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Classical Mythology: Undying Love: Orpheus

Undying Love: OrpheusClassical MythologyWhat the Hell? Adventures in the UnderworldHades Takes a Wife: PersephoneThe Cunning Rogue: SisyphusThe Not-So-Heavenly Host: TantalusUndying Love: Orpheus…

Lights! Camera! Learning! - American Classics

American Classics Peck's Atticus Finch in court To Kill a Mockingbird Though Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his subtle portrayal of Atticus Finch, the Southern lawyer who defends a black man…

LPGA Majors: du Maurier Classic

Edition:25thDates:July 31–Aug. 3Site: Glen Abbey GC, Oakville, Ontario, CanadaPar:36-37—73 (6,367 yards)Purse:$1,200,000 1 234TotEarnings1Colleen Walker68-72-73-65—278$180,0002Liselotte…

Hughes, Thomas

(Encyclopedia) Hughes, Thomas, 1822–96, English author. A lawyer, Hughes eventually became a judge; he was also a Liberal member of Parliament and worked assiduously for social reforms. His novel of…

Ollivant, Alfred

(Encyclopedia) Ollivant, Alfred, 1874–1927, English novelist. He wrote the classic dog story Bob, Son of Battle (1898), published in England as Owd Bob. Other works include The Gentleman (1908), The…

Egan, Pierce

(Encyclopedia) Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849, English sports writer. He was the author of Life in London, a lively account of the sporting gallants of the Regency. With its rough humor and colloquial style…

White, Gilbert

(Encyclopedia) White, Gilbert, 1720–93, English naturalist. He served as curate at Selborne and nearby parishes from 1751. He recorded his detailed observations of nature in letters to other…

Wheatley, Henry Benjamin

(Encyclopedia) Wheatley, Henry Benjamin, 1838–1917, English bibliographer and antiquarian, a founder of the Early English Text Society and of the Index Society. Wheatley's work on the indexing of…

Leoncavallo, Ruggiero

(Encyclopedia) Leoncavallo, RuggieroLeoncavallo, Ruggieror&oomacr;d-jāˈrō lāˌōnkävälˈlō [key], 1857–1919, Italian composer. The opera Pagliacci (1892), his one outstanding success, is a classic…

Quiriguá

(Encyclopedia) QuiriguáQuiriguákērēgwäˈ, kērēwäˈ [key], city of the Classic epoch of the Maya, E Guatemala. It is famous for its zoomorphics. Its stone steles have fine hieroglyphs. Near the ruins…