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11Kettu Kalyanam — Kettu Kalyanam, also known as Thali Kettu was the name of an elaborate marriage ceremony of the Malayala Kshatriyas, Samanthans,Nairs, Maaran, Ezhava and Ambalavasis communities of the Indian state of Kerala. The customs varied from region to… …
12Peter Warlock — was a pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine (30 October 1894 17 December 1930), an Anglo Welsh composer and music critic. Although he used his own name when writing as a music critic, he composed under the pseudonym Peter Warlock and is now better …
13Táin Bó Cúailnge — Táin redirects here. For the genre of early Irish literature, see Táin Bó. Cú Chulainn in battle, from T. W. Rolleston, Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race, 1911; illustration by Joseph Christian Leyendecker Táin Bó Cúailnge (Irish pronunciation …
14George Puttenham — (1529–1590) is the reputed English author of The Arte of English Poesie (1589).FamilyGeorge was the second son of Robert Puttenham of Sherfield on Loddon in Hampshire and his wife Margaret, the daughter of Sir Richard Elyot and sister of Sir… …
15William Crossing — (1847 1928) was a writer and documenter of Dartmoor and Dartmoor life. He lived at Brentor and at Mary Tavy.He was born in Plymouth, November 14, 1847. From his earliest youth he was fond of Dartmoor, his early associations centring around the… …
16David A. Embury — David Augustus Embury (November 3, 1886 in Pine Woods, New York July 6, 1960 in New Rochelle, New York) was an American attorney and author of The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks (1948), a classic encyclopedia of the 20th century cocktail. The book is… …
17Sebastian Westcott — Sebastian Westcott † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Sebastian Westcott English organist, born about 1524, was a chorister, under Redford, at St. Paul s Cathedral, London, and in 1550 became organist, almoner, and master of the boys of that… …
18Raffles, Gentleman Thug — is a comic strip featured in adult comic Viz featuring a nineteenth century nobleman given to immense erudition and wanton violence . The basic premise is a nod/ripoff of E. W. Hornung s Raffles the Thief character, the main difference being that …
19Rinderraub von Cooley — Die Táin Bó Cúailnge (irisch: Rinderraub von Cooley, oft kurz Táin genannt) ist die zentrale Sage des Ulster Zyklus, eines der vier großen Zyklen der altirischen Mythologie. Niedergeschrieben wurde das Epos auf Alt und Mittelirisch; es ist… …
20Táin — Die Táin Bó Cúailnge (irisch: Rinderraub von Cooley, oft kurz Táin genannt) ist die zentrale Sage des Ulster Zyklus, eines der vier großen Zyklen der altirischen Mythologie. Niedergeschrieben wurde das Epos auf Alt und Mittelirisch; es ist… …
