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Brewer's: Dance

The Spanish danza was a grave and stately court dance. Those of the seventeenth century were called the Turdion, Pabana, Madama Orleans, Piedelgiba'o, El Rey Don Alonzo, and El Caballero.…

America's Most Endangered Places 2007

Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront among American sites most at risk by Mark Zurlo Greer Spring, Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri America's Most Endangered Places America's Most Endangered…

2000 PGA Tour Results

2000 PGA Tour Last Rd Tournament Winner Earnings Runner-Up Jan. 2@ Williams World Challenge Tom Lehman (267) $1,000,000 D. Duval (270) Jan. 9 Mercedes Championship…

World Indoor Records Set in 1997

World indoor records set or equaled between Oct. 1, 1996 and Sept. 20, 1997.Men Event Record Old Mark Former Holder800 metersWilson Kipketer, DEN1:43.961:44.84Paul Ereng, KEN (1989)800…

Candide

by Voltaire 1759 Translated from the German of Dr. Ralph with the Additions Found in the Doctor's Pockets When He Landed at Minden in the Year of Our Lord 1759 Contents How Candide…

Assassinations and Attempts in U.S. Since 1865

Lincoln, Abraham (president of U.S.): Shot April 14, 1865, in Washington, DC, by John Wilkes Booth; died April 15.Seward, William H. (secretary of state): Escaped assassination (though…

Brewer's: Beggar

A beggar may sing before a pickpocket. (In Latin, “Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.”) A beggar may sing before a highwayman because he has nothing in his pocket to lose. Set a…

Valencia, city, Spain

(Encyclopedia) Valencia, city (1990 pop. 758,738), capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and of Valencia prov., E Spain, on the Turia River. The third largest city in Spain, it lies in a…