SINE DIABLO NULLUS DOMINUS

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(a) from the Phoenician and Hebrew aleph: 1, 1000, ox; the Greek alpha (α); Arabic ‘alif; runic ansuz: signals, Loki, mouth; Scottish ailm: the palm tree; ampere; answer; acceleration; adjective; Helmholz function; anarchy; the beginning; highest grade or start.

The Prime Directive: To not interfere with natural development of any living, growing culture or civilization, in any period or dimension unless proven dangerous to other distinctively separate cultures.  (see Non-interference Directive, Star Trek)

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

“1. Principle is endowed in me by Heaven, not drilled into me from outside.  If one understands that principle is the same as master and really makes it his master, one cannot be influenced by external things or fooled by perverse doctrines.”

-Lu Hsiang-shan

A1 (abbr. of first class)

°A (abbr. of degree absolute, now Kelvin)

Å (abbr. of angstrom)

A (abbr. of anion)

AA (abbr. of Alcoholics Anonymous, amino acid, aminoacyl or August Audio)

AAA (abbr. of American Automobile Association or abdominal aortic aneurysm)

AAC (abbr. of augmentative and alternative communication)

Aalto, Alvar (Finnish architect)

Aardwolf (Dutch: earth wolf [Protles cristata])

Aardvark (Dutch: earth pig [Orycterpus])

Aasen, Ivar (Norgwegian philologist & lexicographer)

ABA (abbr. of American Bar Association)

‘Abba ‘Arika (Babylonian ‘amora)

Abbas (king of Persia)

Abbr. (abbr. of abbreviation)

Abbott, Bud (American comedian, Abbott & Costello)

Abdul, Aziz (32nd sultan of Turkey)

Abdul, Aziz Ibn Saud (king of Saudi Arabia)

Abdul-Hamid I & II (sultans of Turkey)

Abdul Me Jid (sultan of Turkey)

Abdur, Rahman Khan (amir of Afghanistan)

Abeetung (Ojibway: he who is [free])

Abel (Hebrew: breath)

Abenezra (Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra, Jewish poet & scholar)

Abercrombie, Lascelles (English poet)

Abercrombie, James (English general)

Abimelech (Philistine king)

Abraham (Hebrew rain god)

Abraham, Ibn David (Jewish philosopher)

So leben wir nehmen immer Abschied.  -Rainer Maria Rilke

Absolute (Latin: solve)

Absolute Zero (lowest temperature theoretically possible, O K=-273.15 C)

“We join with the great majority of Canadians to demand prompt, fair settlement of the territorial and treaty claims of First Nations people, to secure their linguistic, cultural and spiritual needs in harmony with their environment.

“We join with the Canadian people in their support for native self-government and believe that First Nations people should be actively involved in the definition and implementation of this concept.”

-Citizens’ Forum on Canada’s Future

Abu-Bekr (1st caliph of Muslim Empire, father-in-law of Muhammad)

Abu Graib (Iraq)  see Guatanamo Bay.

AC (abbr. of alternating current or ante Christum, Latin: before Christ [BC])

“For nearly a century they were strangers to France and to Canada.  They had formed habits and built up traditions that made them a seperate people.  They were Acadians.”  -Edouard Richard

Acheba, Chinua (Nigerian Ibo writer)

Acheron (river in Hades)

Achilles (Greek hero of Troy, son of Thetis)

Acker (German: field)

ACLU (abbr. of American Civil Liberties Union)

Actus Reus (Latin, law: physical evidence) 1.circumstancial 2.voluntary physical act 3.consequences.

AD (Latin abbr. of anno Domini: year of our Lord)

ADA (abbr. of American Dental Association or Americans for Democratic Action)

Adams, Ansel (American photographer)

Adams; John & jr. (American presidents)

It would be superfluous for me to point out your lordship that this means war.  -Charles Follen Adams

Adamson, Al (American director)

Addams, Charles (American cartoonist, The Addams Family)

Addams, Jane (American social reformer)

Addison, Joseph (British poet & statesman)

Am I distinguished from you but by toils,
Superior toils, and heavier weight of cares?
Painful pre-eminence! 

Adelaide (queen of Italy)

Admetus (indomitable, king of Pharae, the eromenos of Apollo & handsome, hospitable host of Heracles)

Admetus (king of Thessaly)

Adrenaline (epinephrine)

Adolph (of Nassua, king of Germany)

Adolphus, Frederick (king of Sweden)

Aed (king of Scotland)

Aedile (from Latin aedilis: [one] concerned with buildings) Architecture in general is frozen music.  -Friedrich Von Schelling

Aegeus (king of Athens)

Aegir (Norse sea god)

Aegis (Zeus’ shield)

Aegisthus (son of Thyestes & his daughter Pelopia, the blameless one, who kills Atreus)

Aegisthus (king of Argos)

Aelfric (Grammaticus, English abbot & writer)

Aeneas (Trojan prince, son of Venus)

Aeolus (Greek god of wind)

Aeolipile (the steam engine invented by Hero of Alexandria, 100 AC)

Aepyeornis (Latin: giant flightless bird, e.1660’s)

Aerope (Cretan wife of Atreus)

Aeschylus (father of Greek tragedy) I would rather live as a coward in the service of a poor peasant, with barely enough to eat, than reign over all these wasted dead.

Aesculapius (Greek god of medicine, son of Apollo & Coronis, father of Hygeie & Panacea)

Aesir (Norse: the gods)

Aesop (Phrygian philosopher)

Aestus (Latin: tide)

Aethelred (king or Mercia)

Aethelred (king of West Saxons)

Aethelred II (king of England)

Aethelstan (king of Saxons)

Agave (sister of Semele, mother of Pentheus)

Agememnon (High King of Argos, brother of Menelaus)

Agenor (King of Tyre, father of Europa)

Agesilaus II (king of Sparta)

Aggelos (Greek: messenger, hence English angel)

Agis I, III & IV (kings of Sparta)

Saint Agnes (patron saint of virgins)

Agnus Dei (Latin: lamb of God)

Agoult, Marie Catherine Countess D’ (Daniel Stern, French writer)

Agrippina (the elder, wife of Germanicus, mother of Caligula)

Agrippina (the younger, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero)

Aguilar, Grace (Jewish historian)

Ahab (king of Israel)

Ahasuerus (king of Persia)

Ahaz (king of Judah)

Ahmed I, II & III (sultans of Turkey)

Ahmed, Mirza (shah of Persia)

Ahnoch (Cree: today)

Ahriman (Zoroastrianism: spirit of evil)

AI (abbr. artificial intelligence or artificial insemination)

Ai (Chinese: love, sorrow)

Saint Aidan (Irish monk & missionary)

“The revolution was started by young Freemasons in lodges which had been taken over by revolutionary groups.  The most important of these was a secret organization of called Aide-toi, le ciel t’aidera (Help yourself and Heaven will help you).  Most of its members were Freemasons.  It was these young men who manned the barricades against the police and the army during the Three Glorious Days of 25–27 July 1830.  In fierce street fighting, and at the cost of many lives, they first gained control of the working-class suburbs to the east of Paris, the traditionally revolutionary district of the Faubourg St Antoine, and eventually captured the Town Hall.  Charles X abdicated and fled to England.”  -Jasper Ridley, The Freemasons

AIDS (abbr. acquired immune dificiency syndrom)

Aikido (Japanese, the way of the samurai)

Aimer (French: to love)

Ainsworth: “The length of time it takes to get served in a camera shop.  Hence, also, how long we will have to wait for the abolition of income tax and the Second Coming.”  -The Book of Liff

Air-conditioning: “An efficient and widely used method for spreading disease.”  -John Ralston Saul  (see The Doubter’s Companion)

“President Truman’s Air Force Secretary put the matter simply: we should not use the word “subsidy,” he said; the word we should use is “security.”  He made sure that military budget would “meet the requirements of the aircraft industry,” as he put it.  One consequence is that civilian aircraft is now the country’s leading export, and the huge travel and tourism industry, aircraft-based, is the source of major profits.”  -Noam Chomsky

“What if somebody blows up a 747 over the Olympic Stadium, or even flies one into the stadium?”

The Special Agent in charge of the Atlanta FBI Office was under the cross-examination for the Washington know-it-alls.  “Sounds like Tom Clancy to me,” he sneered.  I glared at him.  “But if it happens, well, that’s an FAA problem,” he answered.

“Okay.  Admiral Flynn?”  I turned to Cathal Flynn, the retired Navy SEAL who ran FAA security.  Born in Ireland and having spent twenty-five years in the U.S. navy with the name Cathal, Flynn liked to be called “Irish.”

“Well, Dick, we could ban aircraft from over the Stadium during the events by posting a Notice to Airmen,” Irish responded.

“But what if a terrorist hijacks an aircraft and violates that ban?”  I asked.

“Then we would call the Air Force if we saw the aircraft violation ban on radar.  But by then it would be too late,” Flynn intoned in his deep baritone.  “But, of course, we would not even see them on radar if they shut down the transponder on the aircraft.  You see, our radars are not air defense radars.  Our air traffic control radars rely on the aircraft sending out a radio signal to us to tell us its altitude.”  -Richard A. Clarke

Aithiops (Greek: burnt face)

Ajax (the Great, king of Salamis, fought & died at Troy, son of Telamon)

Akbar (Jelal-ed-din-Mohammed, Mogul emperor)

Akhenaton (Ikhnaton, Amenhotep IV; king of Egypt)

Akhmatova, Anna (Anna Andreevna Gorenko, Russian Poet)

Akins, Zoe (American writer)

Akiyoshi, Toshiko (秋吉 敏子 or 穐吉 敏子, Japanese American jazz pianist and composer)

Akua (Hawaiian: God)

Al Aqsa (Palestinian Authority terrorist wing)

Alaric I & II (kings of Visigoths)

Albain (Irish: Scotland)

Albanach (Irish: Scottish, An dli… Scot’s Law)

Albert I & II (kings of Germany)

Albert, Frederick Augustus (king of Saxons)

Albert, Leopold Clement-Marie Meinrad (king of Belgium)

Alberti, Leon Battista (Italian painter)

Albertus, Magnus (Greek theologian)

Albini, Steve (American sound engineer)

Albinoni, Tomaso (Italian violinist & composer)

Albion (Latin: England or Great Britain)

Alcaeus (Greek poet)

Alcestis (wife of Admetus, sacrificed herself for him, only example of philia in women of Greek mythology, saved by Heracles)

Alcinous (king of Phaeacians)

Alcmene (mother of Heracles)

Alcot, Louisa May (American novelist)

Alcyone (daughter of Aeolus)

al-Din Bihzad, Kamal (Persian painter)

Alembert, Jean le Rond D’ (French philopher & mathematician)

Alexander (king of Poland)

Alexander I, II & III (czars of Russia)

Alexander I, II & III (kings of Scotland)

Alexander (king of Epirus)

Alexander (the Great, king of Macedon)

Alexander, Obrenovitch (king of Serbia)

Alexander (king of Greece)

Alexander (king of Yugaslavia)

Alexander, Severus (Roman emperor)

Alexander, Lincoln MacCauley (lieutenant-governor of Ontario)

Alexander, William, Earl of Stirling (Scottish poet & “colonizer”)

Alexandra (queen of Great Britain)

Alexandra (last czarina of Russia)

Library of Alexandria (e. 48 AC)

Alexei, Michailovich (czar of Russia)

Alexius I, II & III (Byzantine emperors)

Al-Fassi, Hatoon Ajwad (هتون أجواد الفاسي, Saudi Arabian professor & activist)

Alfonso VIII, X, XI, XII & XIII (kings of Spain)

Alfonso (1st king of Portugal)

Alfred (the Great, king of Wessex)

Alhazen (Arab mathematician)

Alhazred, Abdul (the mad Arab, author of the accursed Necronomicon) see Lovecraft.

Al-Huwaider, Wajeha (وجيهة الحويدر‎, Saudi Arabian activist)

Alien (Ridley Scott)

Ali, Muhammad (Cassius Clay, Cassius X; American boxer)

Alitros (Greek: rascal)

Alkaloids (organic, containing at least 1 nitrogen atom)  see Codeine, Cocaine, Nicotine, Quinine & Morphine.

