Final 1996 regular season poll including games through Nov. 18. Conducted by the national weekly Soccer America and released in the Dec. 2nd issue. Listing includes records through…
Queen of the Amazons, who went with 300 women to meet Alexander the Great, under the hope of raising a race of Alexanders. “This was no Thalestris from the fields, but a quiet domestic…
simply means a servant or minister. Minstrels were kept in the service of kings and princes for the entertainment of guests. James Beattie has a poem in Spenserian verse, called The…
A coquette. The word is from the verb flirt, as, “to flirt a fan.” The fan being used for coquetting, those who coquetted were called fan-flirts. Lady Frances Shirley, the favourite of…
Colonial CongressEven before public service had made him known, Washington was a friend and guest of many of the leading Virginians. Between 1747 and 1754 he visited the Carters of Shirley,…
(The). The autumnal summer; generally the finest and mildest part of the whole year, especially in North America. “The gilding of the Indian summer mellowed the pastures far and wide. The…
(A). A clerical hat. “He [Mr. Helstone] was short of stature [and wore] a rehoboam, or shovel hat, which he did not ... remove.” —“Currer Bell”: Shirley, chap. i. Rehoboam A rehoboam…
There are in England 334 parks stocked with deer; red deer are kept in 31 of them. The oldest is Eridge Park, in Sussex, called in Domesday Book Reredfelle (Rotherfield). The largest…
king of the Tyrrhenians, noted for his cruelties and impiety. He was driven from his throne by his subjects, and fled to Turnus, King of the Rutuli. When Æneas arrived he fought with…
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