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The first Final Four for the Hawkeyes in 30 years is leading to some reminiscing, like the 61-year-old Bluder recalling watching Bolin, now 65, with the Iowa Cornets, a pioneering women’s pro team.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2023

The choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker will show two celebrated works, “Transfigured Night” and “Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke.”

From New York Times • May 24, 2016

Cornets from Waterloo—midshipmen of Trafalgar—all rushing to the law.

From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

Hurrah! thou silver-handled blade,    Though thou’st but little of the air Of swords by Cornets worn on p’rade,    To battle thee I vow to bear.

From A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow by Wise, Thomas James

Groot, Diederic de, origin and signification of his name of Groot, 1 Marries his daughter to Cornelius Cornets, 2.

From The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works by Burigny, Jean Lévesque de