Array Коллектив авторов: 30 лучших рассказов американских писателей

New Britain, New Ireland – islands of the Bismarck Archipelago in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

New Guinea – an island of the Malay Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean north of Australia.

the Admiralties – the island group of 40 islands in Papua New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

Guadalcanal – the largest island of the Solomon Islands in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.

the Yukon – a river in North America; it flows through northwestern Canada and the central regions of Alaska, US.

the Chilcoot Pass – a pass in the Rocky Mountains used as a way to the lands rich in gold.

Dyea – a river and town in the Rocky Mountains in Canada.

Dawson – a city in Canada on the border with Alaska, at the confluence of the Klondike and the Yukon Rivers, named for geologist George Dawson.

Nulato – a settlement on the Yukon River in Alaska.

St. Michael – an island on the Yukon River.

Bering Sea – a part of the Pacific Ocean in the north; it separates Asia from Alaska in North America.

Sixty Mile – a fort on the Yukon River.

Mercury – the closest to the Sun planet of the solar system.

anaesthetic – medicine that relieves pain or produces general loss of sensation.

Dagon – in the Middle East, the Semitic god of fertility, the legendary inventor of the plow.

the Great War – World War I of 1914–1918.

the Hun(s) – primitive nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century and built an enormous empire.

Paradise Lost – a famous poem by John Milton.

Stygian – 1) related to Styx, in Greek mythology, the river of the underworld, the symbol of death; 2) dark, gloomy.

Cyclopean – in Greek mythology, Cyclops are one-eyed giants and cannibals living a rude primitive life in a distant land.

hieroglyphics – a system of writing in the form of pictures which are used as symbols for words or syllables.

Doré – Gustave Doré (1832–1883), a famous French printmaker and book illustrator.

Piltdown (man) – an extinct man whose remains were discovered in 1810 by Charles Dawson, an English lawyer and geologist.

Neanderthal man – an archaic man who appeared 300 000 years ago and was replaced by modern humans 25 000–30 000 years ago.

Polyphemus – in Greek mythology, the most famous of the Cyclops.

ethnologist – a scientist who studies ethnology, a division of anthropology that deals with culture of different peoples of the world.

Philistine(s) – a people who lived in Palestine in the 12th century BC.

Cassius – 1) an active participant of the conspiracy against Julius Caesar in 44 BC; 2) a fictional character in ‘Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare.

Drury Lane – a London theatre famous for its musicals, founded in 1663 and officially known as the Theatre Royal.

jigembob = jig and bob; jig – a solo folk dance popular in Scotland, northern England and Ireland in the 16th–18th centuries; bob – an old Scottish dance.

Yankee Doodle – a popular song of the time of the American Revolution, written by Richard Shuckburgh.

Orpheus – in Greek mythology, a legendary hero with outstanding musical gift.

Cicero (106 BC–43 BC) – the greatest Roman orator, statesman, lawyer and writer.

La Place – Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), a French mathematician and astronomer, best known for his study of the solar system.

Sturm – Charles-François Sturm (1803–1855), a French mathematician who made important contribution to the theory of equations.

Newton – Isaac Newton (1643–1727), a great English physicist and mathematician, the major figure in the scientific revolution of the 17th century.

Giotto (1266–1337) – the greatest Italian painter of the 14th century.

Deus ex machina = God from the machine ( Latin ); unexpected help.

Alsatian – born in Alsace, a region of France on the German border.

Gallic – here: French.

Teuton – here: German.

Tahoe – Lake Tahoe in northern Sierra Nevada, on California-Nevada border in the USA.

aqua fortis = strong water. ( Latin )

orrery – a model of the solar system.

Aristotle (384 BC–322 BC) – an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, one of the greatest philosophers of all time.

Archimedes (290 BC–212 BC) – a famous ancient Greek mathematician and inventor.

Comte – Auguste Comte (1798–1857), a French philosopher, the founder of sociology as a science and the philosophy of positivism.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) – an English writer and poet.

Schlafen Sie wohl. = Have a good sleep. ( German )

Sylvester II (945–1003) – the head of the Roman Catholic church of France who later became Pope.

Roger Bacon (1220–1292) – a great English philosopher and scientist of the 13th century.

Thomas Aquinas (1224–1274) – an Italian theologian and philosopher, canonized in July, 1323.

Huyghens – Christian Huyghens (1629–1695), a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist.

Kerguellen’s Land – Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, discovered by de Kerguéllen-Trémarec and later explored by Captain James Cook.

Liebchen = sweetheart. ( German )

Vorwärts! = Forward! ( German )

Nicht wahr? = Isn’t it? ( German )

Um Gottes Willen = for God’s sake. ( German )

Madison Square – a square in central New York.

aquamarine (colour) – blue or green-blue.

Carrara – a city in Tuscany region in north-central Italy, famous for the world’s best marble of the same name.

Maupassant – Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893), a French writer and novelist who is considered the best French short-story writer.