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Brewer's: Lion and the True Prince

(The). The lion will not touch the true prince (1 Henry IV., ii. 4). This is a religious superstition; the “true prince,” strictly speaking, being the Messiah, who is called “the Lion of…

The Artist Formerly Known as Prince

EmancipationNPG/EMI Freed from his contractual battles with Warner Bros., the Artist Formerly Known as Prince celebrated by releasing this exorbitant three-CD set containing some of his…

Brewer's: Pavilion of Prince Ahmed

(The). This pavilion was so small it could be covered with the hand, and yet would expand so largely as to encamp a whole army. (Arabian Nights: Ahmed and Pari-Banon.) (See Solomon's…

Prince Edward Island Map

  Prince Edward Island Profile: History · Government · Economy · Population €¦ Note: Prince Edward Island, together with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, form Canada's Maritime…

Agapemone

(Encyclopedia) AgapemoneAgapemoneăgəpĕmˈənē [key] [Gr.,=abode of love], English religious community of men and women, holding all goods in common. It was founded (c.1850) at the village of Spaxton,…

Black Prince

(Encyclopedia) Black Prince: see Edward the Black Prince.

Philip, Prince

(Encyclopedia) Philip, Prince: see Edinburgh, Prince Philip Mountbatten, duke of.

Macdonald, Flora

(Encyclopedia) Macdonald, Flora, 1722–90, Scottish Jacobite heroine. She aided Charles Edward Stuart, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, to escape to France after the defeat of the Jacobites at Culloden…

Connaught, Arthur William Patrick Albert, duke of

(Encyclopedia) Connaught, Arthur William Patrick Albert, duke ofConnaught, Arthur William Patrick Albert, duke ofkŏnˈôt [key], 1850–1942, English prince; son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert,…