Alke (Greek: strength)

As time requireth, a man of marvellous mirth and pastimes, and sometime of as sad gravity, as who say: a man for all seasons.  -Robert Whittington

Al’lah (Arabic: the God)

Allen, Fred (John Florence Sullivan, American comedian)

Allen, Steve (American comedian)

Allen, Viola (American actress)

Alleyn, Edmund (Canadian artist)

Alleyn, Edward (English actor)

Al-Nafjan, Eman (Saudi Arabian activist)

Aloha (Hawaiian: love)

Alpheus (the hunter, who after failing to catch Artemis, became a river to join Arethusa)

Al-Sharif, Manal (منال الشريف‎, Saudi Arabian activist)

AM (abbr. amplitude modulation, americium, ante meridiem or present indicative of be)

Amedeus (king of Spain)

Amalric I & II (kings of Jerusalem)

Amasis I & II (kings of Egypt)

Ame f. (French: soul)

Amenhotep I, II, III & IV (pharaohs of Egypt)

Amer (French: bitter)

America (from Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer & mapmaker; lands west & south of Greenland, east of Asia; the United States)

“I am the point of the weapon.”  -Amergin

Amer-terasu (Japanese sun goddess)

Ami m. (French: friend)

Amish (orthodox Anabaptist sect that separated from Mennonites, after Jacob Amman)

Amitie: c’est un contrat tacite entre deux personnes sensibles et vertueuses.  -Voltaire

Amo (Latin: I love [Scott clan motto], Italian Adam)

Amon (Egyptian god of life)

Amour m. (French: love)

AMP (abbr. adenosine monophosphate, ampere or amplifier)

Amphitrite (Greek nereid, wife of Poseidon)

Amphitryon (king of Tiryns)

Amurath I, II, III, IV & V (sultans of Turkey)

Amyntas II (king of Macedonia)

Anacharsis (Scythian philosopher)

Anacreon (Greek poet)

Ananke (Greek: necessity, daughter of Kronos, mother of the Fates)

Anarchy (Greek: lack of a leader)

Anax (Greek: king)

Anaxagoras (Greek philosopher)

Anaximander (Greek philosopher)

Anaximenes (Greek philosopher)

Anchises (prince of Troy, father of Aeneas)

Anderson, Hans Christian (Danish writer)

Anderson, Marian (American contralto singer)

Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d’Agnolo, Florentine painter)

Andrew I, II & III (kings of Hungary)

Andrews, Irene Osgood (American sociologist)

Andromache (wife of Hector)

Andromeda (daughter of Cepheus)

Andronicus I, II, III & IV (Byzantine emperors)

Ani ohev otakh (Hebrew: I love you)

Angelico, Fra (Guido di Pietro, Florentine painter)

Angleton, James Jesus (American Chief of the Office of Special Operations for the CIA [1949])

Anglin, Margaret Frances Mary (Canadian actress)

The Angstones (Ottawa band)

Angstrom, Anders Jonas (Swedish physicist)

Angurboda (Norse giant, wife of Loki)

Angus, Charles Joseph (Canadian musician and MP)

Anka, Paul (Ottawa singer & composer)

Ankou (Death of Brittany)

Aneirin (Celtic poet)

Anna, Comnena (Byzantine princess & historian)

Anna, Ivanovna (empress of Russia)

Anne, Queen (Great Britain, Ireland, 12 American colonies, seven Caribbean islands, Gibraltar, Minorca, Nova Scotia & New Brunswick; House of Stuart, last Scottish ruler)

Saint Anne (patron saint of carpentry)

Anning, Mary (English palaeontologist)

Annus (Latin: year)

Annwn (Welsh Otherworld)

Answers: “A mechanism for avoiding questions.”  -John Ralston Saul

Antaeus (Libyan giant, son of Poseidon & Gaia)

Anu (Sumerian sky god)

Anus: “Excretory opening at end of alimentary canal.”  -The Pocket Oxford Dictionary

Anything is possible.

Aonaibh ri cheile.  -Cameron clan motto

Apate (Deceit, serving maid of Aphrodite)

Apelles (Greek painter)

A is also for Apple (this is the fruit that gave mankind knowledge in Jewish scripture), Adam & Apollo.

Aphrodite (Greek goddess of love)

Apowawin (Ojibway: lucid dream)

April (Greek: Aphrodite, Latin aprilis: to open) 4th, 1968: Martin Luther King jr. is assassinated in Memphis, TN; 8th, 1994: Kurt Cobain is found dead in Seattle; 14th & 15th, 1912: Titanic sinks, 1503 people die; 17th, 1961: U.S. invasion of Cuba (Bay of Pigs), 1982: Constitutional Independence of Canada; 18th, 1949: Eire is recognized by British Parliament.

“Our recent record is not good in that part of the world.  The Arabs are no more afraid of our threats and bombs and technology than the North Vietnamese were.  They seem to have other plans, for good or for ill, and on some days you can get a strange feeling–despite the current chaos in the price of OPEC oil–that we are not really included.  They are looking beyond “The American Century,” as Henry Luce called it, and even the Islamic calender puts the year 2001 less than a dog’s life away from today.”  -Hunter S. Thompson, January 13, 1986.

Arab Spring (began December 2010, a wave of revolution & protest, from Western Sahara to Oman)

Arany, Janoz (Hungarian poet)

Arcadius (Byzantine emperor)

Arcand, Denys (Canadian director)

Arcesilaus (Greek philosopher)

Arche (Greek: beginning)

Archelaus (king of Judea)

Archelaus (king of Macedon)

Archelaus (Greek philosopher, thought earth was spherical)

Archilochus (Greek poet, invented iambic verse)

Archimedes (Greek inventor & mathematician)

“Are you sitting comfortably?  Then I’ll begin.”  -Julia S. Lang

Area 51 (Dreamlake, “secret” American airbase, longest runway in the world; U2; A-12, Sr-71 [Blackbirds]; B2 Stealthbomber, F-117 Stealthfighter; Predator; &c)

Ares (Greek war god)

Arete (Greek: excellence, virtue)

Arethusa (Nymph of Artemis, turned herself into a spring to escape Alpheus)

Aretino, Pietro (Italian writer)

Argus (Greek demigod of 100 eyes)

Ariadne (Moni’s daughter)

Aristaeus (son of Apollo & the Nymph Cyrene)

Aristarchus (of Samothrace, Greek grammarian)

Aristippus (of Cyrene, Greek philosopher)

Aristophanes (Greek comic poet)

Aristotle (Greek philosopher) For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious study than history.

Aristrarchus (Greek astronomer, calculated that earth orbits the sun [310-230 AC])

Arminius, Jacobus (Dutch religious leader)

Armstrong, Louis (American jazz trumpet player & singer)

Armstrong, Neil Aiden (American astronaut & 1st man on the moon)

Arndt, Ernst Moritz (German poet)

Arnold, Jack (American director)

Arnulf (Roman emperor)

Arouse, Ye Toiling Millions!

Arouse!  Ye toiling millions, is there nothing to be found

That will raise you to the standard gauge of men that are not bound?

Awake, ye toiling millions, is there nothing left in store

That’s worth the looking after, that would heal ev’ry sore?

Look up ye toiling millions, for there must be something wrong

In a system that denies you work to push yourself along:

When one man strips a thousand of the products of their toil,

Drives children into cellars, while his in a mansion smile.

 

Arouse!  Ye toiling millions, there is something wrong;

If you persevere and study, you will learn the cause e’re long,

Does the true blame not rest with you? is it not within your power

To build a better system, regulate the working hour?

There will be no need of fighting, begging of your fellow man

To give you leave to labour, when all know the coming plan.

Be ye millions once united what a change in trade would come,

And the speculative gambler will reluctantly succumb.

 

Only let the sparks of malice in the bosom be once quench’d,

And the morbid seeds of discord be from other subjects wrench’d,

Let the millions once in harmony stand firmly side by side,

And the rights of labour branches will extend out far and wide,

Then arouse ye toiling millions, be united one and all,

To let the right of labour be your motto when we call,

March onward with your banner, for true freedom must yet come,

And by you, ye toiling millions, that great battle shall be won.  –anonymous, The Commonwealth, 1880

Arrested Development (Speech, Headliner, Aerle Taree, Montsho Eshe, Rasa Don & Baba Oje; or a Jason Bateman vehicle)

ART (abbr. acoustic reflex threshold)

Artaxerxes I, II, III & IV (kings of Persia)

Artemis (Greek goddess of the hunt)

Artemisia (queen of Halicarnassus)

Asa (king of Judah)

Ascanius (son of Aeneas)

Asclepius (Greek god of healing, son of Apollo)

Asgard (Norse heaven)

Asiatic Buffalo (Indian, 1 of the WMES)

Asmodeus (Avestan Aesma-daeva: spirit of anger)

Asoka (Indian emperor)

Ass (Norse: a god)

Assalam ‘alaikum (Arabic: peace to you)

Assange, Julian Paul (Australian publisher & founder of WikiLeaks)

Assur-Bani-Bal (Assyrian king)

Astaire, Fred (Frederick Austerlitz, American song & dance man)

Astarte (Phoenician goddess of love & fertility)

Astraea (Greek goddess of justice)

Ate (Greek: divine infatuation, “moral blindness;” Greek goddess of evil & discord, daughter of Zeus)

Aterius (the Minotaur, son of Pasiphae)

Athalia (queen of Judah)

Athamas (King of Orchomenos, son of Aeolus)

Athazagoraphobia: fear of forgetting.

Athelstan (king of Wessex & Mercia)

Athena (Greek goddess of wisdom & art)

Atimia (Greek: loss of civil rights)

Atkinson, Rowan (English comedian)

Atlantis (Santorini, country surrounding Thera in the Aegean sea) “They did not try to reconstruct the empire that had been destroyed, for they were acting according to a universal plan, and it is the whole world that is destined to become the New Atlantis.  The sages have directed our evolution through the centuries, revealing their wisdom to us as we reach the stage where we can use it without again endangering the world.  Their knowledge came from another galaxy.  It was brought by those who became the first leaders of the Atlanteans.  Some of them remained on the earth to continue their instruction; others returned to their point of origin.”  -The Sorcerer’s Handbook

Atlas (son of Poseidon, Titan condemned to hold up the sky for rebelling against the gods)

Atman (Sanskrit: soul or self)

ATP (abbr. adenosine triphosphate, chemical which stores energy in living cells)

Atreus (son of Pelops, father of Agamemnon)

Atreus (king of Mycenae)

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (John DeBello)

Attenborough, Sir Richard (British actor)

Attila (king of Huns)

Atwood, Margaret Eleanor (Canadian writer)

August (Augustus Caesar)

Augusta, Marie Luise Katharina (empress of Germany)

Augusta, Victoria (empress of Germany & queen of Prussia)

Augustulus, Romulus (last Roman emperor)

Augustus, Caesar (Gaius Julius Octavianus, Roman emperor)

Aurelian (Roman emperor)

Austen, Jane (English writer)

Austin, Sarah (English writer, mother of Lady Duff-Gordon)

AV (abbr. average, avoirdupois, ad valorem, audio visual, authorized version, Andrew Vincent or 11th month of Hebrew calender)

Avatar (Sanskrit: descent)

Avery, Oswald Theodore (Canadian bacteriologist)

Avogadro’s Law: at equal temperature, pressure & volume in all gases contain the same number of molecules.

AWOL (abbr. absent without leave)

Aya (Apalai: mother)

Aye (Scottish: yes)

Ayeen (Hebrew: nothing)

‘Ayeen (Hebrew: 16th letter of the aleph-bet: [‘]; 70; eye; spring or fountain)

Aykroyd, Dan (Canadian actor)

Azazel (Hebrew: removal, the rebel angel)

Azrael (Hebrew: God has helped, the Hebrew & Islamic angel that takes the soul from the body at death)

Aztec (Nahuah: men of the north, Nahuatl: near the crane)

_…

(be) from the Phoenician bayt: house; Greek beta (β); Hebrew bet: 2, 2000, house; Arabic ba; runic berkana: growth, birch tree; Scottish beith: the birch tree; chemistry: boron; susceptance; magnetic flux density (induction), baryon number; bishop; born; brother; the 2nd grade or next destination.

B- (abbr. electron)

B+ (abbr. positron)

Ba (abbr. barium or Egyptian: soul)

Baba (Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Swahili, Mandarin & Bengali: father)

Babel (Akkadian Bab-ilu: God’s gate)

Baby seals: “A superior form of life which holds animistic power over the European imagination.”  -John Ralston Saul

Bacall, Lauren (American actress)

Bach, Johann Sebastian (German composer)

Bache; Francis & Walter (English musicians)

Backlash: “In 1966, a commentator, speaking of “the grand new word, backlash,” claimed without much exaggeration that “just about everything that happened could be (and was) attributed to some form of backlash.” The word came to stand for a topsy-turvy rebellion in which white people with relative societal power perceived themselves as victimized by what they described as overly aggressive African Americans demanding equal rights. Backlash, as the New York Times columnist Tom Wicker wrote, “is nothing more nor less than white resentment of Negroes.”” -Lawrence Glickman, The Atlantic

Bacon, Albion Fellows (American social reformer)

Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans (English philosopher)

Bacon, Francis (British painter)

Bactrian camel (2 humps)

Badawi, Samar Mohammad (سمر بدوي‎, Saudi Arabian activist)

Baer, Karl Ernst von (Estonian zoologist)

Baez, Joan (American folk singer)

Baffin, William (English navigator)

Bagge, Peter (American comics artist & writer, Hate)

Baggesen, Jens Immanuel (Danish poet)

Bahadur, Shah II (last Mogul emperor of Hindustan)

Bahai (founded by Bahaullah in 1863)

Bahram I, II, II, IV & V (Persian kings)

Bailey, Nathan (English lexicographer)

Baillie, Lady Grizel (Scottish poet)

Baird, John Logie (Scottish developer of the television)

Balder (Norse god of sun, light, peace & justice)

Baldwin I, II & IV (kings of Jerusalem)

Baldwin I & II (emperors of Rumania)

Baldwin; Alec, Daniel, Stephen & William (American actors)

Baldwin, James Arther (American writer)

Balinese Tiger (e.1952)

Ball, Lucille (American comedian & studio head, Desilu; Star Trek, Mission: Impossible)

Balzac, Honore de (French novelist)

Ban (king of Scotland)

Ban (Persian: lord of masters)

Bancrotf; Sir Squire & Lady Effie Wilton (English actors)

Band, Charles (American director)

Bandello, Matteo (Italian novelist)

Bang, Hermann Joachim (Danish novelist)

Bangs, John Kendrick (American novelist)

Banks, Iain (Scottish writer)

Bankers: “Pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.”  -John Ralston Saul

Bannisteria caapi (Latin: harmaline, banisterine, telephathine), called yage or ayuahuaska.

