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Albus (Dumbledore) –In Latin, this means "white" (maybe for his white beard). Clodius Albinus was Governor of Britain upon the death of the emperor Pertinax in the second century. Albinus attempted to seize the throne but ended up in alliance with another imperial contender, Septimius Severus...
The British Ferns: Represented in a Series of Photographs from Nature by Mrs Glaisher was the title of a book project with promising beginnings, but for unknown reasons was never published. It was planned in the early 1850s as a series of volumes of salt print photographs, a collaboration be...
The origin of this name was shrouded in legend for years. McDonald'sfinally declaredin 1985 that it had come from a 21-year-old secretary named Esther Glickstein, who had long lobbied for recognition as the inventor of the name. Rumors that the Delligatti family felt they deserved credit...
chrome lamps, and a bold geometric patterned rug in black, gold, and white. Glass is also a frequently used material in art deco design; whether that’s through mirrors, glass-topped tables, sculptural elements or an art deco vase or lamp, as glass adds to the elegant feel of an art ...
But wait, you might be saying, penguins don’t have white heads. According to World Wide Words, the word might have “first applied to the Great Auk, a flightless seabird now extinct which, like the penguin, used its wings to swim underwater.” It also kind of looks like a penguin. ...
Cardamom, spice consisting of whole or ground dried fruits and seeds of Elettaria cardamomum of the ginger family. The spice has a warm, slightly pungent, and highly aromatic flavor and is popular in South Asian dishes and in Scandinavian pastries.