" from Proto-Germanic *althaz "grown up, adult" (source also of Old Frisian ald, Gothic alþeis, Dutch oud, German alt), originally a past-participle stem of a verb meaning "grow, nourish" (compare Gothic alan "to grow up," Old Norse ala "to nourish"), from PIE root *al- (...
Faust's Statue, below Dutch Church, State street. A REVEALED KNOWLEDGE OF THE PROPHECIES AND TIMES. BOOK THE FIRST. Wrote under the Direction of THE LORD GOD, Note 1: The British (Canadian) "prophet," Richard Brothers, was a topic of interest in both the United Kingdom and North ...
And that’s the director of this film as well. Machatý uses all kinds of techniques: weird Dutch angles, moving camera when there’s no real need for the moving camera. There are some shots that are in slow motion for no apparent reason. He believed in poetic cinema more than pros...
One of their leading tenets was to dissolve the ties of matrimony as suited their convenience -- and a promiscuous sexual intercourse was tolerated, by each male being allowed to take seven wives! It seems Cochran, the High Priest of iniquity, had had nearly half his female followers for ...
An Old Town By The Sea by Thomas Bailey Aldrich PISCATAQUA RIVER Thou singest by the gleaming isles, By woods, and fields of corn, Thou singest, and the sunlight smiles Upon my birthday morn. But I within a city, I, So full of vague unrest, Would almost
one Old English word for gravel wasċeosol[ˈtʃeo.sol], which comes from Proto-West-Germanic*kesul(small stone, pebble). This becamechiselandchessil(gravel or pebbles) in modern English, and is cognate withKiesel(pebble) in German,kiezel(pebble, flint, silicon) in Dutch, andkisel(...
Koff (n.) A two-masted Dutch vessel. Kohinoor (n.) Alt. of Kohnur Kohnur (n.) A famous diamond, surrendered to the British crown on the annexation of the Punjab. According to Hindoo legends, it was found in a Golconda mine, and has been the property of various Hindoo and Persian ...
"In 1945 I was one of the Dutch boys who went on a program after the war for better health to Leeds. While being with an English family we went every day to Leeds Modern School (for boys). I have very good memories of a teacher with the name "Mr. Wilson", he especially learned ...
one Old English word for gravel wasċeosol[ˈtʃeo.sol], which comes from Proto-West-Germanic*kesul(small stone, pebble). This becamechiselandchessil(gravel or pebbles) in modern English, and is cognate withKiesel(pebble) in German,kiezel(pebble, flint, silicon) in Dutch, andkisel(...
Tap dancing was derived from the habits Dutch plumbers who would tie taps to their shoes as a safety measure. They often worked in cramped conditions with poor visibility and the clacking noise of the taps alerted other workers to their presence. In a hurry to get to a dance one night, ...