Banner, Dr. Bruce (Bill Bixby, Mark Ruffalo)

Banting, Sir Frederick Grant (Canadian physician, co-discoverer of insulin)

Bapa (Malay: father)

Barbarella (Roger Vadim, Jane Fonda)

Barbauld, Anna Letitia (English poet)

Barclay, Alexander (Scottish poet)

Barclay, John (Scottish satirist)

Bardot, Brigitte (French actress & model)

Barker, Elsa (American author)

Barlach, Ernest (German artist & poet)

Barlow, Jane (Irish author)

Barmy (British slang: crazy or foolish)

Barnard, Lady Anne (Scottish poet)

Barnes, William (English poet & philologist)

Barnes & Barnes (Fish Heads)

Barnveldt, Jan Van Olden (Dutch statesman)

Barnum, Phineas Taylor (American showman)  There’s a sucker born every minute.

Barocchio, Giacomo (Italian architect)

Baron, Michel (French actor)

Barque (“three-masted ship, square-rigged o the fore and main masts, and fore-and-aft on the mizzen.”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia)

Barr, Robert (Scottish writer)

Barratry “(1) Act of stirring up quarrels or breaches of the peace. (2) Fraudulent act by a master-mariner against the owner of a ship, ebezzlement, etc.  (3) In Scots law, the crime of a judge who accepts bribery.”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

Barrett, Lawrence (American actor)

Barrett, Syd (British folk musician, Pink Floyd)

Barrias; Felix Joseph & Louis Ernest (French artists)

Barrie, Sir James Matthew (Scottish writer)  There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

Barrientos, Maria (Spanish coloratura soprano)

Barrington, George (Waldron, Irish actor)

Barron, James (American naval commander)

Barrow, Isaac (English mathematician)

Barrowman, John Scot (American actor, Captain Jack Harkness)

Barry, Elizabeth (English actress)

Barry, John (American naval commander)

Barry; Ann Street & Spangler (Irish actors)

Barrymore; Drew, Ethel, Goergiana, John, Maurice & Lionel (American actors)

Bartel, Paul (American director)

Bartholdi, Frederick Auguste (French sculptor, Statue of Liberty)

Bartholomew, John (Scottish cartographer, founded the Edinburgh Geographical Institute)

Bartlett, Robert Abram (Canadian explorer)

Barton, Clarissa Harlowe (American founder of the Red Cross)

Baryshnikov, Mikhail (Russian dancer)

Basawan (Indian painter)

Bashkirtseff, Marie (Russian writer, artist & musician)

Basic Income (see Pay)

Basil I & II (Byzantine emperors)

Basilides (Gnostic philosopher)

Basilisk: “imaginary malignant monster of the ancients (cockatrice); genus of lizards.”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

Basie, Count (William, American jazz musician)

Basketball (James Naismith)

Basselin, Oliver (Vaux-de-vire, French poet)

Bast (Egyptian cat goddess)

Bataille, Henry (French writer)

Bate, Dr. Humphrey (and his Possum Hunters, American country harmonica player)

Bateman; Hezekiah Linthicum, Sidney Frances, Kate & Ellen (American actors)

Bateman; Jason & Justine (American actors)

Order of Bath (“order of chivalry in U.K., founded 1399, refounded 1725 and 1815, and frequently extended since.  Originally a purely military order, it received in 1815, a civil element; was remodeled in 1847, and since then several times enlarged; the civil and military badges, which are slightly different, alike bear the motto, Tria junct a in uno, about rose, shamrock, and thistle, ceremony of installation restored by the King (1913); first held May 1920.”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

Saint Bathilda (English princess)

Bathori, Elizabeth (Polish princess)

Bathory, Sigismund (prince of Transylvania)

Batman (Bob Kane & Bill Finger; Adam West, Michael Keaton, Christian Bale)

Batrachomyomachia “(Gk. ‘battle of the frogs and mice’), mock-epic, in hexameter verse, of unknown authorship, sometimes ascribed to Homer.”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

Batten, Jean (New Zealand aviator)

Baudelaire, Charles Pierre (French poet)

Bauer, Caroline (German actress)

Bauer, Harold (English pianist)

Bauhaus (German: architecture house)

Baum, Lyman Frank (American writer)

Baumbach, Rudolf (German poet)

Baxter, Andrew (Scottish metaphysician)

Bayle, Pierre (French writer & philosopher)

Bayliss, Sir William Maddock (English physiologist)

To “be” is to remain the same (abbr. beryllium [Be]).  Bees on the other hand make honey!

Beach, Alfred Ely (American inventor)

BC (abbr. British Columbia or before Christ [see AC])

Bean (Irish: woman, Irishwoman)

Bean, Mumford (and his Itawambians, American country fiddle player)

Beattie, James (Scottish poet)

Beau (“the leader of male fashion in XVIII. and early XIX. cent’s, the period of wig, patch, powder, enameled snuff-box, satin knee-breeches, etc., which may be studied in Austin Dobson’s Ballad of B. Brocade.  Bath. Tunbridge Wells, Harrogate, Scarborough, and other resorts to which the rank and fashion flocked to take the waters, offered highly organized social enjoyments culminating in the Assembly and presided over by the b.; the b. owed his position largely to his wit, but chiefly to his elegance.

“One of the earliest was Richard Nash (fl. 1700), who held sway over Bath as master of ceremonies, (1704-20); George Bryan Brummell (1778-1840), who was raised from lowly rank by the Prince of Wales and flourished until 1816, was accepted by royalties as their superior; the last of the b.’s was the Frenchman, Alfred, Count d’Orsay (1798-1852), who lived a good deal in England, where he initiated modern dress, and was best known to foreigners through the operas of Mozart and Rossini respectively; inimitable Memoires.”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

Beaumont; Francis & Sir John (English writers)

You meaner beauties of the night,
That poorly satisfy our eyes,
More by your number, than your light;
You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon shall rise?

-Sir Henry Wotton

Beatus ille, qui procul negotiis,

Utprisca gens mortalium

Patema rura bubus exercet suis,

Solutus omni faenore.

-Horace

Beavoir, Roger de (Eugene Auguste Roger de Bully, French novelist)

Beaver (Castor fiber & castor canadensis)

Beaverbacks: Canadian version of American Greenbacks, supporters of the Land, Labour and Currency Reform Party (platform: “(1) an end to the bank system and inflation (2) nationalization of railways and telegraphs (3) an armed militia instead of a standing army (4) equality under the law (5) honest elections (6) full employment at living wages (7) no big monopolies of wealth or land”  –N. Brian Davis, The Poetry of the Canadian People

Bechet, Sidney (American jazz clarinet & soprano saxophonist)

Beck, Jacob Sigismund (German philosopher)

Becker, Heinrich (German actor)

Beckett, Samuel (Irish writer)

Becquerel; Antoine Cesar, Alexandre Edmond & Anotine Henri (French physicists)

Beecher; Henry Ward & Lyman (American clergymen & reformers)

Beedaubun (Ojibway: coming down)

Beethoven, Ludwig van (German composer)

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (English poet)

Beginning

From that they found most lovely, most abhorred,
my parents made me: I was born like sound
stroked from the fiddle to become the ward
of tunes played on the bear-trap and the hound.

Not one, but seven entrances they gave
each to the other, and he laid her down
they way the sun comes out.  Oh, they were brave,
and then like looters in a burning town.

Their mouths left bruises, starting with the kiss
and ending with the proverb, where they stayed;
Never in making was there brighter bliss,
followed by darker shame.  Thus I was made.

-Alden Nowlan

“All this would be better than behaving well by obeying the law as enforced by police, working productively for the contrived reinforcers called money, and studying to get marks and grades.”

-B. F. Skinner

Behan, Brendan (Irish writer & rebel)

Behring, Emil Von (German bacteriologist)

Behn, Aphra (English novelist)

Beiderbeckel “Bix” (American jazz cornetist)

Beirim greim (Irish: bite v.)

Beith, John Hay (Ian, English soldier & writer)

Bejart, Armande Claire Elizabeth (French actress)

Bekhterev, Vladimir Mikailovich (Russian neuropathologist)

Bel (“signifying ‘lord’ or ‘master’; principal Babylonian deity, whose temple was in the sacred city of Nippur; cf. Baal.  Among his various titles are “king of the lands,” “king of heaven and earth” and “father of the gods.”  His temple at Nippur was called E-Kur, or “mountain house.”  Around the chief temple, which was constantly being decorated and added to, were built temples and altars to other gods, until a whole section in the city became a religious precinct, with the general name of E-Kur.  When Babylon succeeded Nippur in importance, the titles of the Nippur deity were given to Marduk, reigning deity of Babylon.”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

Bela III & IV (kings of Hungary)

Bell, Alexander Graham (Scottish inventor of the telephone [1876])

Bell; Sir Charles & John (Scottish surgeons & anatomists)

Bell, Ed (American blues musician)

Bellamy, George Anne (English actress)

Bellerophon (son of Poseidon, slayer of Chimaera)

Bellini; Gentile, Giovanni & Jacopo (Venetian painters)

Bellman, Karl Mikael (Swedish poet)

Bellona (Roman goddess of war)

Bellow, Saul (Canadian writer)

Ben “(1) In Scot two-roomed cottage (‘a but and a ben’) the kitchen, or outer room, is known as the but, the inner chamber, opening from the kitchen, the ben.  (2) Gaelic for mountain, (e.g.) Ben Nevis (3) Arab and Hebr. for s. of, (e.g.) Rabbi ben Ezra, Benjamin.”  -World’s Popular Encylopedia

Benavente y Martinez, Jacinto (Spanish playwright)

Bendis (moon goddess of Thrace)

Bendl, Karel (Bohemian composer)

Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.  -John 8:23

Benet; Stephen Vincent & William Rose (American writers)

Benigni, Roberto (Italian actor)

Ben Mhenni, Lina (لينا بن مهني, Tunisian activist)

Bennett; James Gordon & jr. (American journalists)

Benny, Jack (Benjamin Kubelsky, American comedian)

Benoit, Peter Leonard Leopold (Flemish composer)

Benson; Arthur, Edward, jr. & Robert (American writers)

Beowolf: 8th century English poem.

Berengar (king of Italy)

Bergman, Ernst Ingmar (Swedish director)

Bergman, Ingrid (Swedish actress)

Bering, Vitus (Danish explorer)

Berkeley, George (Irish philosopher & clergyman)

Berlin, Irving (Israel Baline, Russian songwriter)

Berlioz, Hector (French composer)

Bern, Dan (American folk musician)

Bernard; Jean-Jacques & Tristan (French dramatists)

Bernays; Jacobe & Michael (German writers)

Bernhardt, Sarah (Henriette Rosine, French actress)

Bernoulli; Daniel, Jakob & Johann (Swiss mathematicians)

Bernstein, Leonard (American conductor & composer)

Berry, Chuck (Charles Edward Anderson, American rock musician)

Berzerk (Scandinavian hero)

Berton, Pierre Francis (Canadian writer)

Berzelius, Jons Jakob, Baron (Swedish chemist)

Besant, Annie (Wood, English theosophist)

Best, Charles Herbert (Canadian physisian, co-discoverer of insulin)

Best, James (American actor)

Bethlen, Gabriel (prince of Transylvania, elected king of Hungary)

Bethune, Mary McLeod (American educator)

Bethune, Norman (Canadian physician)

Betterton, Thomas (English actor)

Bevan, Aneurin (Nye, British politician)

Bharthihari (Indian poet)

Bhavabhuti (Indian dramatist)

Bhiksu (Sanskrit: monk)

Bia (Greek goddess of violence)

Biafra, Jello (American rock singer, The Dead Kennedys)

Biko, Steve (Bantu Stephen Biko, South African martyr)

Bilbster: “A pimple so hideous and enormous that you have to cover it with sticking plaster and pretend you’ve cut yourself shaving.”  -The Book of Liff

Bilderdijk, Willem (Dutch poet)

Bildungsroman (German: education novel)

“As a general thing, if you want to get at the truth of a particular arguement, hear both sides and believe neither.”  -Josh Billings

Bin Ladan, Osama (Saudi ex-CIA operative)

Birds: evolved dinosaurs (British slang: women)

Birds and the Bees (sex, both pollinate plants)

Bishop, William Avery (Canadian airman)

Bizet, Georges (Alexandre Cesa Leopold, French composer)

Bjork (Gudmundsdottir, Icelandic musician & singer)

Blaberos (Greek: harmful)

Blaec (Anglo Saxon: black)

Blac (Anglo Saxon: white)

Black Death (13th & 17th century epidemics in Europe of bubonic plague)

Black, Frank (American rock musician, Pixies)

Black, Joseph (Scottish chemist & physician)

