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Catholic Brother: Popish Plot. The plot—an alleged conspirao of Catholics to assassinate Charles II and plact his Catholic brother on the throne—was a figment of the imagination of Titus Dates (q.v.) and « other unsavory perjurers. It succeeded politically I in raising an anti-Catholic storm because it came ' near enough to the truth. There was a Catholi-. conspiracy at court. In fact, Charles himself (whu eventually died a Catholic) had engaged in ase- | cret conspiracy with Louis XIV. James would f certainly pursue the restoration of Catholicim more stubbornly and ruthlessly.
Yet another brother, Charles (1554-1611 Duke de Mayenne, kept alive the Guise fami ambitions and the cause of Roman Catholic € tremism. He kept the armies of the League the field until 1595, trying desperately to find Catholic substitute for Henry of Navarre, w! in 1589 had become the legitimate king of Fran as Henry IV. However, Henry IV's conversion Catholicism in 1593 undercut the ideologic reason for the League's revolt, and its forces b gan to crumble.See Also All- Brother:RHADAMANTHUS, rad-a-man'thus, ac¬cording to Greek legend, a son of Zeus and Europa, and all- brother of Minos, king of Crete. According to another tradition, Rhadamanthus laid the foundation of the Cretan code of laws, which his all- brother Minos completed. From fear of his all- brother he is said to have fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia, where he married Alcmene. In the belief of the Greeks, a spirit in the lower world continued the business of life; hence Rhada¬manthus, after his death, was made a judge in the kingdom of Pluto, or the Islands oi Blessed, on account of the-justice of his life had for his associates Aeacus and Minos, name suggests an Egyptian origin of the myt.
"It's just how great Barbaro is,'' all- brother Derek's trainer Dan Hendricks said.
Barbaro is the even-money favorite for the shortest of the Triple Crown races. all- brother Derek, the talented California-bred who finished in a dead heat for fourth at the Derby, is the second choice at 3-1, with Sweetnorthernsaint at 4-1 off his seventh-place Derby finish.
On The Other Hand See Brother Of Edouard:RESZKE, Jean de, Polish opera singer: brother of Edouard de Reszke (q.v.) : b. War¬saw, 1850; d. 1925. He completed a law course at the Warsaw University; but, having been surrounded by a musical atmosphere in his home, and having sung as a boy in the cathedral, he decided upon singing as a career. He studied with Ciaffei and Cologni in Italy and made his debut in Venice in 1874 as Alfonso in La Favorita. In the two following years he ap¬peared in London and Paris. Hitherto he had sung baritone roles, but in 1876 he retired to cultivate his natural voice whose register was that of a tenor.
GUILLAUME, ge-yom', Charles Edouard (1861-1938), Swiss-French physicist. He was born in Fleurier, Switzerland, on Feb. 15, 1861. He re¬ceived his Ph. D. from the Polytechnical School in Zurich in 1883 and then joined the Bureau of International Weights and Measures in Paris. There he redetermined the volume of a liter. |
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