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Hildegard Knef 2002 Deaths
Hildegard KnefAge: 76 German actress and smoky-voiced singer who earned fame in the U.S. for her performance as a Soviet commissar in Cole Porter's Silk Stockings. She starred opposite…Vladimir Kondrashin Biography
Vladimir KondrashinAge: 70 coach of the Soviet Union men's basketball team that won a disputed gold medal victory over the United States team in 1972; coached the U.S.S.R. to a world…Stephen Crane: And yet I have seen thee happy with me.
And yet I have seen thee happy with me. I am no fool To poll stupidly into iron. I have heard your quick breaths And seen your arms writhe toward me; At those times —God help us— I was…Kenneth Koch 2002 Deaths
Kenneth KochAge: 77 poet, novelist, and playwright who, with John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara, created the New York school of poets in the 1950s. He wrote more than 20 volumes of poetry, and his…Edward Knipling 2000 Deaths
Edward KniplingAge: 90 U.S. government entomologist who devised a technique to sterilize male screwworms, essentially eradicating the insect and saving livestock from a fatal plague. Knipling…Brewer's: Shield
The Gold and Silver Shield. Two knights coming from different directions stopped in sight of a trophy shield, one side of which was gold and the other silver. Like the disputants about the…Brewer's: King Ryence
of North Wales, sent a dwarf to King Arthur to say “he had overcome eleven kings, all of which paid him homage in this sort viz. they gave him their beards to purfell his mantle. He now…Brewer's: Esquire
One who carried the escu or shield of a knight. (Latin, scutiger, a shield-bearer.) Copy of a letter from C. H. ATHILL, ESQ., “Richmond Herald ”: “Herald's College, E.C., January 26th 1893…Brewer's: Herald's College
consists of three kings-of-arms, six heralds, and four pursuivants. The head of the college is called the Earl Marshal of England. The three kings-of-arms are Garter (blue), Clarencieux…Brewer's: Gyneth
Natural daughter of Guendolen and King Arthur. Arthur swore to Guendolen that if she brought forth a boy, he should be his heir, and if a girl, he would give her in marriage to the bravest…Trending
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