Black Hawk (Makataimeshekiakiak, chief of Sauk & Fox tribes)

Black Triangle (Ottawa band)

Black Watch (“Highland regiment, wearing dark tartan; established 1688, to repress Jacobitism, comprises old 42nd and 73rd Regiments.”  -World Popular Encyclopedia

Blackie, John Stuart (Scottish scholar & poet)

BLACK LIVES MATTER (BLM, A civil rights motto & movement in retaliation for the murder of Black people, mostly by police)

Blacklock, Thomas (Scottish poet)

Black Panther Party (BPP, Marxist militant [open carry] “copwatchers” and Black community organizers)

Blackwell, Elizabeth (1st female American physician)

Blackwell, Francis (Scrapper, American blues musician)

Blackwell, Lucy Stone (American suffrage activist)

Bladud (British king)

Blair, Robert (Scottish poet & preacher)

Blake, Arthur (Blind, American blues musician)

Blake, Edward (Irish prime minister of Ontario)

Blake, William (English poet)

Blamire, Susanna (English poet)

Blanc, Mel (American actor)

Bland; Edith & Hubert (English writers)

Blanqui, Louis Auguste (French revolutionary against Napoleon III)

Blasco, Ibenez Vicente (Spanish novelist)

Blessington, Marguerite Countess of (Irish writer)

Blevin; Ed & Frank (Frank Blevins and his Tar Heel Rattlers, American country musicians)

Bliadhna nan Caorach (Scottish: The Year of the Sheep)

Bligh, William (English poet)

Blind, Mathilde (English poet)

Block (consensus hand signal, major moral or practical problems with ideas being expressed, the individual making this gesture would leave the group if those ideas were enacted; forearms crossed like an “x”)

Blodeuwedd (Welsh: owl, woman turned to an owl for plotting to kill her husband for another lover)

Blondin, Charles (Jean Francois Gravelet, French acrobat & tightrope walker)

Bloody Sunday (Russian & Irish massacres)

Blue, Ben (Canadian actor)

Blunt; Wilfred Scawen & Lady Anne (English writers)

Blythe, James (Jimmy, American jazz piano player)

BNA (abbr. British North America)

Boabdil, Abu Abdallah (king of Granada, last of Moorish kings)

Boadicea (British queen)

Bocage, Manoel Marie Barbosa du (Portugese poet)

Boccaccio, Giovanni (Italian author)

Boccage, Marie Anne Fiquet du (French poet)

Bocchus (king of Mauretania [Morocco])

Bodhisattva: being of wisdom (Mahayana Buddhist dedicated to the salvation of mankind)

Bodmin: “The irrational and inevitable discrepancy between the amount pooled and the amount needed when a large group of people try to pay a bill together after a meal.”  -The Book of Liff

Boehme, Jakob (German philosopher)

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Roman philosopher)

Bogarde, Dirk (Derek Niven van den Bogaerde, British actor)

Bogart, Humphrey DeForrest (American actor)

Boggs, “Dock” (American country banjo player & singer)

Bohr; Aage Niels & Niels Henrik David (Danish physicists)

Boleslaw I, II & III (king of Poland)

Bolivar, Simon (the Liberator, Venezuelan revolutionary)

Bolton; Charles & Sarah (American writers)

Boltzmann, Ludwig (Austrian physicist)

Bonheur, Rosa (French artist)

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (German philosopher)

Bonner, Geraldine (American writer)

Bonney, William H. (Billy the Kid, American outlaw, killed 21 by age 21)

Bonaparte, Napoleon (French general turned self-styled emperor)

B is also for Book (Greek biblos, bible) & Bat.

Boole, George (British mathematician & logician)

Booth; Ballington, Evangeline, Maud, William & jr. (English Salvation Army founders)

Booth, Charles (British social scientist)

Booth; Edwin Thomas, John Wilkes & Junius Brutus (American actors)

Borden, Gail (American inventor of condensed foods)

Borden, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Laird (prime minister of Canada)

Bordet, Jules (Belgian serologist & immunologist)

Boreas (the north wind, son of Atreaus & Eos)

Borges, Jorge Luis (Argentinian writer)

Boris III (czar of Bulgaria)

Boris, Fedorovich Godunov (czar of Russia)

Borlaug, Norman Ernest (American agronomist)

Born, Max (British theoretical physicist)

Borromini, Francesco (Castelli, Baroque architect)

Bosch, Hieronymus (Flemish painter)

Bose, Sir Jagadis Chandra (Indian physicist)

“On the evening of Thursday 16 December 1773, either 60 or 200 men dressed as native Americans — there are conflicting accounts as the numbers — came out of the Green Dragon Tavern near the port of Boston, where the St Andrews Freemasons’ lodge met once a month on a Thursday.  The ‘Indians’ boarded three British ships which were anchored at Griffins Wharf in Boston harbour.  They broke open 340 chests containing teas and threw the tea into the water.  The value of the tea was about £10, 000 (£300,000 in terms of 1999 prices).  The ‘Indians’ then returned to the Green Dragon Tavern, and were never seen again.”  -Jasper Ridley, The Freemasons

Boswell, James (Scottish author)

Bothwell, James Hepburn 4th Earl of (Lord High Admiral of Scotland, married Mary Queen of Scots)

Botticelli, Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (Sandro, Italian artist)

Boucher, Francois (French painter)

Boucicault, Dion (Irish dramatist & actor)

Boudicca (queen of the Iceni)

Les bourgeois, ce sont les autres.  -Jules Renard

Bowen, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole (Irish writer)

Bowie, David (David Robert Jones, British rock musician)

Bova; Phillip & jr. (Ottawa musicians & engineers)

Boy Scouts (Lieut.-Gen Sir Robert S. S. Baden-Powell, Ernest Seton-Thompson’s ‘Woodcraft Indians’ & Dan Beard’s ‘The Sons of Daniel Boone.’)

Boycott, Captain (evicted Irish tenant, hence the verb)  see Land League.

Boyle, Robert (the father of chemistry, Irish physicist & chemist)

Boyd, Edwin Alonzo (Canadian bank robber)

Bp (abbr. bishop, boiling point, blood pressure or global oil company)

Brackage, Stan (American filmmaker, Dog Star Man)

Bradbury, Ray Douglas (American writer)

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (English novelist)

Bradlaugh, Charles (British politician)

Bradshaw, Henry (English monk & poet)

Bragg; Sir William Henry & Sir William Lawrence (British physicists)

Bragg, Billy (English folk singer)

Bragi (Norse god of poetry, son of Wodin & Gunlod)

Braham, John (Abraham, English vocalist)

Brahe, Tycho (Danish astronomer)

Brahma (Hindu: the Creator, Sanskrit brahman: prayer)

Brahms, Johannes (German composer)

Braille, Louis (French inventor)

Bramante, Donato (Italian architect)

Brando, Marlon (American actor)

Brannum, Hugh (Lumpy, Mr. Green Jeans, American jazz musician)

Braque, Georges (French cubist painter)

Brae (Scottish: mountain)

Breau, Edgar (Canadian rock musician, Simply Saucer)

Brecht, Bertolt (German writer)

Bremer, Fredrika (Swedish novelist)

Saint Brendan (Irish abbot)

Brennus (“name of two Celtic chieftans of Gaul, the first of whom burned Rome, 390 B.C.; the second invaded Greece, 280 B.C..”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia)

Breton, Andre (French surrealist poet)

Breuer, Josef (Austrian physician & psychologist)

Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham (American author)

Brewster, Sir David (Scottish scientist)

Breytenbach, Breyton (South African poet)

Brian (chief king of Ireland)

Briareus (Aegaeon, Greek god of 300 arms & 50 heads)

Saint Bridget (patron of Sweden)

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

-William Shakespeare

Brigit (Spanish sea goddess)

Brittain, Donald (Canadian filmmaker)

Broglie, Louis Victor 7th Duc de (French physicist)

Bronte; Emily, Anne & Charlotte (British poets)

Brooks, Albert (Einstein, American comedian)

Brooks, James L. (American director & producer)

Brooks, Mel (American comedian)

Broonzy, William Lee Conley (Big Bill, American blues musician)

Broadbent, Ed (Canadian leader of the NDP)

Bouazizi, Mohamed  (Tunisian street vendor)

Brouwer, Adrian (Dutch painter)

Brown, Chester (Canadian comics artist & writer, Yummy Fur)

Brown; Ford Madox & Oliver Madox (English artists)

Brown, James (The Godfather of Soul, The Hardest Working Man in Show Business, Soul Brother Number One, &c.)

Brown, John (American abolitionist)

Brown, John (Scottish escort) “the Rev. Norman MacLeod, the Queen’s Chaplain, confessed on his death bed to conducting the marriage ceremony…” (-Lewis Harcourt, The Globe and Mail)

Brown, Robert (British botanist)

Brown, Steve (American jazz double bass player)

Brown, Thomas (Scottish philosopher)

Brown, Thomas Edward (Manx poet)

Browne, Charles Farrar (Artemis Ward, American comedian)

Browne, Hablot Knight (Phiz, British illustrator)

Browne, Isaac Hawkins (English poet)

Browning; Elizabeth Barrett & Robert (English poets) I feel for the common chord again…  The C Major of this life. 

Brubeck, David Warren (American pianist & composer)

Bruce, Lenny (Leonard Alfred Schneider, American comedian)

Bruce, Michael (Scottish poet)

Bruegel; Jan, Peiter & jr. (Flemish painters)

Bruma (Latin: winter solstice)

Brummel, Elizabeth Pearl Salisbury (Canadian poet)

Brummell, George Bryan (Beau, Welsh fop)  I always like to have the morning well-aired before I get up.

Brunelleschi, Filippo (Italian architect)

Dort, wo man Bucher
Verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am
Ende Menschen.  -Heinrich Heine

Buddhism (Four Noble Truths: “1) that all life is inevitably sorrowful; 2) that sorrow is due to craving; 3) that it can only be stopped by the stopping of craving; and 4) that this can only be done by a course of carefully disciplined and moral conduct, culminating in the life of concentration and medication led by the Buddhist monk.”

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de (French biologist)  The style is the man.

Bujold, Genevieve (Canadian actress)

Bukowski, Charles (American drunk & poet)

Bullock, Shan (Irish novelist)

Bunch, William (Peetie Wheatstraw, American blues musician)

Bunsen, Robert Wihelm Von (German chemist)

Bunyan, John (English religious leader)

Buonamici, Major Vince (Canadian military officer & primary source of the Somalia inquiry)

Burbage; James & Richard (English actors)

Burger, Gottfried August (German poet)

Burgess, Anthony (British writer)

Burke, Martha Jane (Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman)

Burnett, Carol (American comedian)

Burnett, Dick (Burnett & Rutherford, American country guitar, banjo player & singer)

Burnett, Frances Eliza Hodgson (English novelist)

Burney, Fanny (Madame D’Arblay, English novelist)

Burnham, Clara Louise (American author)

Burns, George (American comedian)

Burns, John (British politician)

Burns, Robert (Scottish poet)

Lines Written on a Bank-note

Wae worth thy power, thou cursed leaf!

Fell source o a’ my woe and grief,

For lack of thee I’ve lost my lass,

For lack of them I scrimp my glass!

I see the children of affliction Unaided,

through they curs’d restriction

I’ve seen the oppressor’s cruel smile

Amid his hapless victim’s spoil;

And for thy potence vainly wish’d,

To crush the villain in the dust.

For lack of thee, I leave this much-lov’d shore,

Never, perhaps, to greet old Scotland more.

Burpee; David & Washington Atlee (American horticulturalists)

Burr, Raymond (Canadian actor)

Burritt, Elihu (American humanitarian)

Burroughs, Edgar Rice (American writer)

Burroughs; William S. & jr. (American junkies & writers)

Burton, Richard (Jenkins, Welsh actor)

Burton, Robert (Democritus Junior, English writer)

Burton, Tim (American director)

Bush, George & jr. (American presidents)

Bushido (Japanese: way of the warrior)

Bushnell, David (father of the submarine, American inventor)

Busiris (Egyptian king, son of Poseidon & Lyssianassa)

Busoni, Gerruccio Benvenuto (Italian composer, conductor & pianist)

Bummeln (German: pub crawl)

Buonamici, Maj. Vince (Canadian Somalia Inquiry whistleblower)

Buonarroti, Michelangelo (Italian sculptor)

Butler, Nicholas Murray (American educator)

Butler, Samuel (English poet)

Butler, Samuel (English novelist)

Byalik, Chaim Nachman (Hebrew poet)

Bycatch: over 300 000 marine mammals that die accidentally every year in fisherman’s nets.

Byng, George Viscount Torrington & John (English admirals)

Byrd, William (English composer)

Byrne, David (American musician & artist, Talking Heads)

Byron, George Gordon, IV Baron (British poet)

Byron, Hon. John (English vice-admiral, Governor of Newfoundland, grandfather of George)

_._.

(se) from the Phoenician gimel; Scottish call: the hazel tree; Etruscan, Roman numeral for 100; 3rd; average grade; capacity; cape; carat; centigrade; century; chapter; chief; circa; city; conservative; mathematics: constant; celsius; chemistry: carbon; coulomb; physics: velocity of light (2.997 925x108ms-1) or charge conjugation.

