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Andrew Motion, 1999 News

is named England's poet laureate in May, replacing Ted Hughes, who died in October. Motion's first official verse celebrated the marriage of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones.

Masaji Kiyokawa Biography

Masaji KiyokawaAge: 86 Olympic swimmer from Japan who won a gold medal in the 100m backstroke at the 1932 games in Los Angeles; served as vice president of the International Olympic Committee…

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…

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…

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: 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: 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: 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…