Benjamin BrittenArchive PhotosJohann Sebastian BachArchive PhotosBaroque VocalBach, St. Matthew Passion, John Eliot Gardiner conducting Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists (Archiv)…
Editions of the Greek and Latin classics, published and printed under the superintendence of Aldo Manuzio, his father-in-law Andrea of Asolo, and his son Paolo (1490–1597); most of them in…
(A). Only once has a pope been known to preach a sermon in three hundred years. In 1847 a great crowd had assembled to hear the famous Padre Ventura preach in Santa Andrea della Valle, of…
Also see the Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal winnners.1998 Coretta Scott King Awards, honoring black authors and illustrators: (author): Heaven, Angela Johnson (Simon & Schuster…
200-meter Butterfly Find the Olympic gold-medal times for the women's 200-meter Butterfly swimming competition from 1968 to the present. Year Time 1968 Ada Kok, NED 2:24.7 OR1972 Karen Moe…
So called from Andrew Borde, physician to Henry VIII., etc. To vast learning he added great eccentricity, and in order to instruct the people used to address them at fairs and other…
Violins of the greatest excellence; so called from Cremona, where for many years lived some makers of them who have gained a world-wide notoriety, such as Andrea Amati and Antonio his son…
Cicero was so entitled by the Roman senate. They offered the same title to Marius, but he refused to accept it. Several of the Cæsars were so called—Julius, after quelling the insurrection…
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