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Jewel Biography
Jewel(Jewel Kilcher)singer, songwriterBorn: 5/23/1974Birthplace: Payson, Utah Female rock and folk musician known for her crystalline voice, Jewel was raised in remote parts of Alaska touring…Odetta
Name at birth: Odetta HolmesOdetta was an African American folk singer who lent her strong voice to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. A native of Alabama, she moved to Los Angeles when she was…Brewer's: Lockitt's
A fashionable coffee-house in the reign of Charles II. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894LockmanLockit A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S…Brewer's: Lloyd's
An association of underwriters, for marine insurances. So called because the society removed in 1716 from Cornhill to a coffee-house in Lombard Street kept by a man named Lloyd. Source:…Brewer's: Garraway's
i.e. Garraway's coffee-house, in Exchange Alley. It existed for 216 years, and here tea was sold, in 1657, for 16s. up to 50s. a pound. The house no longer exists. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Divan'
(Arabic and Persian, diwan) means a register kept on a white table exactly similar to our board. Among the Orientals the word is applied to a council-chamber or court of justice; but in…Brewer's: Chattelin's
A fashionable coffee-house in the reign of Charles II. “Met their servant coming to bring me to Chatelin's, the French house, in Covent Garden, and there with music and good company ...…Brewer's: Gluckist and Piccinists
A foolish rivalry excited in Paris (1774-1780) between the admirers of Glück and those of Piccini—the former a German musical composer, and the latter an Italian. Marie Antoinette was a…Brewer's: Jonathan's
A noted coffee-house in Change Alley, described in the Tatler as the general mart of stock-jobbers. What is now called the Stock Exchange was called Jonathan's. “Yesterday the brokers and…Walt Whitman: Song of the Answerer, Part 1
Part 1Now list to my morning's romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer, To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me.A young man comes to me bearing a message…Trending
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