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Brewer's: Paphian

Relating to Venus, or rather to Paphos, a city of Cyprus, where Venus was worshipped; a Cyprian; a prostitute. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894PapimanyPaper…

Other WTA Tournaments, 2004

TournamentSingles championadidas International, Sydney, AustraliaJustine Henin- HardenneToray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, JapanLindsay DavenportOpen Gaz de France, Paris, FranceKim ClijstersProximus…

2002 Women's WTA Tour

2002 Women's WTA Tour Finals Tournament Winner Earnings Runner-Up Score Jan. 6 Australian Hardcourt Champs (Gold Coast) Venus Williams $27,000 J. Henin 75 62 Jan…

Sun, Moon, and Stars: June 2000

Movement of the heavenly bodies: June 2000   June Calendar Day Phenomenon Hour (UT) Hour (EST) 1 Saturn is 3 degrees north of the Moon. 0400 12 am (midnight) 1…

Brewer's: Consentes Dii

The twelve chief Roman deities- Jupiter, Apollo, Mars, Neptune, Mercury, and Vulcan. Juno, Vesta, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, and Venus. Ennius puts them into two hexameter verses: Juno, Vesta…

Brewer's: Oracles

were extremely numerous, and very expensive to those who consulted them. The most famous were Dodona, Ammon (in Libya), Delphos, Delos, that of Trophonius (in Boeotia), and that of Venus…

Brewer's: Valens

or Valanus. Mercury was the son of Valens and Phoronis. This Mercury is called Trophonius in the regions under the earth. (Cicero De Nat. Deorum, iii. 22.) Ciclinius [Mercury] riding in…

Brewer's: Phryne

(2 syl.). A courtesan or Athenian hetæra. She acquired so much wealth by her beauty that she offered to rebuild the walls of Thebes if she might put on them this inscription: “Alexander…

Brewer's: Seven Bodies in Alchemy

Sun is gold, moon silver, Mars iron, Mercury quicksilver, Saturn lead, Jupiter tin, and Venus copper. The bodies seven, eek, lo hem heer anoon; Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe; Mars…

1995–1996 Obie Awards

Best PlayAdrienne Kennedy, June and Jean in Concert and Sleep Deprivation ChamberPlaywritingAin Gordon, Wally's GhostDonald Margulies, The Model ApartmentSuzan-Lori Parks, VenusDoug Wright,…