© (abbr. copyright)

Ca (abbr. calcium)

Caballero, Fernan (Cecillia Francisca Larrea, Spanish novelist)

Saint Charles Xavier Cabrini (Maria Francesca, Mother Cabrini; Italian founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart)

Cadmus (king of Illyria, founder of Thebes, brother of Europa, grandfather of Dionysus–who saved Zeus & Olympus from Typhon)

Cada (Latin: fall)

Cadogan: lidless teapot (after William Cadagan, 1st Earl of Cadogan [1675-1726]).

Caecus (Latin: blind)

Caed (Latin: cut)

Caedmon (1st English poet)

Ceard (Scottish: artist or craftsman, from Old Irish cerd: art or artist)

Caer y troiau (Welsh: the city of turnings)

Caesar, Gaius Julius (Roman general & dictator)

Caffeine (Theine, white crystalline purine)

Cage, John (American composer)

Cagliostro, Alessandro Conte di (Giuseppe Balsamo, Italian alchemist & magician)

Cagney, James (American actor)

Caird; Edward & John (Scottish philosophers)

Cajun (American Acadian)

Cal (abbr. calorie, calender or caliber)

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro (Spanish dramatist)

Caldwell, Erskine Preston (American author)

Cale, John (American musician & producer, The Velvet Underground)

Caledonia (Roman: Scotland)

Caligula, Caius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Roman emperor)

Caligynephobia: fear of beautiful women.

Calimachus (Greek poet & scholar)

Callas, Maria (Anna Kalogeropoulos, American coloratura soprano)

Calliope (Greek muse of epics)

Calvin, John (French founder of Presbyterianism)

Calypso (Greek nymph of the island Ogygia, daughter of Atlas, she who conceals things)

Camargo, Marie Anne (French ballet dancer)

Cambria (Latin: Wales)

Cambridge, Richard Owen (English poet)

Cameron, James (Canadian director)

Cameron, John Allan (the godfather of Celtic music in Canada)

Cameron, Julia Margaret (British photographer)

Cameron, Rod (Roderick Cox, Canadian actor)

Cameron of Lochiel, Sir Ewen (Highland chieftain, Cameron Clan)

“The history of the regiment goes back to 1861, when a number of militia companies in the Ottawa area were organized into a regiment that soon became the 43rd Carleton Battalion of Infantry, headquartered in Bells Corners.  Under various different names and organizational structures, they fought through every war in which Canada was involved in its first century of statehood.  In 1867, the battalion, which at that time was known as the Carleton Blazers, served as the guard of honour for the opening of Canada’s first parliamentary session.

“In 1910, the Duke of Cornwall, who later became King George V, was sufficiently impressed by his inspection of the 43rd Battalion that he asked to become its colonel-in-chief.  The battalion was renamed the 43rd Regiment, Duke of Cornwall’s Own Rifles.

“Members of the Duke of Cornwall’s Own Rifles served in the First World War under various different regiments, including the 2nd Battalion.  Shortly after the war, the regiment was reorganized into The Ottawa Highlanders, and was turned into a Highland regiment, meaning its troops marched on parade in a kilted uniform.

“In the 1920s, and alliance with the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of the British army led to the name the regiment bears to this day, the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa.

“In the Second World War, the Camerons were stationed in Iceland until 1941, when the unit proceeded to Britain.  They landed in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the only Ottawa unit to hit the beaches in France on that historic day.  That summer, the regiment fought at Carpiquet, Buron, Authie and Caen.  The regiment was preparing for an attack on Aurich and Emden when Germany surrendered on May 5, 1945.”  -The Ottawa Citizen

“The Cameronians, I have discovered, are or were an uncompromising remnant of the Covenanters–those Scots who in the seventeenth century bound themselves, with God, to resist prayer books, bishops, any taint of popery or interference by the King.  Their name comes from Richard Cameron, an outlawed, or ‘field,’ preacher, soon cut down.  The Cameronians–for a long time they have preferred to be called the Reformed Presbyterians–went into battle singing the seventy-fourth and the seventy-eigth Psalms.  They hacked the haught Bishop of St. Andrews to death on the highway and rode their horses over his body.  One of their ministers, in a mood of firm rejoicing at his own hanging, excommunicated all the other preachers in the world.”  -Alice Munro

Camerado, this is no book,
Who touches this touches a man,
(Is it night? Are we here together alone?)

-Walt Whitman

The Whitmanian word Camerado presents an interesting challenge to Vasseur’s vaguely homophobic sensibilities, and perhaps represents something of a cop-out in his attempts to maneuver around openly gay love. Camerado is a defunct term borrowed from Renaissance Spanish, and is the root of the English comrade, Whitman’s basic denotation. But Vasseur’s frequent equivalent, the contemporary Spanish word camarada, is unusual insofar as it is functionally neutral, but suggests a feminine subject because of its female-gendered ending, “-a” (camarada is in fact grammatically a collective feminine.) A little-used term, camarada is derived from the Spanish cámara, or chamber, and a camarada was originally a group sharing a chamber, or sharing a bed. Hence it first meant bedfellow, then more generally a companion or friend.  –whitmanarchive.org

Campbell, Bruce (American actor)

Campbell; Donald & Sir Malcolm (British motor engineers, set world speed records, Bluebird)

Campbell, Ignatius Royston Dunnachie (South African poet, satirist and translator)

Campbell, Kim (1st female prime minister of Canada)

Campbell, Larry (Canadian mountie, coroner & mayor of Vancouver)

Campbell, Mrs. Patrick (Beatrice Stella Tanner, British actress)

Campbell, Thomas (Scottish poet)

Campbell, William Wilfred (Canadian poet)

Campi, Giulio (Italian artist)

Campion, Thomas (English composer, poet & physician)

Camus, Albert (French writer)

Canada (Ojiway kanada: village or gathering place) “A generous social-welfare system, lax immigration laws, infrequent prosecutions, light sentencing, and long borders and coastlines offer many points and methods of entry that facilitate movement to the United States.”  -U.S. Library of Congress

Canada Day (July 1st, formerly Dominion Day)

Canaletto, Antonio (Giovanni Antonio Canale, Venetian painter)

Cannizzaro, Stanislao (Italian chemist)

Cannon, Annie Jump (American astronomer)

Cannon’s Jug Stompers (American blues band)

Canute (the Great, Danish king of England, Denmark & Norway)

Capek, Kerel (Czech writer)

Capitalism: “A concept which has moved beyond the stage of sensible discussion.”  -John Ralston Saul

Capoeira (Brazilian martial art)

Capone, Alphonse (Scarface, Italian gangster)

Capote, Truman (American writer)

Capp, Al (Alfred Gerald Caplin, American cartoonist, Li’l Abner)

Capra, Frank (American director)

Caput mortum (Latin: dead head)

Carcalla, Marcus Aurelius Antonius (Roman emperor)

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Amerighida (Italian artist)

Carbon dioxide (CO2, acid gas)

Carbon monoxide (CO, poisonous gas ocuring in car exaust, burning creates carbon dioxide)

Carcinogen (cancer producer, carcinoma)

“It is hard to continually unlearn and challenge yourself, honestly examine your world views, change and do better.  You make mistakes, you lose friends and you even have to challenge family members.  It makes you uncomfortable, it makes other folks uncomfortable and it may be met with resistance.  Family and people you thought were friends will label you a troublemaker.  They will say things like “you think you’re better than us” and sooner or later you will either drift apart or be forced to make the decision to divorce yourself from these toxic relationships.  You will feel guilty at first.  I did but I also recognized how toxic and harmful those relationships were to my authentic self.  I could not be the person I was meant to be if I remained attached to people who were detrimental to my mental health and well-being.”  -Colleen Cardinal, Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh

Cardigan: collarless sweater that opens in front (after James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan [1864])

Cardin, Pierre (French fashion designer)

Carducci, Giosue (Italian poet)

Carew, Thomas (English poet)

Carinus, Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor)

Carlin, George (American comedian)

Carloman (king of Franks)

Carloman (king of France)

Carlos (king of Portugal)

Carlyle, Thomas (Scottish writer & philosopher)

Carmen, Bliss (William, Canadian poet)

Carmichael, Hoagland Howard (Hoagie, American songwriter, Stardust)

Carnegie, Andrew (Scottish philanthropist; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Hero Fund, Institute for Technology & Institution of Washington)

Carnot, Nicolas Leonard Sadi (French physicist, engineer & soldier, founder of the science of thermodynamics, son of Lazare)

Carol II (king of Romania)

Carpaccio, Vittore (Scarrpazza, Venetian painter)

Carpenter, Mary (English social reformer)

Carpentier, Georges (French boxer)

Carr, Emily (Canadian painter)  For push of nose, for perseverance, there is nothing to beat a cat.

Carr, Leroy (American blues musician)

Carr, Lucien (American journalist)

Carradine; John, David, Keith & Robert (American actors)

Carravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi, Italian painter)

Carreno, Teresa (Venezuelan pianist)

Carrey, Jim (Canadian actor, The Grinch)

Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English writer)

cars=death  (see above, Greenhouse Effect & Lead Poisoning)

Carson, Jack (John Elmer, Canadian actor)

Carson, John (Fiddlin’ … & his Virginia Reelers, American country fiddle player)

Carson, Johnny (American comedian, The Tonight Show)

Carson, Rachel Louise (American marine & genetic biologist)

Carter, Benny Lester (the King, American jazz musician)

Carter, Elizabeth (English poet)

Carter; Andrew, George & Jimmie (Carter Brothers & Son, American country musicians)

Carter, Howard (British archeologist)

Carter, James Earl jr.  (American president)

Carter, Leslie (Louis, American actress)

Carter; Mother Maybelle Addington (Queen of Country Music), Sara Dougherty, Alvin Pleasant, Anita, Helen & June (American country musicians)

Carthage (Phoenician colony in North Africa, e.146 AC)

Cartier, Sir George-Etienne (Canadian lawyer & prime minister of the Province of Canada)  O Canada, mon pays, mes amours.

Cartier, Jacques (French navigator)

Cartier-Bresson, Henri (French photographer)

Carus, Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor)

Caruso, Enrico (Italian tenor)

Cary, Alice (American poet)

Cary, Annie Louis (American singer)

Cary, Phoebe (American writer)

Casal, Pablo (Spanish cellist, conductor & composer)

Cash, Johnny (American country musician)

Casimir III & IV (kings of Poland)

Cassandra (daughter of Priam, blessed with prophecy and cursed that no one would believe her)

Cassatt, Mary (American painter)

Cassivellaunus (king of the Catuvellauni)

Cassirer, Erst (German philosopher)

Castagno, Andrea Del (Italian painter)

“His mouth became the brahman; his two arms were made into the rajanya; his two thighs the vaishyas; from his two feet the shudra was born.  The moon was born from the mind, from the eye the sun was born; from the mouth Indra and Agni, from the breath (prana) the wind (vayu) was born.  From the navel was the atmosphere created, from the head the heaven issued forth; from the two feet was born the earth and the quarters (the cardinal directions) from the car.  Thus did they fashion the worlds.  Seven were the enclosing sticks in this sacrifice, thrice seven were the fire-sticks made, when the gods, performing sacrifice, bound down Purusha, the sacrificial victim.  With this sacrificial oblation did the gods offer sacrifice.  These were the first norms (dharma) of sacrifice.  These greatnesses reached to the sky wherein live the ancient Sadhyas and gods.”  –Rig Veda, 10.90

Castle, Vernon (Blythe, English aviator & actor)

Castor & Pollux (twin sons of Leda)

Castro, Fidel (Ruz, prime minister of Cuba)

“There are people who reshape the world by force of argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing, and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience.  -Allen & Ivy Dodd

C is for Cat & Calliope (Greek muse of epic poetry), Chaos, Cocaine (Erythroxylin coca, C17H21O4N; white crystalline alkaloid, chewed by the Incans) & Cunt.

Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

Cather, Willa Sibert (American author)

Catherine I & II (empress of Russia)

Catherine de Medici (queen of France)

Catholic Apostolic Church (founded in England, 1832 by Rev. E. Irving)

Cats, Jacob (Dutch poet)

Catullus, Gaius Valerius (Roman poet)

Cavalcanti, Guido (Florentine poet)

Cavendish, Henry (English physicist & chemist)

Caxton, William (1st English printer & publisher, Myrrour of the Worlde)

Caylus, Marie Marguerite Marquise de (French writer)

CBGB-OMFUG (Country, Bluegrass, Blues, and Other Music for Uplifting Gourmandizers; e. Bowery bar)

Ceann-cinnidh (Scottish: chief or founder of the clan)

Ceawlin (king of West Saxons)

Cecco, D’Ascoli (Italian encyclopedist & poet)

Cecrops (king of Athens)

Cedric (king of West Saxons)

Cells: life, and the building blocks thereof; protoplasm filled membranes, which usually contain a nucleus & cytoplasm.

