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Giving Pledge Participants

The United States is home to roughly 40% of the world's billionaires. About 10% of America's richest citizens have committed to participate in the Giving Pledge and donate…

1995 College Basketball Recap

Final AP Top 25Major Conference ChampionsNCAA Tournament (64 teams)NIT Tournament (32 teams)Players of the YearCoaches of the YearConsensus All-America UCLA, a school long synonymous with the final…

Brewer's: Doctor Slop

An enthusiast, who thinks the world hinges on getting Uncle Toby to understand the action of a new medical instrument. (Sterne: Tristram Shandy.) A nickname given by William Hone to Sir…

Brewer's: Dorchester

As big as a Dorchester butt. Very corpulent, like the butts of Dorchester. Of Toby Filpot it is said: His breath-doors of life on a sudden were shut, And he died full as big as a…

Brewer's: Belch

Sir Toby Belch. A reckless, roistering, jolly knight of the Elizabethan period. (Shakespeare: Twelfth Night.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BelcherBel…

Brewer's: Penthesile'a

Queen of the Amazons, slain by Achilles. Sir Toby Belch says to Maria, in the service of Olivia “Good-night, Penthesilea [my fine woman].” Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, ii. 2. Source:…

Don Porter 1997 Deaths

Don Portertelevision and film actor played the widowed father of television's GidgetBorn: 1912Died: 1997Keith Piper1997 DeathsEleanor Prescott

Alfred Kazin 1998 Deaths

Alfred KazinAge: 83 noted author, critic, and cultural historian.Died: June 5, 1998.Constantine KaramanlisG - LHarold Keith