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Brewer's: Norfolk Street

(Strand), with Arundel, Surrey, and Howard Streets, were the site of the house and grounds of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, then of the Lord High Admiral Seymour, and afterwards of the…

Brewer's: Hertford

(Anglo-Saxon, heort-ford, the hart's ford). The arms of the city are “a hart couchant in water.” Hertford, invoked by Thomson in his Spring, was Frances Thynne, who married Algernon…

Brewer's: Marching Watch

A splendid pageant on Midsummer Eve, which Henry VIII. took Jane Seymour to Mercers' Hall to see. In 1547 Sir John Gresham, the Lord Mayor, restored the pageant, which had been…

2005 National Board of Review Awards

The National Board of Review includes teachers, actors, writers and movie-production workers. The organization publishes the magazine Films in Review…

1986 Radio & Records All-Time Charts

1986 Radio & Records All-Time ChartsAC“Your Wildest Dreams” Moody Blues (Polydor/PG)“Glory of Love” Peter Cetera (Full Moon/Warner Bros.)“There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)” Billy…

Discus Throw

Discus ThrowYear Distance 1928 Halina Konopacka, POL 129-113/4 WR1932 Lillian Copeland, USA 133- 2 OR1936 Gisela Mauermayer, GER 156- 3 OR1948 Micheline Ostermeyer, FRA 137- 6 1952 Nina…

Brewer's: Mistletoe Bough

The tale referred to in this song, about Lord Lovel's daughter, is related by Rogers in his Italy, where the lady is called “Ginevra.” A similar narrative is given by Collet in his Relics…

Brewer's: Proud

(The). Otho IV., Emperor of Germany. (1175, 1209-1218.) Tarquin II. of Rome. Superbus. (Reigned B.C. 535-510, died 496.) The proud Duke. Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset. He would…

Brewer's: Tower of London

The architect of this remarkable building was Gundulphus, Bishop of Rochester, who also built or restored Rochester keep, in the time of William I. In the Tower lie buried Anne Boleyn and…

Brewer's: Amiel

(3 syl.). A form of the name of Eliam (friend of God). In Dryden's satire of Absalom and Achitophel it is meant for Sir Edward Seymour, Speaker of the House of Commons. (2 Samuel xxii. 34…