(Encyclopedia) olive, common name for the Oleaceae, a family of trees and shrubs (including climbing forms) of warm temperate climates and of the Old World tropics, especially Asia and the East…
(Encyclopedia) olive oil, pale yellow to greenish oil obtained from the pulp of olives by separating the liquids from solids. Olive oil was used in the ancient world for lighting, in the preparation…
(Encyclopedia) Schreiner, OliveSchreiner, Oliveshrīˈnər [key], pseud. Ralph Iron, 1855–1920, South African author and feminist, b. Wittebergen Reserve, Cape Colony. After several years as a governess…
(Encyclopedia) Fremstad, Olive NayanFremstad, Olive Nayanfrĕmˈstăd [key], 1871–1951, Swedish-American soprano; pupil of Lilli Lehmann. She came to the United States as a child. After her European…
(2 syl.). Sacred to Pallas Athene. (See Olive-Tree.) EMBLEM of (1) Chastity. In Greece the newly-married bride wore an olive-garland; with us the orange-blossom is more usual. (2)…
Son and heir of Sir Rowland de Boys, who hated his youngest brother Orlando, and persuaded him to try a wrestling match with a professed wrestler, hoping thus to kill his brother; but when…
Bernard OliverBorn: 1916 Pulse Code Modulation. Oliver and Shannon developed the first high-speed digital transmission system based on coded electronic pulses, making digital telephone…
Children of a parent. It is a Scripture term: “Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine ... thy children like olive plants round about thy table” (Psalm cxxviii. 3.). Source: Dictionary of…
The last Catholic martyr to die at Tyburn, he was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975 by Ann-Marie Imbornoni St. Oliver Plunket (1629–1681) Born in County Meath, Oliver Plunket went to Rome to be…
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