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Limbourg brothers

(Encyclopedia) Limbourg brothersLimbourg brotherslăNb&oomacr;rˈ [key], fl. 1380–1416, family of Franco-Flemish manuscript illuminators. The Limbourg brothers, Pol, Jan, and Herman, were trained…

Marx Brothers

(Encyclopedia) Marx Brothers, team of American movie comedians. The members were Julius (1890?–1977), known as Groucho; Arthur (1888?–1964), originally Adolph and known as Harpo; Leonard (1887?–1961…

Nicholas Brothers

(Encyclopedia) Nicholas Brothers, African-American tap dance team consisting of Fayard Antonio Nicholas, 1914–2006, b. Mobile, Ala., and Harold Lloyd Nicholas, 1921–2000, b. Winston-Walem, N.C.…

Babbitt, Natalie

(Encyclopedia) Babbitt, Natalie, 1932–2016, American children's book author and illustrator, b. Dayton, Ohio, as Natalie Zane Moore, grad. Smith College, 1954. She illustrated The Forty-Ninth…

Michael G. GRIMM, Congress, NY (1970)

GRIMM Michael G. , A Representative from New York; born in New York, New York County, N.Y., February 7, 1970; graduated from Archbishop Molloy High School, Briarwood, New York, 1988; B.B.A, Baruch…

The Wright Brothers Centennial

A Century of Flight The Wright Brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk Wilbur and Orville Wright with their second powered machine; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio Orville Wright, Major John F.…

The Unknown Marx Brothers

Fox Lorber; $19.98Documentary; NR Ever wonder how the Marx Brothers got their names? This fond remembrance of the fraternal comedians reveals the story behind their monikers and much more…

Brewer's: Lay Brothers

Men not in orders received into the convents and bound by vows. (Greek, laos, people.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Lay FiguresLawyer's Bags A B C D E…

Brewer's: Sworn Brothers

“in the Old English law, were persons who by mutual oath covenanted to share each other's fortune.” (Burrill.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Sworn at…

Brewer's: Brother German

A real brother. (Latin, germanus, of the same stock; germen, a bud or sprout.) “Te in germani fratris dilexi loco.” —Terence Andria, I. 5, 58. A uterine brother is a brother by the mother'…