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Damon Knight 2002 Deaths

Damon KnightAge: 79 science-fiction writer and editor whose darkly comic short story “To Serve Man” was adapted into a popular episode of The Twilight Zone. Knight was an early member of the…

Marvin Knight 2000 Deaths

Marvin KnightAge: 91 Dallas Cowboys team physician under coach Tom Landry until 1986. Died: Muenster, Texas, Jan. 23Don KlostermanG - LEdward Knipling

T. R. Knight Biography

actor Born: March 26, 1973Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota T. R. Knight was just five years-old when he became involved with Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater. Later,…

Edward Knight Collins Biography

Edward Knight CollinsshipownerBorn: 1802Birthplace: Truro, Mass. Collins began working in the shipping business at age 15 in New York City, and bought his first shipping line in 1831. Five…

The Celtic Twilight: A Knight of the Sheep

by W. B. Yeats "Dust Hath Closed Helen's Eye"An Enduring HeartA Knight of the Sheep Away to the north of Ben Bulben and Cope's mountain lives "a strong farmer," a knight of the sheep they…

Brewer's: Cross-legged Knights

indicate that the person so represented died in the Christian faith. As crusaders were supposed so to do, they were generally represented on their tombs with crossed legs. “Sometimes the…

Brewer's: Red Rose Knight

(The) Tom Thumb or Tom-a-lin. Richard Johnson, in 1597, published a “history of this ever-renowned soldier, the Red Rose Knight, surnamed the Boast of England. ...” Source: Dictionary of…

Brewer's: Priest ... Knight

I would rather walk with Sir Priest than Sir Knight. I prefer peace to strife. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Priest of the Blue-bagPridwin A B C D E F…

Brewer's: Knight of the Bleeding Heart

The Bleeding Heart was one of the many semi-religious orders instituted in the Middle Ages in honour of the Virgin Mary, whose “heart was pierced with many sorrows.” “When he was at…

Brewer's: Knight of the Couching Leopard

(The). Sir Kenneth, or rather the Earl of Huntingdon, Prince Royal of Scotland, who followed, incognito, Richard I. to the Crusade, and is the chief character of the Talisman, a novel by…