Celtic (Brythonic [Cornish, Welsh, Breton] & Goidelic [Gaelic, Manx])

Cephus (king of Ethiopia)

Cerberus (Greek hound of hell with many heads)

Cernunnos (the Horned Sacred One, Lord of Animals)

Cervantes, Saavedra Miguel de (Spanish writer)

Cetewayo (Zulu king)

Cezanne, Paul (French painter)

CFC (abbr. chlorofluorocarbon, gases that put holes in the ozone layer; from refridgerators & air-conditioners)

Chadwick, Sir James (British physicist)

Chagall, Marc (Russian painter)

Chaliapin, Feodor Ivanvich (Russian opera singer)

Chalmers, Alexander (Scottish writer)

Chambers, Ephraim (English encyclopedist)

Chamberlain, James (Canadian designer, Avro Arrow, Gemini 3)

Champlain, Samuel de (French explorer)

Chandbagupta Maurya, Sandrocottus (Indian king)

Chandler, Raymond (American writer)

Chanel, Gabrielle (Coco, French fashion designer)

Chaney; Lon & jr. (American actors)

Ch’ang (Chinese: always)

Chang, Wah Ming (American artist, Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, Sparticus, The Time Machine, The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, The King and I, Cleopatra & The Outer Limits)

Chappelle, Dave (American comedian)

Chaplin, Charles Spencer (English actor)

And let a scholar all Earth’s volumes carry,
He will be but a walking dictionary.  -George Chapman

Chapman, John (Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer)

Charibert (Frankish king)

Charlemagne (king of Franks, emperor of the West)

Charles I & II (kings of Great Britain & Ireland)

Charles I, II & III (Holy Roman emperors & kings of the West Franks)

Charles IV (Holy Roman emperor & king of Bohemia)

Charles V (Charles Quint, Holy Roman emperor & king of Spain)

Charles VI (Holy Roman emperor)

Charles VII (Holy Roman emperor & elector of Bavaria)

Charles I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX & X (kings of France)

Charles I, II, III & IV (kings of Spain)

Charles IX, X, XI & XII (kings of Sweden)

Charles XIII, XIV & XV (kings of Sweden & Norway)

Charles II & III (kings of Naverre)

Charles I & II (kings of Naples & Sicily)

Charles (emperor of Austria & king of Hungary [Charles IV])

Charles (Carlos, king of Rumania, prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen)

Charles Albert (king of Sardinia)

Charles, Ray (American singer & pianist)

Charon (Greek ferryman of the river Styx, 1 obol is his price)

Cha till mi tuille (Scottish: we shall return no more)

Chatman, Armenter (Bo Carter, American blues musician)

Chatterton, Thomas (English poet)

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye,–
So priketh hem Nature in hir corages,–
Thannne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunturbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.

-Geoffrey Chaucer

Chauvinism: “term used in Napoleon’s days for hero-worship or the emperor; derived from Nicholas Chauvin; exaggerated patriotism, jingoism”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

Chaykin, Maury (Canadian actor)

Cheatham, Doc (American jazz musician)

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (Russian writer)

Cheney, Dick (American vice-president, secretary of defense & executive of the Haliburton enery [oil] company) “The vice-president also issued his own personal National Intelligence Estimate of Hussein: “There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction (and) there is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us.”  Ten days earlier, the president himself had said only that Hussein “desires” these weapons.  Neither Bush nor the CIA had made any assertion comparable to Cheney’s.”  -Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack

Cheng (Chinese: ruler; correct; rectifying; standard; to collect; invite; to control; leader; government)

Ch’eng (Chinese: true)

Chenier, Andre Marie de (French poet)

Cheops (Khufu, king of Egypt)

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (British writer)

Chevalier, Maurice (French singer & actor)

Chi (Chinese: subtle, incipient activating force)  “Graham expressed the sense of the term most correctly in the phrases “inward spring of movement” and “incipient movement not yet visible outside.”  Both Bodde’s “motive force” and Carsun Chang’s “state of subtlety” are correct but incomplete.”  -Wing-tsit Chan

Ch’ien (Chinese: heaven)

Childers; Erskin Hamilton & Robert Erskin (Irish nationalists)

Chinese River Dolphin (1 of the WMES)

Ching (Chinese: seriousness; reverence; material force; essence; sphere; “merely means the mind being its own master.”  -Chu Hsi)

Chirico, Giorgio de (Greek painter)

Chiron (planet discovered by Charles Kowal in 1977, revolves around the sun between saturn & uranus)

Chlorine (1st poisonous gas used in warfare by Germany, Ypres, 1915; used in bleaching powder, disinfectants & germicide for water)

Chloroform (CHCl3, acetone, acetaldehyde or ethanol with bleaching powder or chlorine on methane; anaesthetic & solvent, sniffed by Queen Victoria for childs 7 & 8)

Chlorophyll (pigment in plants responsible for building carbohydrates from carbon dioxide & photosynthesis)

Chomsky, Noam (American writer & professor of linguistics)

Chopin, Frederic Francois (Polish composer)

Chordates (Animals with spinal chords or vertebrates [with backbones])

Chosroes I & II (kings of Persia)

Chou (Chinese: “What has gone by in the past and what is to come in the future constitute the temporal continuum (chou).”  -Wing-tsit Chan)

Chow, Stephen (周星馳, Chinese filmmaker)

Chretien de Troyes (French writer)

Christian II (king of Denmark, Norway & Sweden)

Christian III, IV V & VII (kings of Denmark & Norway)

Christian VIII, IX & X (kings of Denmark)

Christian Science (founded in 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy, defined as “divine metaphysics” and “the law of God. the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine principle and rule of universal harmony.”)

Christensen, Hayden (Anakin Skywalker, Canadian actor) see Star Wars.

Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa (British author)

Christina (queen of Sweden)

Saint Christopher (patron of travelers)

Chulalongkorn (king of Siam)

Chung (Chinese: center, the Mean)

Chung-shu (Chinese: conscientousness & altruism) “This is open to many possible translations but the central meaning must not be lost.  As the Confucian pupil Tseng Tzu said, it is the one thread of the Confucian doctrine.  In essence, chung means the full development of one’s originally good mind and shu means the extension of that mind to others.  In other words, it is the Confucian golden rule, or jen (humanity), with chung referring to the self and shu referring to others.  Any translation must involve these two aspects.” -Wing-tsit Chan

Church of God (founded in 1830 by John Winebrenner)

Where Christ erecteth his Church, the devil in the same church yard will have his chapel.  -Richard Bancroft

Churchill; Lord Randolph Henry Spencer & Winston Leonard Spencer (British statesmen)  My rule of life, prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite; smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and, if need be, during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Churchill, Winston (American author)

CIA (abbr. Central Intelligence Agency, formerly the OSS [Office of Strategic Services])

Ciardi, John Anthony (American writer)

Cibber; Colley & Theophilus (English actors & dramatists)

CID (abbr. Criminal Investigation Department [Scotland Yard] or Central Information Division)

The Cid (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, “(Arabic, El Seid, the lord), name of a famous character in Span. history and romance.  So much has his story been overgrown with legend that some have doubted whether he ever really existed; but it seems clear the original was Rodrigo Tiaz, b. c. 1030, called the Cid.  He played a prominent part in the struggles of his day, fighting now for Christians, now for the Moslems, but as a freebooter rather than a religious or political leader; d. 1099.  He has become the theme for a large body of Span. romances form XI to the XIX. cent’s; subject of Comeille’s play.”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

A Cigarette is the perfect type of the perfect pleasure.  It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.  What more could you want?  -Oscar Wilde

Cimabue, Giovanni (Italian artist, founder of Florentine school)

Circe (Greek sorceress of Aeaea)

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)

CKCU (93.1 fm, Canada’s first campus/community radio station; Ottawa, ON)

CKLW (the big 8, the blackest white music station; Windsor, ON)

Claimh (Irish: sword)

Clanna (Scottish: children)

Claque: “body of people who are hired to applaud in Fr. theaters; system dates from ancient times, organized in France beginning of XIX. cent.”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

Clark, Susan (Canadian actress)

Clarification question (hand signal, 1 hand in shape of a “c”)

Clathy: “Nervously indecisive about how safely to dispose of a dud lightbulb.”  -The Book of Liff

Claudius, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nebo Germanicus (Roman emperor)

Claudius, Marcus Aurelius (Gothicus, Roman emperor)

Clay, Cassius Marcellus (American abolitionist)

“The various steps from investigation of things and the extension of knowledge to bringing peace to the world are nothing but manifesting the clear character.  Even loving the people is also a matter of the clear character.  The clear character is the character of the mind; it is humanity.  The man of humanity regards Heaven and Earth and all things as one body.  If one single thing is deprived of its place, it means that my humanity is not yet demonstrated to the fullest extent.”  -Wing Yang-ming

Cleasaiche (Scottish: chief’s jester)

Cleomenes I, II & III (kings of Sparta)

Cleopatra VII (queen of Egypt)

Cline, Patsy (American country singer)

Clinton; George, James & De Witt (American politicians & soldiers)

Clio (Greek muse of history)

Clixby: “Politely rude.  Briskly vague.  Firmly uninformative.”  -The Book of Liff

Coal: nonrenewable resource, fossile fuel peat, lignite, ordinary or bituminous coal & anthrate (burning creates carbon dioxide)

Cobain, Kurt (American musician & junky, Nirvana)

Cobb, Junius C. (Junie, American jazz saxaphonist)

Cochran, Jaqueline (American aviator)

Cockaigne: “imaginary land where all is idleness and luxury.”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

Cocteau, Jean (French artist, poet & dramatist)

Cocytus (from Greek Kukutos: river of lamentation)

Codeine (C18H21O3N; white crystalline alkaloid, from methylation of morphine)

Codex Juris Canonici (Latin: book of canon laws)

Cody, William Frederick (Buffalo Bill, American frontiersman & showman)

Coenwulf (king of Mercia)

Cohen, Leonard (Montreal poet)

Coke, Sir Edward (English jurist)

Col (abbr. collect, college, colony, Columbia, colonel, Colossians or an area between 2 peaks or ridges)

Colbert, Claudette (Lily Claudette Chauchoin, French actress)

Cole, Nat (King, American singer & pianist)

Cole, Thomas (English painter)

Coleman, Burl (Jaybird, American blues musician)

Coleridge; Samuel Taylor & Sara (British writers)  My father says that those who love intensely see more clearly than indifferent persons; they see minuteness which escape other eyes; they see “the very pulse of the machine.”  Doubtless; but then, don’t they magnify them by looking through the medium of their own partiality?

Colet, John (English theologian)

Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette, French novelist)

Collins, Michael (Irish revolutionary)

Collins, Sam (American blues musician)

Colt, Samuel (American firearms inventor & manufacturer)

Coltrane, John William (American junky, jazz musician & saint)

Saint Columba (Irish missionary)

“The champion human rights violator in the hemisphere is Columbia, also the leading recipient of U.S. military aid and training in recent years.  The pretext is the “drug war,” but that is “a myth,” as regularly reported by major human rights groups, the church, and others who have investigated the shocking record of atrocities and the close links between the narco traffickers, landowners, the military, and their paramilitary associates.  State terror has devastated popular organizations and virtually destroyed the one independent political party by assassination of thousands of activists, including presidential candidates, mayors, and others.  Nonetheless Columbia is hailed as a stable democracy, revealing again what is meant by “democracy.”  -Noam Chomsky

Comic plot is structured around laughable actions.  -Aristotle

The  Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.  -Sir James Mackintosh

Common (…Sense, Lonnie Rashid Lynn; Chicago MC)  Why is Bush acting like he trying to get Osama?/Why don’t we impeach him and elect Obama?  -remix of Jadakiss’s Why, 2005.

Competition: “An event in which there are more losers than winners.  Otherwise it’s not a competition.  A society based on competition is therefore primarily a society of losers.”  -John Ralston Saul

Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie Francois (French philosopher)

Concordia (Roman goddess of peace & friendship)

Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de (French philospher)

Condo, Ray (Canadian country musician)

Confucius (Chinese philosopher)

Le congres ne marche pas, il danse.  -Charles-Joseph, Prince De Ligne

Congreve, William (English dramatist)

Coniine (C8H17N, poisonous liquid alkaloid; found in hemlock)

Conn, High King (Ireland, of the Hundred Battles)

Connelly, Billy (Scottish comedian)

Connelly, James (Irish revolutionary)  I did not come here to die.

Connors, Stompin’ Tom (Canadian country musician)

Conrad (king of Jerusalem & Sicily)

Conrad II (Holy Roman emperor)

Conrad III & IV (kings of Germany)

Conrad, Joseph (Teodor Josef Konrad Korseniowski, Ukrainian writer)

Constable, John (British landscape painter)

Constantine I, II, IV, V, VII, VIII, IX & X (Roman emperors)

Constantine (king of Greece)

Constantius, Flavius Valerius (Roman emperor)

Consus (Roman god of agriculture)

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

-Walt Whitman

Contralto (lowest musical voice)

Contrapposto (Italian: counter balance)

“26. Ch’i-yuan asked: In investigating the principles of things and affairs to the utmost, should one investigate exhaustively the point where all principles converge?  What do you think?  Answer: There is no need to talk about the converging point.  All that is before our eyes is things and affairs.  Just investigate one item after another somehow until the utmost is reached.  As more and more is done, one will naturally achieve a far and wide penetration.  That which serves as the converging point is the mind.”  -Chu Hsi

Cook, Captain Francis Augustus (American naval officer, Endeavour)

Cook, James (English navigator)

Cook, Peter (English comedian)

Cooper, Alice (Vincent Furnier, rock singer)

Cooper, Dave (Ottawa artist)

Cooper, Gary (Frank James Cooper, American actor)

Cooper, James Fenimore (American novelist)

Copernicus, Nicolaus (Mikolaj Kopernik, Polish astronomer)

Corelli, Arcangelo (Italian composer & violinist)

Corinna (Greek poet)

Corman, Roger (American filmmaker)

Corneille, Pierre (French playwright)

Cornell, Katherine (American actress)

Coronach: “Gaelic dirge for the dead in Scot. Highlands; known in Ireland as “keening.””  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

“Corporation n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”  -Ambrose Bierce

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.  -Edward, First Baron Thurlow

Corpus Collosum (Latin: callous body, anatomy: connection between both hemispheres of the brain)

Corpus delicti (Latin: body of the crime)

Corpus juris (Latin: body of law)

Correggio, Antonio Allegri da (Italian painter)

Corriearklet: “The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven’t.  This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.”

