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Brewer's: Mignon

The young Italian girl who fell in love with Wilhelm Meister's apprentice, her protector. Her love not being returned, she became insane and died. (Goethe: Wilhelm Meister.) Source:…

Brewer's: Wilfrid

(St.). Patron saint of bakers, being himself of the craft. (634-709.) St. Wilfrid's Needle is a narrow passage in the crypt of Ripon cathedral…

Brewer's: Will not when They may

Those who will not when they may, when they will they shall have nay. “Qui ne prend le bien quand il peut, il ne l'a pas quand il veut…

Millennium Milestones

The 100 Most Significant Events of the Last Thousand Years Reducing the millennium to a laundry list of highlights cannot pretend to be a definitive or accurate exercise. Note that only…