Word History First Known Use 13th century, in the meaning definedabove Time Traveler The first known use ofArthurwas in the 13th century See more words from the same century Browse Nearby Words Arthrozoa Arthur Arthurian See all Nearby Words ...
King Arthur is the most famous figure to seek the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, but others came before him—and their tales are as ornate as the object itself.
A Scotsman with an alcoholic, Irish, fairy-painting father, Doyle offered himself and his writings as a model of British manhood during the greatest crisis of British history. Doyle was committed to finding solutions to some of the most difficult cultural problematics of late Victorian masculinity....
Derived from the Legendary King of 6th Century England, Arthur is a very common name among European origins, mainly Welsh, Celtic and German with several meanings going from either the Celtic Artos meaning Bear, or the Old German Arnthor meaning Thor, the eagle....
Born in Chicago in 1929, Jeff (or Jack) Lint submitted his first story to the pulps during a childhood spent in Santa Fe. His first published effort appeared in a wartime edition ofAmazing Storiesbecause Lint submitted it under the name “Isaac Asimov.”“And Your Point Is?” tells the ...
They do all of this at an average speed somewhere around 2-3 mph, meaning the race never gets much faster than the wheelchair-bound vets in the Memorial Day Parade that precedes them at the finish line in Ferndale. The KSR combines the tedious pace and muddy wallowing of a tractor pull ...
Gaius says he has no idea, but he tells him that when he found Uther, he was crying, calling out Ygraine's name. Arthur and Sir Leon catch wind that mercenaries are flooding into Cenred's kingdom; they fear he is raising an army and inform Uther, but he does not listen due to ...
— A Paddle With Her Name On It, Fontana, CA. Well, if you trying to raise it right, get you a little cane switch. Don’t spank him. Don’t slap him. Get you a little cane switch and hit him on his little booty back there. Sting him. Don’t get the blood out of him, don...
Building quantum computers is complicated and costly. To begin, to overcome decoherence qubits require isolation, meaning they need very low temperatures, delivered through expensive engineering solutions. These enabling technologies are currently complex and require significant investment (e.g., superconducti...
and whether any of them might be turned to profit. At length he seemed to have some idea of our meaning, and offered to accompany us to a part of coast where he assured us the biche de mer (pointing to a specimen of that animal) was to be found in great abundance. We were glad ...