Meaning/Description:“Conqueror” or “victor” Pronunciation:“vik-tohr” Length: 6 letters, 2 syllables Popularity/Rank: #213 Namesakes: American puppeteer and voice actor Victor Yerrid Other namesakes include boxer Victor Ortíz Variants: Also spelled “Vittorio” as an Italian boy name...
Old fogey that I am, I prize rap as a medium drunk on wordplay, and Woods has a true writer’s/rhymer’s passion for words, both their meaning and, crucially, their sound. Lyrical sample from a song called “Rapper Weed” that many have found too good not to quote, myself now amon...
In other words, truth in America has lost its power. It is no longer possible to combat destructive ideologies with truth. You can test this yourself. Try to convince CNN, New York Times, NPR, a white liberal professor, a member of Antifa, or a black protester that George Floyd killed ...
He had little to say–only one word of the glory of the surrounding scenery, for he was a true son of Nature to the last. He had placed in an official’s hands a slip of paper with the following words upon it: ‘I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this ...
In the heart, without words, until death. You told me of all things - so early! I guessed them so late! In our hearts A wound is eternal, a silent Question exists in our eyes, The desert on earth is so endless, The heaven, so high, has no stars, Revealed is the tender secret,...
worked as a cook for a well-to-do Jewish family named Frankenberger.The Frankenbergers had a son who was nineteen years old at the time Hitler's forty-two-year-old grandmother bore a child out of wedlock, and the Jewish family paid for the support of the child up to the time it was...
I’m happy to say that, two years and four months later, the wait is over. The initial version of the dungeon, compatible with Labyrinth Lord, has been very well received by backers and will go on sale to the general public as a PDF on 8/15. The Adventurer Conqueror King version is...
September 12, 2016: Timur, aka Tamerlane, the ferocious conqueror from my last post, was born in Shakhrisabze, 100 miles from Samarkand across an arm of the Pamir-Alai mountains, but he made Samarkand the center of his empire. Archaeologists date the founding of the city to the sixth cen...
We can best conclude these introductory remarks by applying to the subject of the following pages, some words which he applied a generation ago to others: In the sphere of common experience we see some human beings live and die, and furnish by their life no special lessons visible to man,...
“William the Conqueror couldn’t write at all,” said the Story Girl crushingly. “He never goes to church, and he never says his prayers,” retorted Felicity, uncrushed. “I do, too,” said Peter himself, suddenly appearing through a little gap in the hedge. “I say my prayers somet...