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2000-01 MLS Leading Scorers

Points   Gm G A Pts Alex Pineda Chacon, Mia 25 19 9 47 Diego Serna, Mia 22 15 15 45 John Spencer, Col 23 14 7 35 Jeff Cunningham, Clb 22…

TIME Person of the Year

How “Lucky Lindy”—and a slow week for news—gave birth to a memorable annual tradition The founders of TIME Magazine, Henry Luce and Briton Haddon, were strong believers in the idea…

Brewer's: Wilmington

invoked by Thomson in his Winter, is Sir Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, the first patron of our poet, and Speaker of the House of Commons…

Brewer's: All for a Song!

The exclamation of Burleigh, when Queen Elizabeth ordered him to give #100 to Spencer for a royal gratuity. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894All to break (…

Wimbledon Preview

by John Gettings From the Spotlight Archive: This feature appeared in June 1998 The Duke and Duchess of Kent politely applaud American Pete Sampras' victory in 1997, but the royals and the home…

Brewer's: Navvy

A contraction of navigator. One employed to make railways. “Canals were thought of as lines of inland navigation, and a tavern built by the side of a canal was called a `Navigation Inn.'…