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Brewer's: Learn

(1 syl.). Live and learn. Cato, the censor, was an old man when he taught himself Greek. Michael Angelo, at seventy years of age, said, “I am still learning.” John Kemble wrote out Hamlet…

Brewer's: Grave

To carry away the meal from the grave. The Greeks and Persians used to make feasts at certain seasons (when the dead were supposed to return to their graves), and leave the fragments of…

Tom May's Death

Tom May's Death As one put drunk into the Packet-boat, Tom May was hurry'd hence and did not know't. But was amaz'd on the Elysian side, And with an Eye uncertain, gazing wide, Could not…

1996-97 Season: 1997 College Draft

First and second round picks at the 51st annual NBA College Draft held June 25, 1997 at Charlotte Coliseum. The order of the first 11 positions were determined by a Draft Lottery held May 18…

Roger Sherman: Countryman II

Countryman IIRoger ShermanThursday, November 22, 1787To the People of Connecticut. It is fortunate that you have been but little distressed with that torrent of impertinence and folly, with…

Cicero, Roman orator

(Encyclopedia) Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)Cicerosĭsˈərō [key] or Tully, 106 b.c.–43 b.c., greatest Roman orator, famous also as a politician and a philosopher. To the modern reader probably the…