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Brewer's: Dustman has arrived

(The), or “The sandman is about.” It is bedtime, for the children rub their eyes, as if dust or sand was in them. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894DustyDust…

Brewer's: Dutch

The Dutch have taken Holland. A quiz when anyone tells what is well known as a piece of wonderful news. Similar to Queen Bess (or Queen Anne) is dead; the Ark rested on Mount Ararat; etc…

Manager of the Year

Manager of the Year Voted on by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Two awards (one for each league) presented since 1983. Note that (*) indicates manager's team won division…

Behati Prinsloo

Behati Prinsloo was 15 when she was discovered by a fashion scout while on vacation in Cape Town, South Africa in 2005. She signed with the Storm modeling agency, and before the year was out she had…

Bob Denver

Bob Denver played the hapless first mate Gilligan in the TV sitcom Gilligan's Island. The show featured "seven stranded castaways" making the best of life after they are shipwrecked on a deserted…

Arif Mardin 2006 Deaths

Arif MardinAge: 74 Grammy Award-winning music producer who worked with such artists as Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, the Bee Gees, Chaka Khan, and Norah Jones. Died: New York City, June…

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Jaime SabinesEdmond SafraDoug SahmFred Saigh Jr.Gene SarazenVazgen SarkisianNathalie SarrauteBidu SayaoArthur Schawlow Elizabeth (Betty) Robinson SchwartzAl Schill Jr.George C(ampbell)…

Shelby Lynne

I Am Shelby LynneMercury If this is what happens when singers get out of Nashville, then more of them ought to make the leap. It's certainly worked wonders for Shelby Lynne, who went back to…