BaseballFIFA Laws of the GameRules of Tennis Cause: Tennis was split between two parties - amateurs and professionals - and…

The Celtic Twilight: "And Fair, Fierce Women"

by W. B. Yeats Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, VeniEnchanted Woods"And Fair, Fierce Women" One day a woman that I know came face to face with heroic beauty, that highest beauty which Blake says…

George Harrison 2001 Deaths

George HarrisonAge: 58musician lead guitarist for the Beatles, Harrison died in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer. “He left this world as he lived in it, conscious of God, fearless…

Brewer's: Faineant

Les Rois Fainéants (the cipher or puppet kings). Clovis II. and his ten successors were the puppet kings of the Palace Mayors. Louis V. (last of the Carlovingian dynasty) received the same…

Brewer's: Flaming

Superb, captivating, attractive. The French flambant. This word was originally applied to those persons who dressed themselves in rich dresses “flaming” with gold and silver thread. We now…

Brewer's: Meg

Mons Meg. An old-fashioned piece of artillery in the castle of Edinburgh, made at Mons, in Flanders. It was considered a palladium by the Scotch. (See Long Meg.) “Sent awa' our crown, and…

Brewer's: Rashleigh Osbaldistone

An accomplished but deceitful villain, called “the scholar.” He is the youngest of the six hopeful sons of Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone. The six brothers were nicknamed “the sot,” “the…