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Philomela and Procne
Philomela and Procne , in Greek mythology, daughters of King Pandion of Attica. Procne married Tereus, king of Thrace, and bore him a son, Itys (or Itylus). Tereus later seduced Philomela and cut out her tongue to silence her. Philomela embroidered the story into some cloth, which she sent to her... Read more |
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Edward Drinker Cope
Edward Drinker Cope 1840-97, American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, b. Philadelphia, studied at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and at the Smithsonian Institution. His large collection of fossil mammals is now at the American Museum of Natural History. His many published... Read more |
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Daphnis
Daphnis , in Greek mythology, shepherd, the son of Hermes and a nymph. He was unfaithful to a nymph who loved him, and in revenge she blinded him. He tried to comfort himself by playing melancholy songs upon the shepherd's pipes, and his friends lamented for him in song. Daphnis was revered as the... Read more |
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Francis Drake
Drake, Sir Francis (c.1543–96), born at Crowndale, near Tavistock, Devon, though the date of his birth is uncertain. Nor is anything known about his early years beyond the assumption that, after his father became a preacher at Chatham, he served his apprenticeship in the Thames coastal... Read more |
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Teach
Teach, or Thatch, Edward (d. 1718), English pirate, widely known as ‘Blackbeard’ from his odd habit of tying up the ends of his long black beard with ribbons and curling them back over his ears. He was born in Bristol and is said to have served as a privateer in the West Indies... Read more |
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Sir Richard Grenville
Sir Richard Grenville 1542?-1591, English naval hero. His cousin, Sir Walter Raleigh , gave him command of the fleet of seven vessels carrying the first colonists to Roanoke Island in 1585. In 1591, Grenville was second in command, under Lord Thomas Howard, of the fleet sent to capture the... Read more |
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bunny
bunny a child's word for a rabbit.bunny boiler a woman who takes revenge after having been spurned by her lover, with reference to the film Fatal Attraction, in which a jilted mistress boils her lover's pet rabbit.bunny girl a club hostess, waitress, or photographic model, wearing a skimpy costume... Read more |
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Charles Robert Maturin
Charles Robert Maturin , 1782-1824, Irish author. A minister by vocation, he wrote novels in the manner of the Gothic horror tale of Ann Ward Radcliffe . They include The Fatal Revenge (1807), The Milesian Chief (1812), and his masterpiece Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). He wrote several... Read more |
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Cyril Tourneur
Cyril Tourneur , 1575?-1626, English dramatist and poet. Little is known of his life. The Transformed Metamorphosis (1600), an allegorical satire, was his first published work. His reputation rests on two gloomy, violent plays, The Revenger's Tragedy (1607), which is thought by many scholars to... Read more |
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