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<i>Eclipse</i> Trivia
Learn about the symbolism, origin of names, and other interesting tidbits about Twilight Related Links Twilight Page Twilight Quiz…Pulitzer Prizes: Feature Writing
1979 Jon D. Franklin (Baltimore Evening Sun) 1980 Madeleine Blais…Brewer's: Cinque Cento
An epithet applied to art between 1500-1600; called in France Renaissance, and in England Elizabethan. It was the revival of the classical or antique, but is generally understood as a…Brewer's: Rococo Architecture
A debased style, which succeeded the revival of Italian architecture, and very prevalent in Germany. The ornamentation is without principle or taste, and may be designated ornamental…Brewer's: Angel
Half a sovereign in gold; so called because, at one time, it bore the figure of the archangel Michael slaying the dragon. When the Rev. Mr. Patten, vicar of Whitstable, was dying, the…Brewer's: Marian'a
One of the most lovable of Shakespeare's characters. Her pleading for Angelo is unrivalled. (Measure for Measure.) Tennyson has two Marianas among his poems. Mariana. Daughter of the…Brewer's: Mausoleum
One of the seven “wonders of the world;” so called from Mausolus, King of Caria, to whom Artemisia (his wife) erected at Halicarnassos a splendid sepulchral monument B.C. 353. Parts of…Brewer's: Measure for Measure
(Shakespeare). The story is taken from a tale in G. Whetstone'sHeptameron, entitled Promos and Cassandra (1578). Promos is called by Shakespeare, “Lord Angelo;” and Cassandra is “Isabella…Brewer's: Moses' Horns
Exodus xxxiv. 30, “All the children of Israel saw Moses, and the skin of his face shone, ” translated in the Vulgate, “Cornuta esset facies sua.” Rays of light were called horns. Hence in…Brewer's: Illuminations
Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon illuminations from the eighth to the eleventh century. Extreme intricacy of pattern. Interlacings of knots in a diagonal or square form, sometimes interwoven…Trending
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