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131st BELMONT STAKES
131st BELMONT STAKES Grade I for three-year olds; 9th race at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. Date— June 5, 1999; Distance— 11/2 miles; Stakes Purse— $1,000,000 ($600,000 to winner; $200,000 for…Bard College
(Encyclopedia) Bard College, at Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.; founded 1860 as St. Stephen's College for men; rechartered 1935 as Bard College; became coeducational in 1944; affiliated with Columbia Univ…Kalocsa
(Encyclopedia) KalocsaKalocsakŏˈlôchŏ [key], town (1991 est. pop. 18,200), S Hungary, near the Danube River. It is an agricultural center and is famed for its embroidery and paprika. Created a…Bethesda, in the Bible
(Encyclopedia) BethesdaBethesdabĕthĕzˈdə, –thĕsˈ– [key], pool in Jerusalem, perhaps the one discovered under the Crusaders' Church of St. Anne near St. Stephen's Gate in the northeast corner of the…William of Newburgh
(Encyclopedia) William of Newburgh, 1136?–1198?, English chronicler, monk of Newburgh, Yorkshire. He wrote the Historia rerum Anglicarum, a history of England from 1066 to 1198. Its chief value lies…Beer, Thomas
(Encyclopedia) Beer, Thomas, 1889–1940, American author, b. Council Bluffs, Iowa, grad. Yale, 1911, and studied law at Columbia, 1911–13. He is best remembered for his biographies of Stephen Crane (…Fort George G. Meade
(Encyclopedia) Fort George G. Meade, U.S. army post, 13,500 acres (5,460 hectares), central Md., between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.; est. 1917 as a World War I induction center.Nicholas II, pope
(Encyclopedia) Nicholas II (c.1010–61), pope (1058–61), a Roman named Gerard, b. Lorraine, France; successor to Pope Stephen IX. A strong proponent of papal reform, he issued (1059) the Papal…Veszprém
(Encyclopedia) VeszprémVeszprémvĕˈsprām [key], town (1991 est. pop. 64,277), W Hungary, near the Lake of Balaton. It is a commercial center producing textiles, wine, knitted goods, and foodstuffs.…Prilep
(Encyclopedia) PrilepPrilepprēˈlĕp [key], city (1994 pop. 71,899), North Macedonia. It is the trade center of an agricultural region and a manufacturing city where tobacco, textiles, wine, and fruit…Trending
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