In time the term knight became an honorary title conferred in a ceremony called knighting by a king or a man of noble birth on someone who had served him well. The surname Knight, however, is more likely to have applied to a servant in a knightly house or to someone who had played ...
bears a similarity to Tod’s Rajput genealogies. The emperor is said to descend from the marriage ofKing Solomonwith theQueen of Sheba. The tradition was written down more than 15 centuries ago; it is therefore older than the history of most European monarchies, but it cannot, of course, ...
7.(Biography)Lionel(Pigot) 1867–1902, British poet and critic, best known for his poems "Dark Angel" and "By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross" 8.(Biography)Lyndon Bainesknown asLBJ.1908–73, US Democrat statesman; 36th president of the US (1963–69). His administration carri...
SOURCESWilliam Bury Kinkead’s narrative is quoted from “Kinkead”, in Peyton Neale Clarke, Old King William Homes and Families: An Account of Some of the Old Homesteads and Families of King William County, Virginia, From Its Earliest Settlement (LouisvilleKY, 1897; reprint 1976), 71...
John Wynn ap Maredudd who died in 1559 was the forebear of the Wynn dynasty at Gwydir castle in Caernarvonshire. Nell Gwynn, London born, was the long-time mistress of King Charles II. Arthur Wynne was the British-born inventor of the modern crossword puzzle in New York in the 1910...
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A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience by charles g. gross 336 pp, $35 cambridge, ma, mit press, 2009 isbn-13: 978-0-2620-1338-3 what does a (tall) tale involving philip roth's character alexander portnoy—he of the complaint—have to do with the ancient ...
Some had migrated there from the west country. For instance theRev. Lewen Street Tugwell from the Tetbury family ended up – after periods as a Christian missionary in Canada and Spain – as the vicar of King Charles the Martyr in Tunbridge Wells, Kent in the 1880’s. His son Oswald, ...
Charles Gorman was from New Brunswick and known as “the human dynamo.” He was a North American speed skating star of the 1920’s. Tommy Gorman was well-known in Canada as a sports and entertainment promoter. He was a founder of the National Hockey League and managed seven clubs to St...