Corriecravie: “To avert the horrors of corrieorrie (q.v.) corriecravie is usually employed.  This is the cowardly but highly skilled process by which both protagonists continue to approach while keeping up the pretense that they haven’t noticed each other–by staring furiously at their feet, grimacing into a notebook, or studying the walls closely as if in mood of deep irritation.”

Corriedoo: “The crucial moment of false recognition in a long passageway encounter.  Though both people are perfectly well aware that the other is approaching, they must eventually pretend sudden recognition.  They now look up with a glassy smile, as if having spotted each other for the first time, (and are particularly delighted to have done so) shouting out ‘Haaaaalllllloooo!’ as if to say ‘Good grief!  You!!  Here!!  Of all people!  Well I never.  Coo.  Stap me vitals, etc.'”

Corriemoillie: “The dreadful sinking sensation in a long passageway encounter when both protagonists immediately realize they have plumped for the corriedoo (q.v.) much too early as they are still a good thirty yards apart.  They were embarrassed by the pretence of corriecravie (q.v.) and decided to make use of the corriedoo because they felt silly.  Thi was a mistake as corrievorrie (q.v.) will make them far sillier.”

Corriemuchloch: “Word describing the kind of person who can make a complete mess of a simple job like walking down a corridor.”

Corrievorrie: “Corridor etiquette demands that once a corriedoo (q.v.) has been declared, corrievorrie must be employed.  Both protagonists must now embellish their approach with an embarrassing combination of waving, grinning, making idiot faces, doing pirate impressions, and waggling the head from side to side while holding the other person’s eyes as the smile drips off their face, until, with great relief, they pass each other.”  -The Book of Liff

Cosa Nostra (Italian: our enterprise)

Cosgrave, William Thomas (Irish statesman)

Cotterstock: “A piece of wood used to stir paint and thereafter stored uselessly in a shed in perpetuity.”  -The Book of Liff

Cotton Fever: when cotton is injected intravenously.

Courbet, Jean Desire Gustave (French painter)

Cousteau, Jacques Yves (French sea explorer)

Covenanters: “Scot. political party which held principles laid down by Scottish Covenants; persecuted after Restoration of 1660; defeated at Rullion Green, 1666; won battle against Claverhouse at Drumclog. 1679, but were defeated at Bothwell Brig, June 22, 1679; the following years are known as ‘the killing time.'”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

Coward, Sir Noel (British playwright)

Cowley, Abraham (English writer)

Cox, Alex (American director & writer)

CS (C6H4ClCH:[CN]2, [0-chlorobenzylidene]-malononitrile; white powder, used in tear gas, causes “tears, salivation, choking and painful breathing.”)

Cr (abbr. chromium, credit, creek, crescendo or crown)

Crabbe, George (British poet)

Cranach; Lucas & Lucas (the Elder & Younger, German artists)

Crane, Harold Hart  (American poet)

Crawford, Joan (Lucille Le Sueuer, American actress)

Crazy Horse (Sioux chief, joined Sitting Bull at Little Bighorn against Custer)

Creach (Scottish: male initiation involving theft of livestock)

Creon (king of Corinth)

Creon (king of Thebes)

Crichton, James “Scot. scholar, whose versatility has become proverbial; s. of Robert C., Lord-Advocate of Scotland; tradition states that he successfully carried on a debate in twelve languages in Paris, and next day won a match in a tournament; outstanding philosopher, mathematician, theologist; composer if Latin verses; a fine swordsman; a man of great beauty; killed in a street brawl.”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

Croll, James (Scottish scientist)

Crick, Francis Harry Compton (British biophysicist)

No Crime exists unless actus reus and mens rea take place at the same time, actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea.

Crockett; Allan, Albert, Clarence, George, Johnny & John Harvey “Dad” (Crockett Kentucky Mountaineers, American country musicians)

Croesus (last king of Lydia)

Croll, James (Scottish scientist)

Croly, Jane Cunningham (Jennie June, American writer)

Cronenberg, David (Canadian director)

Crookes, Sir William (British chemist & physicist)

Crosby, Harry Lillis (Bing, American singer)

Crumb; Charles, Robert & Maxon (American artists)

“Canada’s spy agency says it is “quite surprising” that terrorists have not detonated a crude radioactive bomb, given the availability of materials and ease with which they could be made into a weapon.”  -Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press, Jan. 3, 2007

Cukor, Goerge Dewey (American filmmaker)

Culen (king of Scotland)

Cullen, Countee (American poet)

Culpa (Latin: fault)

Cummings, Alan (British actor, Nightcrawler)

Cummings, Edward Estlin (e e cummings, American poet)

Cunard, Sir Samuel (Canadian businessman)

Cunningham, Merce (American choreographer)

Cunobelinus (Cymbeline, British chief)

Curie; Marie & Pierre (Polish/French chemists [respectively])

Curtis; Jamie Lee & Tony (American actors)

Curtiss, Glenn Hammond (American aviator)

Cusack; Joan & John (American actors)

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders (American actress)

Cutler, Allan (Canadian Adscam whistleblower)

Cwm (Welsh: coomb)

Cyanide (HCN, salt of hydrocyanic acid; poisonous)

Cyclopropane (C5H6; colourless gas, used as anaesthetic)

Cyclopes (sons of Uranus & Gaia; Brontes [thunderer], Steropes [lightener] & Arges [bright])

Cymru (Welsh: Wales)

Cynewulf (Anglo-Saxon poet)

The Cynics: “a Gk. philosophical school founded by Antishthenes (b. c. 436 B.C.), an acquaintance of Socrates.  Diogenes of Sinope (reported to have lived in a tub) is its best-known member.  They held that virtue is the only good, vice the only evil, everything else indifferent of even contemptible.  Hence they wished to discard all the gains of civilization, and preached a ‘return to nature,’ which was often exaggerated into uncontrolled license.”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinian de (French writer)

The Cyrenaics: “a Gk. philosophical school founded by Aristippus of Cyrene (c. 435-360 B.C.), an acquaintance of Socrates.  They held that the only good is the pleasure of the moment, and all else valuable only in so far as it produces pleasure.  Aristippus himself, though thoroughly a ‘man of the world,’ valued wisdom and cultures as liberating a man form external circumstances; his followers often fell either into licentiousness or into disillusioned pessimism”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

Cyrus II (the Great, king of Persia)

Czerny, Karl (Austrian pianist & composer)

Czolgolz, Leon (American anarchist & assassin of McKinley [Sept. 6. 1901])

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(de) Greek delta (Δ); Hebrew daleth: 4, 14, (folding) door, Wednesday; Arabic dad; runic dagaz: day, God’s light, prosperity, midsummer, beginnings & endings; Irish dair: the oak tree; Roman numeral for 500; day; daughter; date; december; democrat; department; Deus; deuterium; deuteron; died; doctor; Dominus; drachma; duchess; duke or denerius.

“The Devil is the father of all misunderstood geniuses.  It is he who induces us to try new paths; he begets originality of thought and deed.  He tempts us to venture out boldly into unknown seas for the discovery of new ways to the wealth of distant Indias.  He makes us dream of and hope for more prosperity and greater happiness.  He is the spirit of discontent that embitters our hearts, but in the end often leads to a better arrangement of affairs.  In truth, he is a very useful servant of the Almighty, and all the heinous features of his character disappear when we consider the fact that he is necessary in the economy of nature as a wholesome stimulant to action and as the power of resistance that evokes the noblest efforts of living beings. (Paul Canus)”  -The Sorcerer’s Handbook

Drugs: “No. 1 public enemy.”  -Richard Nixon  “The “international” war on drugs is a policy conceived, created and enforced by the government of the United States of America.  Originally, nations were cajoled, prodded or bullied into joining it.  Then it became international orthodoxy, and today most national governments, including Canada’s, are enthusiastic supporters of prohibition.”  -Dan Gardner, The Ottawa Citizen
“Most of the time, though, I found that a casual mention of the possibility of shutting off our foreign aid programs, dropped in the proper quarters, brought grudging permission for our operations almost immediatly.”  -Charles Siragusa, American narcotics agent
““U.S. decisions on foreign aid and other matters” should be “tied to the willingness of the recipient country to execute vigorous enforcement programs against narcotic traffickers.”  -1984 National Drug Strategy for Prevention of Drug Abuse and Drug Trafficking
“What is the result?  UN agencies estimate the annual revenue generated by the illegal drug industry at $400 billion, or the equivalent of roughly eight percent of total international trade.  This industry has empowered organized criminals, corrupted governments at all levels, eroded international security, stimulated violence, and distorted both economic markets and moral values.  These are the consequences not of drug use per se, but of decades of failed and futile drug war policies.
“In many parts of the world, drug war politics impede public health efforts to stem HIV, hepatitis and other infectious diseases.  Human rights are violated, environmental assualts perpetrated and prisons inundated with hundreds of thousands of drug law violators.  Scarce resources better expended of health, education and economic developement are squandered on ever more expensive interdiction efforts.  Realistic proposals to reduce drug-related crime, disease and death are abandoned in favour of rhetorical proposals to create drug-free societies.”  -Public letter to Kofi Annan; signed by over 800 people, including former secretary of state George Shultz, surgeon general Joycelyn Elders, 4 presidents & 7 cabinet ministers from Latin America, former president of Costa Rica Oscar Arias, Gunter Grass, former president of Nicaragua Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Robert L. Bernstein, former U.S. senator Alan Cranston, Anita Roddick, Sharon Carstairs, Marion Dewar, Edward Greenspan, Alexa McDonough & Jane Jacobs.

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(e) Greek epsilon (ε): 5; runic ehwaz: movement, horse, sun’s course; Scottish eubh: the aspen tree; Energy (=mc2  [see Einstein]); electron; electronic charge (1.602 192×10-19C); east or extinct.

“Returning you again to our omni-befuddled present, we realise that reorganization of humanity’s economic accounting system and its implementation of total commonwealth capabitity by total world society, aided by the computer’s vast memory and high speed recall comes first of all of the first-things-first that we must attend to to make our space vehicle Earth a successful man operation.  We may now raise our sights, in fact must raise our sights, to take initiative in planning the world-around industrial retooling revolution.  We must undertake to increase the performance per pound of the world’s resources until they provide all of humanity a high standard of living.  We can no longer wait to see whose biased political system should prevail over the world.”  -R. Buckminster Fuller

“The process of creating and entrenching highly selective, reshaped or completely fabricated memories of the past is what we call “indoctrination” or “propaganda” when it is conducted by official enemies, and “education,” “moral instruction” or “character building,” when we do it ourselves.  It is a valuable mechanism of control, since it effectively blocks any understanding of what is happening in the world.  One crucial goal of successful education is to deflect attention elsewhere–say, to Vietnam, or Central America, or the Middle East, where our problems allegedly lie–and away from our own institutions and their systematic functioning and behavior, the real source of a great deal of the violence and suffering in the world.  Is is crucially important to prevent understanding and to divert attention from the sources of our own conduct, so that elite groups can act without popular constraints to achieve their goals–acts which are called “the national interest” in academic theology.”  -Noam Chomsky

A Plea for Closing of Factories and Workshops

 

Let the toilers have more leisure,

Listen to their urgent call,

Gain is not the only treasure,

Liberty is sweet to all;

Why should lives be spent in labour,

Early morn till darkness fall?

When, alas! a needy neighbour

Hath no work to do at all!

 

Why this labour agitation

All along the busy line?

‘Tis the groaning of the nation —

Toilers feel they must combine:

E’re their rights have legislation,

E’re their wants shall have redress,

They must band in combination —

Ask their rights — and take no less!

 

Shorten then, the hours of toiling,

Thus make work for idle men;

Cease this constant, weary moiling:

EIGHT hours’ work instead of TEN!

Justice doth exalt a nation,

Right is might, and truth shall stand,

Health is wealth in every station

Good shall prosper such a land!  -John Imrie, The Regina Leader, 1888.

“The first triple attack on Canada in 1812 resulted in failure.  General William Hull, instead of invading, surrendered his post at Detroit, stating that since the administration had refused to protect his line of communication on Lake Erie, fighting would be useless.  At Niagara the New York militia refused to follow their leader, General Stephen Van Rensselaer, across the frontier, while and expedition to Montreal ended, for the same reason, at Plattsburg.  In 1813 another attempt was made by General W. H. Harrison, who had led the Americans at Tippecanoe, now was able with a force of frontiersmen to invade Canada across the Detroit River and his victory at the Thames was really important because of O. H. Perry’s conquest of Lake Erie shortly before, September 15.  The invasions from New York were delayed and for a time were unfruitful, but during the winter of 1813-14 the Americans concentrated on the Canadian side of Niagara River and in July gave excellent account of themselves at Chippewa and Lundy’s Lane.

