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At the start of the 20th century, Mabel's popularity began a slow decline which accelerated from the 1930s; the name has seen very light usage since the 1960s. Due to its origin as an abridgement of Amabel it has been surmised that Mabel was originally pronounced with a short A, the name's pronunciation with a long A dating only from its mid ...
The first edition was published in 1897 by Dodd, Mead & Co. under the pseudonym "Rafford Pyke" with illustrations by Melanie Elisabeth Norton. [1] [2] At the time, Peck was the editor of The Bookman, a literary journal which published an effusive review of The Adventures of Mabel in December 1897 under the byline Nicholas Brown, [3] and had previously published an article under Peck's name ...
A palfrey usually was the most expensive and highly bred type of riding horse during the Middle Ages, [1] sometimes equalling the knight's destrier in price. Consequently, it was popular with nobles, ladies, and highly ranked knights for riding, hunting, and ceremonial use. [2]
The middle finger, long finger, second finger, [1] [2] third finger, [3] toll finger or tall man is the third digit of the human hand, located between the index finger and the ring finger. It is typically the longest digit. In anatomy, it is also called the third finger, digitus medius, digitus tertius or digitus III.
Queen Mab, illustration by Arthur Rackham (1906). Queen Mab is a fairy referred to in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which the character Mercutio famously describes her as "the fairies' midwife", a miniature creature who rides her chariot (which is driven by a team of atom-sized creatures) over the bodies of sleeping humans during the nighttime, thus helping them "give birth ...
Mabel of Bury St. Edmunds (13th-century) was an embroiderer in the Opus Anglicanum tradition. Her skill was such that she was one of the few artisans to appear by name in the royal records of Henry III : between the years 1239 and 1245 she appeared in the king’s writs no fewer than twenty-four times.
The researchers believe that this change was because a Bronze Age people called the Sintashta had domesticated their local horse and begun to use these animals to help them dramatically expand ...
Mabel Virginia Anna Bent (née Hall-Dare, a.k.a. Mrs J. Theodore Bent) (28 January 1847 – 3 July 1929), was an Anglo-Irish explorer, excavator, writer and photographer.. With her husband, J. Theodore Bent, she spent two decades (1877–1897) travelling, collecting and researching in remote regions of the Eastern Mediterranean, Asia Minor, Africa, and Arab