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January 2012 Current Events: World News
U.S. News | Business News | Disasters & Science News Here are the key events in world news for the month of January 2012. Protests Intensify in Syria (Jan. 1): An 88-member Arab…Brewer's: Albert
(An) A chain from the waistcoat pocket to a button in front of the waistcoat. So called from Prince Albert, the consort of Queen Victoria. When he went to Birmingham, in 1849, he was…Brewer's: Cadmean Victory
(Greek, Kadmeia nike; Latin, Cadmea Victoria). A victory purchased with great loss. The allusion is to the armed men who sprang out of the ground from the teeth of the dragon sown by…Brewer's: Catholic Roll
(The). A document which each Roman Catholic was obliged to swear to on taking his seat as a Member of Parliament. It was abolished, and a single oath prescribed to all members by the 29,…Brewer's: Black Thursday
February 6th, 1851; so called in the colony of Victoria, from a terrible bush-fire which then occurred. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Black TomBlack-thorn…Brewer's: Queen's Heads
Postage-stamps which bear a likeness of the Queen's [Victoria's] head. (1895.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Queen's PipeQueen's English A B C D E F…Brewer's: Queen's Pipe
(The). An oven at the Victoria Docks for destroying (by the Inland Revenue authorities) refuse and worthless tobacco. In 1892 the oven was replaced by a furnace. In the Queen's Warehouse,…Brewer's: Queen's Weather
A fine day for a fête; so called because Queen Victoria is, for the most part, fortunate in having fine weather when she appears in public. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Queenstown
(Ireland), formerly called the Cove of Cork. The name was changed in 1850, out of compliment to Queen Victoria, when she visited Ireland with her husband, and created her eldest son Earl…Brewer's: Gojam
A province of Abyssinia (Africa). Captain Speke traced it to Lake Victoria Nyanza, near the Mountains of the Moon (1861). The swelling Nile. From his two springs in Gojam's sunny realm,…Trending
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