Array Коллектив авторов - 75 лучших рассказов / 75 Best Short Stories

mausolea– pl. from mausoleum

Puritans– followers of Puritanism, a religious movement of the 16th–17th centuries aimed at purifying the Church of England

Pigafetta– Antonio Pigafetta, the Italian chronicler of the Magellan expedition in 1519–1522; he was also the author of two small dictionaries of Austronesian family of languages

De Bry– Flemish engravers of German origin of the 16th century

Anziques– Kingdom of Anziku, a historic African state on the Congo River

Isaiah Thomas(1749–1831) – an American journalist and printer

the Orkney (islands)– a group of more than 70 islands in northern Scotland

the Shetland Islands– a group of about 100 islands in the north of Scotland

à la Mode= in the latest fashion ( French )

Titania– in Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, a fictional character, the queen of fairies who opposes her husband

mes amis= my friends (French )

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

the Cockneys– here: native Londoners

Portsmouth– a city on Portsea Island in the historic county of Hampshire, a naval base and a resort

the battle of Naseby– the battle between the Parliamentary Army under Oliver Cromwell and the royalists in June, 1645

Senlac– the place of the famous battle in which the English were defeated by the Normans under William the Conqueror in 1066

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 Sylvester II

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– Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695), a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist

Kerguellen’s Land– Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, discovered by de Kerguelen-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 Toscana 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

Marion Crawford– Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909), an American novelist, poet and journalist

Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1850–1919) – an American poet and journalist

Sic transit gloria urbis. – So passes the glory of the town. ( Latin )

Caliphs– here: rulers; caliph is a ruler in a Moslem community.

Oratama– a Spanish town invented by the author

alcalde– the head (both administrative and judicial) of a town or village in Spain