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Elizabeth City
(Encyclopedia) Elizabeth City, city (2020 pop. 18,631), seat of Pasquotank co., NE N.C., a port of entry on the Pasquotank River (which, with the…Port Elizabeth
(Encyclopedia) Port Elizabeth, city, now part and seat of Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan municipality, Eastern Cape prov., SE South Africa, on Algoa Bay, an arm of the Indian Ocean. It is a tourist…William Shakespeare: Winter's Tale, Act III, Scene II
Scene IIA court of JusticeEnter Leontes, Lords, and OfficersLeontesThis sessions, to our great grief we pronounce, Even pushes 'gainst our heart: the party tried The daughter of a king, our…Biography Features
Recent Features Biography | Business | Entertainment | Health & Science | History & Gov't | Society & Culture | Sports | United States | World Jump to: A…Přemysl
(Encyclopedia) PřemyslPřemyslpərzhĕmˈĭsəl [key], earliest dynasty of Bohemia. Its semilegendary founder was the peasant Přemysl, whom the Bohemian Princess (sometimes called Queen) Libussa chose as…Ferdinand I, king of Portugal
(Encyclopedia) Ferdinand I, 1345–83, king of Portugal (1367–83), son and successor of Peter I. His ambitions and his private life plunged the realm into disaster, although during his reign…Oates, Titus
(Encyclopedia) Oates, Titus, 1649–1705, English conspirator. An Anglican priest whose whole career was marked with intrigue and scandal, he joined forces with one Israel Tonge to invent the story of…William Shakespeare: Winter's Tale, Act II, Scene III
Scene IIIA room in Leontes' palaceEnter Leontes, Antigonus, Lords, and ServantsLeontesNor night nor day no rest: it is but weakness To bear the matter thus; mere weakness. If The cause were…Brewer's: Piccadilly
(London). So called from Piccadilla Hall, the chief depôt of a certain sort of lace, much in vogue during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The lace was called piccadilly lace, from its little…Brewer's: Fulhams
or Fullams. Loaded dice; so called from the suburb where the Bishop of London resides, which, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was the most notorious place for blacklegs in all England.…Trending
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