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The 2002–2003 Daytime Emmy Awards were presented on May 16, 2003, at New York City's Radio City Music Hall.Outstanding Drama Series: As the World Turns (CBS)Lead Actor in a Drama Series:…
New-fangled notions. When the calendar was reformed by Pope Gregory XIII. (1582), letters used to be dated stilo novo, which grew in time to be a cant phrase for any innovation. “And so I…
or Gringorian Water. Holy water; so called because Gregory I. was a most strenuous recommender of it. “In case they should happen to encounter with devils, by virtue of the Gringoriene…
Old Style means computed according to the unreformed calendar. New Style means computed according to the calendar reformed and corrected by Gregory XIII. in 1582. The New Style was…
Canossa, in the duchy of Modena, is where (in the winter of 1076-7) Kaiser Heinrich IV. went to humble himself before Pope Gregory VII. (Hildebrand). Has the Czar gone to Canossa? Is he…
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