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Brewer's: Subvolvans

or Subvolvani. The antagonists of the Privolvans in Samuel Butler's satirical poem called The Elephant in the Moon. The gallant Subvolvani rally, And from their trenches make a sally.…

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…

1996 Olympic Equestrian Medalists

Event   Score Three-Day Event Blyth Tait, NZL 56.8   Sally Clark, NZL 60.4   Kerry Millikin, USA 73.7 Three-Day Event (Team) Australia 203.85   United…

Brewer's: High Tea

The meal called tea served with cold meats, vegetables, and pastry, in substitution of dinner. “A well-understood `high tea' should have cold roast beef at the top of the table, a cold…

Brewer's: War of the Meal-sacks

After the battle of Beder, Abu Sofian summoned two hundred fleet horsemen, each with a sack of meal at his saddle-bow (the scanty provision of an Arab…

Brewer's: Molly Mog

This celebrated beauty was an innkeeper's daughter, at Oakingham, Berks. She was the toast of all the gay sparks, in the former half of the eighteenth century, and died in 1766, at an…