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Nike chairman, withdrew a personal donation of $30 million to his alma mater, the University of Oregon, in May after the school joined the Workers' Right Consortium, a student-run watchdog…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…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: 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…Brewer's: Knight of La Mancha
Don Quixote de la Mancha, the hero of Cervantes' novel, called Don Quixote. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Knight of the Bleeding HeartKnight Rider Street…Brewer's: Knight Rider Street
(London). So named from the processions of knights from the Tower to Smithfield, where tournaments were held. Leigh Hunt says the name originated in a sign or some reference to the Heralds…Brewer's: Knight of the Rueful Countenance
Don Quixote. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Knight's FeeKnight of the Post 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…Brewer's: Knights of the Green Cloth
Same as CARPET KNIGHTS (q.v.). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Knights of the HandcuffsKnights of the Garter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…Brewer's: Knights of the Holy Sepulchre
An Order of military knights founded by Godfrey of Bouillon, in 1099, to guard the “Holy Sepulchre.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Knights of the Order of…Trending
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