(Encyclopedia) Valois, Dame Ninette deValois, Dame Ninette devălˈwä [key], 1898–2001, English ballet director, b. County Wicklow, Ireland. She was originally named Edris Stannus. After attaining…
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This expression is attributed both to Cleanthes and to Democritos the derider. “Naturam accusa, quæ in profundo veritatem (ut ait Democritus) peuitus abstruserit.” —Cicero: Academics, i.…
commemorates the death of Oswald, Christian king of Northumbria, who fell in battle before Penda, pagan king of Mercia, in 642. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
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