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Year in Review, 2000: The Year in Music

by Kevin O'Hare QUICK POLL What was your favorite album of 2000? U2, All That You Can't Leave Behind PJ Harvey, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea Radiohead, Kid A Eminem,…

Salzburg

(Encyclopedia) SalzburgSalzburgzältsˈb&oobreve;rk [key], province (1991 pop. 482,365), c.2,760 sq mi (7,150 sq km), W central Austria, bordering Germany in the north and northwest. It is a…

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich

(Encyclopedia) Pasternak, Boris LeonidovichPasternak, Boris Leonidovichpăsˈtərnăkˌ, Rus. bərēsˈ lyāˌənyēˈdəvĭch pəstyĭrnäkˈ [key], 1890–1960, Russian poet and translator. Pasternak became an…

Jacobins

(Encyclopedia) JacobinsJacobinsjăkˈəbĭnz [key], political club of the French Revolution. Formed in 1789 by the Breton deputies to the States-General, it was reconstituted as the Society of Friends of…

Cologne

(Encyclopedia) Cologne Cologne kəlōnˈ [key], Ger. Köln, city (2021 est. metro area pop. 1,129,…

Cato I

Cato IThursday, September 27, 1787by For the New York Journal.To the Citizens of the State of New York: The Convention, who sat at Philadelphia, have at last delivered to Congress that…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Musketaquid

MusketaquidBecause I was content with these poor fields, Low, open meads, slender and sluggish streams, And found a home in haunts which others scorned, The partial wood-gods overpaid my love…

John Donne: Expostulation XVII. Nunc lento

ExpostulationJohn Donne MY God, my God, is this one of thy ways of drawing light out of darkness, to make him for whom this bell tolls, now in this dimness of his sight, to become a…

Fenway Park Turns One Hundred

In 2012, one of Major League Baseball's most beloved ballparks celebrates its centennial.   Fenway Park Photo by Carol M. Highsmith Related Links Fenway Park 100 Years Official…