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Keyes, Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia) Keyes, Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st BaronKeyes, Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baronkēz [key], 1872–1945, British admiral. In World War I he achieved his greatest fame as commander…

Zeebrugge

(Encyclopedia) ZeebruggeZeebruggezāˈbrŭˌgə [key], outer port of Bruges (Brugge), West Flanders prov., NW Belgium, on the North Sea. Zeebrugge was developed c.1900 to replace the silted-up port of…

Keys to Tulsa

Director:Leslie GreifWriter: Harley PeytonDirector of Photography:Robert FraisseEditors:Eric L. Beason, Louis Cioffi and Michael R. MillerMusic:Stephen EndelmanProduction Designer:Derek R.…

Brewer's: Key

(See Kay.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Key-coldKex A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…

Brewer's: Keys

(See St. Sitha) Keys of stables and cowhouses have not unfrequently, even at the present day, a stone with a hole through it and a piece of horn attached to the handle. This is a relic…

Daniel, book of the Bible

(Encyclopedia) Daniel, book of the Bible. It combines “court” tales, perhaps originating from the 6th cent. b.c., and a series of apocalyptic visions arising from the time of the Maccabean emergency…

Susanna

(Encyclopedia) Susanna. 1 Heroine of a story told in the Book of Daniel, in a chapter (13) placed in the Apocrypha in the Authorized Version (see Daniel). Two elders attempt to seduce Susanna and are…

Belteshazzar

(Encyclopedia) BelteshazzarBelteshazzarbĕltəshăzˈər [key], in the Book of Daniel, Babylonian name of the prophet Daniel.