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São Paulo

(Encyclopedia) São PauloSão PaulosouN pouˈ l&oobreve; [key], state (1996 pop. 34,055,715), 95,713 sq mi (247,897 sq km), SE Brazil. It is Brazil's most populous and economically important state.…

The Gender Pay Gap

Mean hourly earnings excluding overtime Men Women Pay gap 1997 10.10 8.01 20.7 1998 10.65 8.39 21.2 1999 11.10 8.83 20.5 2000 11.53 9.20 20…

Brewer's: Petrarch

The English Petrarch. Sir Philip Sidney; so called by Sir Walter Raleigh. Cowper styles him “the warbler of poetic prose.” (1554-1586.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…

Brewer's: Flower of Chivalry

A name given to several cavaliers: e.g. William Douglas, Lord of Liddesdale, in the fourteenth century. Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586). Chevalier de Bayard (le chevalier sans peur et sans…

Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de

(Encyclopedia) Coronado, Francisco Vásquez deCoronado, Francisco Vásquez defränthēsˈkō väsˈkāth dā kōrōnäˈᵺō [key], c.1510–1554, Spanish explorer. He went to Mexico with Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza…

Brewer's: Caracci

(pron. Kar-rah'-che). Founder of the eclectic school in Italy. Luis and his two cousins Augustin and Annibale founded the school called Incamminati (progressive), which had for its chief…

Brewer's: Uncumber

(St.), formerly called St. Wylgeforte. “Women changed her name” (says Sir Thomas More) “because they reken that for a pecke of otys she will not faile to uncumber them of their husbondys…

Brewer's: Astrophel

Sir Philip Sidney. “Phil. Sid.” being a contraction of Philos Sidus, and the Latin sidus being changed to the Greek astron, we get astron-philos (star-lover). The “star” that he loved was…