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1715 matches to Quiller-Couch (Q)
Quiller-Couch (Q). 1863-1944. English editor of Oxford Book of English Verse 1900,39.
Académie Française. Assembly of 40 “immortals” founded 1635 by Richelieu to set literary standards, language.
Achates. Aeneas’ armour bearer and friend in Greek mythology.
Achilles. Greek hero of Trojan Wars, invulnerable except for his heel, subject of Homer’s Iliad.
Acts of the Apostles. c70-90. Luke’s history of early Christian church.
Adams, John Q. 1767-1848. US President 1825-9. Abolitionist.
Adams, Samuel. 1722-1803. US Revolutionary: -“No taxation without representation”.
Adlerian Psychology. Man is driven to attain power to compensate for “inferiority feeling”. Can lead to “Overcompensation”, e.g. short dictators. Neuroses are illnesses as an excuse for underachievement.
Admiralty Arch. 1910 London memorial to Q Victoria.
Aeëtes. Greek. Medea’s father. Guardian of Golden Fleece.
Aegeus. King of Athens. Theseus’ father. Suicide.
Aeneas. Trojan hero of Virgil’s Aeneid.
Agnosticism. Huxley’s term for not knowing whether God exists or not.
Aircraft Transport and Travel Ltd. 1916. World’s first airline, Britain.
Akkad. Ancient region in modern Iraq, north of Sumer. c24C BC; center of Sargon’s Semitic Empire.
Alarcos, Battle. 1195. Moslems defeat Christians in Spain, go on to conquer Castile.
Albee, Edward. 1928-. US playwright. Pulitzer-Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1962.
Albert, Prince Consort. 1819-1861. Married Queen Victoria, 1840. Responsible for International exhibitions 1851, 62. Moderated Trent Affair.
Albert of Brandenburg. 1490-1568. First Duke of Prussia, 1525. Ended Teutonic Knights’ rule.
Albertus Magnus, St. c1200-80. Swabian Dominican philosopher influenced Aquinas: independent observation of nature. Alchemist.
Albigenses. (Cathars). Southern French ascetic Neo-Manichean heretic Christian sect. Eliminated by 13th Crusade, 1208-1229 and Inquisition.
Alboin. -572. Germanic Lombard King. Allied Germanic tribes and conquered N Italy.
Albuquerque, Afonso de. 1453-1515. Portuguese conquistador. Expanded empire.
Alchemy. Magic art of Egyptian origin attempting to transmute metals, esp lead to gold. Based on belief that all metals are a pure base metal + impurities which the philosopher’s stone can remove.
Aldermaston March. 1958-64. Annual ‘Ban the Bomb’ demonstration of CND.