princely salary
1princely — prince|ly [ˈprınsli] adj [only before noun] 1.) a princely amount of money is very large often used humorously to mean a very small amount of money ▪ My savings had now reached the princely sum of £30. ▪ a far from princely salary 2.) formal… …
2Trans Australia Airlines — Infobox Airline airline = Australian Airlines image size = IATA = TN ICAO = callsign = founded = 1946 commenced = 1946 ceased = 1993 hubs = Melbourne Airport secondary hubs = focus cities = frequent flyer = lounge = alliance = subsidiaries =… …
3Peter Twinn — Peter Frank George Twinn (9 January 1916 ndash; 29 October 2004Dan Van Der Vat, Obituary: Peter Twinn , The Guardian , 20 November 2004] ) was a British mathematician, World War II codebreaker and entomologist.Education and codebreakingBorn in… …
4Reginald Dixon — MBE (born 1904 in Sheffield, died 1985) was a theatre organist.Reginald Mr Blackpool Dixon is best known as the resident organist at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom, where he played the Wurlitzer organ from 1930 until his retirement in 1970, only… …
5viceroy — viceroyship, n. /vuys roy/, n. 1. a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign: the viceroy of India. 2. a brightly marked American butterfly, Limenitis archippus, closely mimicking the monarch butterfly in… …
6Wagner, Richard — ▪ German composer Introduction in full Wilhelm Richard Wagner born May 22, 1813, Leipzig died Feb. 13, 1883, Venice German dramatic composer and theorist whose operas and music (music drama) had a revolutionary influence on the course of… …
7Charles Carleton Coffin — Born July 26, 1823(1823 07 26) Boscawen, New Hampshire[1] …
8India — /in dee euh/, n. 1. Hindi, Bharat. a republic in S Asia: a union comprising 25 states and 7 union territories; formerly a British colony; gained independence Aug. 15, 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Jan. 26, 1950.… …
9Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …
10Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
