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Brewer's: Foul-weather Jack
Commodore Byron, said to be as notorious for foul weather as Queen Victoria is for fine. (1723-1786.) Admiral Sir John Norris, who died 1746. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…September 2013 Current Events: U.S. News
World News | Business News | Disasters & Science News Here are the key events in United States news for the month of…The Celtic Twilight: "And Fair, Fierce Women"
by W. B. Yeats Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, VeniEnchanted Woods"And Fair, Fierce Women" One day a woman that I know came face to face with heroic beauty, that highest beauty which Blake says…Brewer's: Legend of a Coin
is that which is written round the face of a coin. Thus, on a shilling, the legend is round the head of the reigning sovereign; as, “VICTORIA DEI GRATIA BRITT: REGINA F: D:” (or “…2001 Gramophone Awards
Record of the Year and Orchestral Vaughan Williams, A London Symphonyand Butterworth, The Banks of Green Willow, London Symphony…Brewer's: Blayney's Bloodhounds
The old 89th Foot; so called because of their unerring certainty, and untiring perseverance in hunting down the Irish rebels in 1798, when the corps was commanded by Lord Blaney. This…Brewer's: Anagrams
Dame Eleanor Davies (prophetess in the reign of Charles I) = Never so mad a lady. Gustavus = Augustus. Horatio Nelson = Honor est a Nilo (made by Dr. Burney). Queen Victoria's Jubilee Year…Brewer's: Dambe'a
or Dembe'a. A lake in Gojam, Abyssinia, the source of the Blue Nile. Captain Speke traced the White Nile to Lake Victoria N'yanza, which, no doubt, is fed by the Mountains of the Moon. He…Brewer's: Godless Florin
(The). Also called “The Graceless Florin.” In 1849 were issued florins in Great Britain, with no legend except “Victoria Regina.” Both F.D. (Defender of the Faith) and D.G. (by God's Grace…Guelphs
(Encyclopedia) GuelphsGuelphsgwĕlfs [key], European dynasty tracing its descent from the Swabian count Guelph or Welf (9th cent.), whose daughter Judith married the Frankish emperor Louis I. Guelph…Trending
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