When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Magnificence (history of ideas) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnificence_(history_of...

    [1] [clarification needed] Magnificence (μεγαλοπρεπεια) is one of the virtues listed by Meno in Plato's dialogue of that name. [2] Magnificence is the special quality in Plato's conception of the philosopher-king, as presented in the fifth and sixth books of The Republic. Only those with a philosophical and educational temperament ...

  3. Catherine de' Medici's court festivals - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_de'_Medici's...

    Ball at the Court of Henri III (detail), Franco-Flemish school, c. 1582.. A series of lavish and spectacular court entertainments, sometimes called magnificences, were laid on by Catherine de' Medici, the queen consort of France from 1547 to 1559 and queen mother from 1559 until her death in 1589.

  4. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword_abbreviations

    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  5. Magnificence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnificence

    Magnificence may refer to: Magnificence (history of ideas) Magnificence, one of Catherine de' Medici's court festivals in 16th-century France;

  6. Cardinal virtues - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_virtues

    The cardinal virtues are four virtues of mind and character in classical philosophy.They are prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.They form a virtue theory of ethics.

  7. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosswordese

    Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...

  8. Wind from the Carolinas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_from_the_Carolinas

    They were subjected to taunts and violence. At their request transports of the Royal Navy took entire families, their slaves, livestock, furnishings, and in some cases, even the bricks of their manors to the Bahamas. There they attempted to recreate the Colonial magnificence they had known with mansions, slave quarters and vast cotton fields.

  9. The Faerie Queene - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene

    The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and over 4,000 stanzas, [1] it is one of the longest poems in the English language; it is also the work in which Spenser invented the verse form known as the Spenserian ...