A Dictionary of Names, Nicknames, and Surnames of Persons, Places, and Things - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1558889019 ISBN 13 : 9781558889019

Editeur : Omnigraphics, 1999

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A bbaye, L. A military prison in Paris, built 1522, and demolished 1854. In September, 1792, 164 persons imprisoned in LA bbaye were murdered by the infuriated Republicans, led by Maillard. Abderian Laughter. A name given to derisive laughter, from A bdera, Democritus birthplace v. Laughing Philosopher, The). A bderite, The, v. Laughing Philosopher, The. A becedarians. AG erman Anabaptist sect (sixteenth century), led by Nicholas Stork, a weaver. I ts adherents regarded all learning even AB Cas inimical to religion. Abencerrages (or A benc6rages). AM oorish tribe, said to have dominated Granada in the fifteenth century. The name has been rendered famous as the title of a work by Chateaubriand, les A ventures du dernier A bencerrage. A braham-men. The wards in Bethlehem Hospital v. Bedlam) were named after saints or patriarchs, and that which bore D.N. A brahams name contained a class of lunatics who were allowed to go out begging. They were known as A brahammen, and wore a badge. The badge, however, came to be assumed by others who feigned lunacy. Hence the meaning of impostor attributed to the term, and the phrase to sham A braham. A braham Newland. A nickname by which a Bank of England note was long known, from its being signed by A braham Newland, the cashier of the Bank in the early part of the nineteenth century. Academic Legion. An insurrectionary corps of armed students who made themselves conspicuous at Vienna in 1848. A cadia. The name of a former French colony in A merica, bounded by the A tlantic, the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence and (westward) by a line running north from the mouth of the Penobscot. Colonized by France in 1604 on the Bay of Fundy and ceded (except Cape Breton) to Great Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht v. Peace of Utrecht) in 1713.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Omnigraphics
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1558889019
• ISBN 13: 9781558889019
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 334
• Éditeur: Latham Edward
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible