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Beverly Sills

(Belle Silverman)operatic sopranoBorn: 5/25/1929Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Animated coloratura widely regarded as America's greatest soprano. She has appeared as the heroine in more than 50…

Shakespeare Quotation

The Question: I remember a line like "the uncertain glory of an April day" that described an elusive victory in battle. I thought it was from Julius Caesar…

Aventine

(Encyclopedia) Aventine, hill: see Rome before Augustus under Rome.

Caelian

(Encyclopedia) Caelian, hill: see Rome before Augustus under Rome.

Viminal

(Encyclopedia) Viminal, hill: see Rome before Augustus under Rome.

Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3d duke of

(Encyclopedia) Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3d duke of, 1735–1811, British statesman. After serving as a secretary of state (1765–66), he became first lord of the treasury in Lord Chatham's…

Celine Dion

musicianBorn: 3/30/1968Birthplace: Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada Enormously successful popular singer, and one of Canada's most successful stars of all time. Her album Falling into You (1996) won…

Heathfield, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia) Heathfield, 1st Baron: see Eliott, George Augustus, 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar.

Cinna, d. 44 b.c., Roman tribune

(Encyclopedia) Cinna (Caius Helvius Cinna), d. 44 b.c., Roman tribune. At the funeral of Julius Caesar the mob mistook him for Lucius Cornelius Cinna and killed him. He was probably the minor poet…