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Flying in the face of Providence, and disregarding the combination of Friday the 13th, Boat 13 was the first shell to take the water. Three University eights, one 150-pound boat, and a Freshman crew comprised the fleet that paddled up and down for a brief spin. The seatings of the crews were all chosen entirely by chance...
...Maius" is indeed the comparative. TIME gave the President's survey of the whole state of the union the title which Roger Bacon used for his "encyclopedia and organum of the 13th Century," and had TIME meant "great work" it would have said magnum opus, not opus magnus...
...Society of Rosicrucians (Rosenkreuzer) dates from early in the 13th Century, when it was more a class of isolated individuals than an organized cult. The members were Europeans, mostly Germans. During the Reformation they favored Lutheranism as opposed to Roman Catholicism. The "society" was popularly supposed to take its name from one Christian Rosenkreuz, who was supposed to have discovered Oriental secrets on a pilgrimage. Writers, such as Poet Pope in The Rape of the Lock and Poet Adamson in The Muses' Threnodie used Rosicrucian paraphernalia-supernatural beings, alchemic formulae, astrological signs-to embody moral teachings. The ritual...
...Esme is a scion of the Catholic branch of that excessively ancient family, founded by one William Howard, a Norfolk lawyer, in the 13th Century, which is now headed by Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, aged...
Thirteen such months give 364 days. But there are 365.242 days in each year. The 13th month and the extra day and a fraction are disposed of in this wise: The month is inserted in the calendar between June and July and called Sol, because during it would come the summer solstice. The full extra day would come at the end of the year and be called International Day, Dec. 29 or Jan. 0. There remains practically a quarter day, which every four years could be counted an accumulated full day. This would be inserted between June...