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Jacques le Moyne de Morgues Biography
Jacques le Moyne de Morgues artist, cartographer Born: c. 1533Birthplace: Dieppe, France A French cartographer (mapmaker) and painter, Le Moyne de Morgues produced the first map of Florida.…Other American Library Association Awards for Children's Books, 2001
Also see the Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal winnners.2001 Coretta Scott King Awards, honoring black authors and illustrators: (author): Miracle Boys, Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam)(…Brewer's: Petrarch
The English Petrarch. Sir Philip Sidney; so called by Sir Walter Raleigh. Cowper styles him “the warbler of poetic prose.” (1554-1586.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Colin Clout
A name which Spenser assumes in The Shepherd's Calendar, and in the pastoral entitled Colin Clout's Come Home Again, which represents his return from a visit to Sir Walter Raleigh, “the…Brewer's: Baga de Secretis
Records in the Record Office of trials for high treason and other State offences from the reign of Edward IV. to the close of the reign of George III. These records contain the proceedings…Brewer's: Shepherd of the Ocean
(The). So Sir Walter Raleigh is called by Spenser, in his poem entitled Colin Clout's Come Home Again. (1552-1618.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Shepherd…Brewer's: Knight of the Cloak
(The). Sir Walter Raleigh. So called from his throwing his cloak into a puddle for Queen Elizabeth to step on as she was about to enter her barge. (See Kenilworth, chap. xv.) “Your…Brewer's: Alligator
When the Spaniards first saw this reptile in the New World, they called it el lagarto (the lizard). Sir Walter Raleigh called these creatures lagartos, and Ben Jonson alligartas. “To the…Brewer's: El Dorado
Golden illusion; a land or means of unbounded wealth. Orellana, lieutenant of Pizarro, pretended he had discovered a land of gold ( el dorado) between the rivers Orinoco and Amazon, in…Brewer's: Sidney
(Algernon), called by Thomson, in his Summer, “The British Cassius,” because of his republican principles. Both disliked kings, not from their misrule, but from a dislike to monarehy.…Trending
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