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Brewer's: Ten

Gothic, tai-hun (two hands); Old German, ze-hen, whence zehn, zen. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Ten CommandmentsTempora Mutantur A B C D E F G H…

2004 Olympic Greco-Roman Wrestling Results

Class   Under 55kg Istvan Majoros, HUN   Gueidar Mamedaliev, RUS   Artiom Kiouregkian, GRE 55–60 kg Ji Hyun Jung, KOR   Roberto Monzon, CUB   Armen Nazarian, BUL…

Greco-Roman Wrestling

Class Under 55kgIstvan Majoros, HUN Gueidar Mamedaliev, RUS Artiom Kiouregkian, GRE55–60 kgJi Hyun Jung, KOR Roberto Monzon, CUB Armen Nazarian, BUL60–66 kgFarid Mansurov, AZE Seref Eroglu,…

Brewer's: Abus

The river Humber. For by the river that whylome was hight The ancien Abus ... [was from] Their chieftain, Humber, named aright. And Drayton, in his Polyolbion, 28, says: For my princely…

Brewer's: Eleven Thousand Virgins

Ursula being asked in marriage by a pagan prince, fled towards Rome with her eleven thousand virgins. At Cologne they were all massacred by a party of Huns, and even to the present hour “…

Brewer's: Chivalry

The paladins of Charlemagne were all scattered by the battle of Roncesvallës. The champions of Diderick were all assassinated at the instigation of Chriemhilda, the bride of Ezzel, King of…

Brewer's: Chriem-hilda

or Chriem-hild. A woman of unrivalled beauty, sister of Gunther, and beloved by Siegfried, the two chief heroes of the Nibelungenlied. Siegfried gives her a talisman taken from Gunther's…