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2 unusual facts about The Breakers


Norbert Vesak

Babar, Music: Francis Poulenc, Debut: The Breakers, Newport, RI (1978) and played at the White House (1979)

The Breakers

The fireplace, taken from a 16th-century French chateau (Arnay-le-Duc, Burgundy), bears the inscription “I laugh at great wealth, and never miss it; nothing but wisdom matters in the end.”


Peabody and Stearns

The Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island, 1878, burned in 1892 and replaced with another mansion with the same name by Richard Morris Hunt)


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Hovenden Walker

By that time the whole fleet was heading for the “North Shore,” or more accurately, the coast to the westward; ships in the van were already plunging on the edge of the breakers.

Kirk Penney

He took home the Andrew Gaze MVP trophy for leading the Breakers to their best season ever, averaging 24.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists over 28 games, making Penney the first Kiwi to be honoured with the award.

RFA Scotol

The ship ran aground and was wrecked at Fox Cove on 12 May 1969 off Porthcothan, Cornwall, en route from Liverpool to the breakers at Antwerp.

Royal Poinciana Hotel

In the winter of 1915/1916, the Royal Poinciana Hotel hired the services of C.I. Taylor and many members of his Indianapolis ABCs pre-Negro League baseball team to take on another pre-Negro League baseball team hosted by the Breakers.

Shifting Through the Breakers

Shifting Through the Breakers is the second studio album released by Canadian singer and songwriter Morgan Finlay.

Time Breakers

As the story arc proceeds, the Breakers seek to influence various incidents in human history such as the collaboration in Cambridge in the early part of the twentieth century between Srinivasa Ramanujan and GH Hardy and to keep one step ahead of the Knowers.