“So far the war had been in theory offensive.  From the middle of 1814, however, the problem was to protect our territory against the British rather than to conquer Canada.  The British under General Ross landed from Chesapeak Bay and after easily driving the poorly led militia at Bladensburg, entered Washington on August 24.  They burned the capitol, the President’s house, etc., giving as an excuse the fact that Americans had burned certain provincial buildings in York (Toronto).  Baltimore was saved by the gallant defense of Fort McHenry.  Meanwhile Sir George Prevost was leading an invasion from Canada into northern New York.  Practicable access to the interior could only be had by way of Lake Champlain; therefore, when the squadron the he had constructed was defeated by that under Captain Thomas McDonagh his campaign was concluded in failure.  The exploit of McDonagh’s, together with that of Perry on Lake Erie, showed the great importance of controlling the northern lakes, the natural highways along the frontier wilderness.  The last attack of the British was on New Orleans.  Andrew Jackson in 1813 successfully led a force of frontier militiamen against the hostile Indians in the region north of Tennessee, had invaded West Florida, where Spain had been most hospitable to the British, and now at the end of 1814 was prepared to defend New Orleans against Sir Edward Pockenham’s force of 6, 000 regulars.  After some delay Jackson organized his defense in position with great rapidity and skill, and beat off the force of Old World warriors, who left behind them over 2, 000 killed, wounded and prisoners, while Jackson hand lost but 333.  This battle of New Orleans, fought without knowledge that the articles of peace had already been signed, brought the only first-rate victory of the war.”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

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(ef) Greek phi: 6, hook, nail; Arabic fa; runic fehu: possessions, cattle, wealth; Scottish fearn; chemistry: fluorine; farad; Faraday constant (9.648 670x104C mol-1); Fahrenheit; female or feminine.

Fa (Chinese: law; punishment; custom; duty; discipline; method; technique or model)  “In the Legalist School, it involves the three concepts of law, statecraft, and power.  In Buddhism, it means Buddhism itself, the Law preached by Buddha, Reality, Truth.  As a philosophical term, however, it is the Chinese rendering of dharma, which means “that which is held to.”  It connotes all things, with or without form, real or imaginary, the material or principle of an entity, something that holds onto its nature as a particular thing.  In this connection it is a most difficult term to translate.  The nearest English term to it is “element of existence,” taking unreal dharmas as having a negative existence.  It is best left untranslated except when it means the Law of the Buddha.”  -Wing-tsit Chan

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(je) Greek gamma: camel (γ); Arabic ghayn; Hebrew geemel: 3, 13, camel, Tuesday; 3rd letter of Hebrew aleph-bet; runic gebo (X): partnership, a gift, offerings; Scottish gort: the garden; free energy; gravitational constant (G: 6.664×10-11N m2 kg-2); acceleration at free fall (g: 9.806 65m* s-2); grain; gallon; guage; gauss; gelding; gender; good; guide; gulf; gramme or a thousand dollars.

GA (abbr. gallium, Georgia or general assembly)

GABA: y-aminobutyric acid, neurotransmitter (valium).

Gable, William Clark (the King of Hollywood, American actor)

Gabrilovitch, Ossip (Russian pianist)

Gaddi; Gaddo, Taddo & Agnolo (Italian artists)

Gael (Irish: Irishman)

Gaelach (Irish: Irish)

Gaff “(1) The name given to an implement used by fishermen for helping to land a fish.  It consists of a small spear with a hook or fork at the end.  (2) A nautical term used to denote a boom used by sailors to extend the upper end of the sails used by ships rigged fore and aft.”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

Gagarin, Yuri Alexeevich (Russian, 1st man in space [1961])

Gaia (Greek earth mother of the titans, Cyclopes & Hecatoncheires)

Gaiman, Neil (British writer)

Gaines, William M. (American publisher [MAD])

Gainsborough, Thomas (English artist, The Blue Boy)

Gaiseric, Genseric (1st Vandal king of Africa)

Gaius, Ceasar Caligula (Roman emperor)

Galad (Scottish: a brave lass)

Galatea (sea nymphs; or the statue Pygmalion carved, fell in love with, then came to life)

Galba, Servius Sulpicius (Roman emperor)

Galen (Greek physician)

Galerius, Valerius Maximianus (Roman emperor)

Galilei, Galileo (Italian astronomer)

Gall (Scottish: Gaul, Norseman, Saxon, Lowlander, any foreigner)

Galla (Scottish: a bitch)

Gallary, Slim (American jazz musician)

Gallaudet; Edward, jr. & Thomas (American educators for the deaf & dumb)

Gallienus, Publius Licinius Egnatius (Roman emperor)

Galt, Sir Alexander Tilloch (Scottish Canadian statesman, son of John)

Galt, John (Scottish novelist)

Galton, Sir Francis (English anthropologist, founder of eugenics, cousin of Charles Darwin)

Ganesha (Hindu god of prudence)

Gang (German: a going)

Ganz, Rudolph (Swiss pianist)

Gaol (Scottish: love)

“Punished behaviour is likely to reappear after the punitive contingencies are withdrawn.”  -B. F. Skinner

Garbo, Greta (Gustavson, Swedish actress)

Garcilaso de la Vega (Spanish poet)

Garden, Mary (Scottish soprano)

Garfield, James Abram (20th president of the U.S., assissinated July 2nd, 1881)

Garland, Judy (Frances Gumm, American actress & singer)

Garnett; Richard & jr. (English book keepers at the British Museum)

Garrick, David (English actor & dramatist)

Garrison, William Lloyd (American abolitionist)

Garvey, Marcus Moziah Aurelius (Jamaican founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association & responsible for the resettlement of Liberia)

Gas Law (ideal): PV=RT (a combination of Boyle’s Law [PV=K], the Pressure Law [P/T=K] & Charles’ Law [V/T=K])

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson, English novelist)

Gaudi, Antonio (Spanish architect)

Gauguin, Eugene Henri Paul (French painter)

Gauss, Johann Karl Friedrich (German mathematician)

Gautama, Siddhartha (the Buddha)

Gautier, Theophile (French writer)

Gay, John (English writer)

Gay, Marie Francoise Sophie (French writer & musician)

Gayadumsque (Micmac: Glooscap’s enemy, a giant beaver)

Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis (French chemist & physicist)

Gayner, Janet (American actress)

Ge (daughter of Phanes)

Geist (German: time, Hegel: spirit of the)

Gelatin: boiled bones & cartilage.

Gelb (German: yellow)

Geld (German: gold)

“Genealogy n. An account of one’s descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.”  -Ambrose Bierce

Genet, Jean (French writer)

Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.  -William Butler

Geneva Convention: concerns treatment of sick & wounded soldiers, neutrality of ambulances & hospitals, from Henri Dunant in 1864 (UN Souvenir de Solferino), followed in 1906 and adopted by most nations.

Le genie n’est qu’une plus grande aptitude a la patience.  -Comte De Buffon

Genius…has been defined as a supreme capacity for taking trouble (Thomas Carlyle)…It might be more fitly described as a supreme capacity for getting it’s possessors into pains of all kinds, and keeping them therein so long as the genius remains.  -Samuel Butler

Genius is one per cent inspiration and nine-ty-nine per cent perspiration.  -Thomas Alva Edison

“All men fall into two main divisions.  Those who value human relationships, and those who value social or financial advancement.  The first division are gentlemen, the second division are cads.”  -Norman Douglas

Genos (Greek: family)

Genshin (Yeshin Sozu, Japanese artist)

Geoffrey; Claude Joseph & Etienne Francois (French chemists)

Geoffrey; Saint-Hilaire & jr. (French zoologists)

George I & II (kings of Britain)

George III & IV (kings of Britain & Ireland)

George V & VI (kings of Britain, Ireland & emperors of India)

George I & II (kings of Greece)

George, Grace (American actress)

George; Henry & jr. (American economists)

Saint George (patron of England, Portugal & Aragon)

Gerardy, Jean (Belgian cellist)

Gerome, Jean Leon (French painter)

Geronimo (Apache chief)

Gerould, Katherine (American novelist)

Gershwin, George (Jacob, American composer)

Gerstenberg, Heinrich (German writer)

Geta, Publius Septimius (Roman emperor)

Ghiberti, Lorenzo (Italian sculptor)

Giant Panda (Chinese, 1 of the WMES)

Giants (born by the castration blood of Uranus)

Gibran, Khalil (Lebanese poet)

Gibson, Clifford (American blues musician)

“But the future dims the present even more than the present dimmed the past; ever since our night in Sorrento, all my love, all my life had been projected onto the future.”  -Andre Gide

Gielgud, John (English actor)

Gigantomachy (Greek: battle between gods & giants)

Gilbert, William Schwenk (English librettist & co-writer of Savoy operas with Sir Arthur Sullivan)

Gilfillan, George (Scottish poet)

Gilgamesh (Babylonian hero)

Gillespie, John Birks (Dizzy, Clown Prince of Bebop, American jazz trumpet player)

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (American writer)

Ginesthai (Greek: arise)

Ginsberg, Allen (American poet)

Ginsberg, Christian (Polish rabbinical scholar)

Giordano, Luca (Italian artist)

Giraldi, Giovanni Battista (Italian poet)

Girardin, Delphine de (French poet)

Giric (king of Scotland)

Giusti, Giuseppe (Italian poet)

Giver of Pain & Delight: “a hot woman, hopefully wearing Nancy Sinatra-like boots (female race in the original Star Trek episode, ‘Spock’s Brain’)  -Ebionics

Glas (Welsh: silvery blue)

Glasow: “The feeling of infinite sadness engendered when walking through a place filled with happy people fifteen years younger than yourself.”  -The Book of Liff

Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson (American novelist)

Glaspell, Susan (Mrs. George Cram Cook, American writer)

Glaucus “(1) Son of Sisyphus, torn in pieces by his own horses; (2) Lycian prince, slain by Ajax in Trojan War; (3) s. of Minos, accidentally smothered in a pot of honey, but miraculously restored to life; (4) fisherman of Anthedon (Boeotia), afterwards changed into a sea-god.”  -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

Glaukos (Greek: greyish blue)

Gleason, Herbert John (Jackie, American actor)

Glencoe (North Argyllshire, Scotland; where the MacDonalds were massacred [1692])

Glendower, Owen (Welsh nationalist)

Glenn, John Herschel jr. (American Mercury astronaut & politician)

Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (the Father of Russian music, Russian composer)

Glockenspiel (German: bell-play)

GLODO (abbr. Group for the Liberation of Orange Land and the Destruction of Others; TOPOFF-2, a fictional terrorist group created by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

Glooscap (the Master, Micmac guardian spirit of the waters)

Glover, Crispin (American actor)

Glover, Danny (American actor)

Glucose (C6H12O6, dextrose; crystalline soluble sugar in honey & fruit)

Glyn, Elinor Sutherland (British author)

Gnosticism: “a name used to embrace a number of sects on the borderland between Christianity and heathen thought.  Its root principle was not faith but knowledge (gnosis), which was given to the initiated only.  In its speculations it mixed up the Platonic theory of ideas (that everything has a spiritual arche-type) with an Oriental dualism which made all matter evil.  The supreme God was removed form the world and could only communicate with it by a number of aeons, in which various principles and ideas were personified.

“G. was antagonistic to Judaism, for it held that the God of the O.T. to be the Demiurge, a secondary God.  The opposition of spirit and matter is Gr. idea, but into this is united the idea of a conflict in the present world between forces of good and evil, which Zoroastrian Gnosticism was essentially mystical and also sacramental; many sacraments analogous to Christian rites were invented.  Like other heretics, Gnostics were charged with immorality, and not without cause, as they tended to oscillate between asceticism and licentiousness.  Christianity prevailed against the movement, as it also did against the Ebionites, some of whom leaned to Gnosticism.” -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

God: “Either God is alive, in which case he’ll deal with us as he sees fit.  Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.”  -John Ralston Saul

God the first garden made, the first city Cain.  -Abraham Cowley

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.  -Psalm 51:17

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.  -William Cowper

The world’s greatest age begins anew,
The golden years return,
The earth doth like a snake renew
Her winter weeds outworn;
Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam,
Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.  -Percy Bysshe Shelley

Godard, Jean-Luc (French director)

Godden, Rumer (British writer)

Godfrey of Bouillon (French leader in 1st crusade, 1096)

Godowsky, Leopold (Russian pianist)

Godwin, William (English writer, married Mary Wollstoncraft)

Goebbels, Paul Joseph (Nazi German minister of propaganda)

Goering, Hermann Whilhelm (Nazi German air minister)

Gogol, Nokolay Vasilyevich (Russian writer)

Golden Lion Tamarin (South American, 1 of the WMES)

Golding, William Gerald (British writer)

Goldman, Emma (Russian anarchist)

Goldsmith, Oliver (Irish writer)

Gompers, Samuel (English labour leader)

Goncharov, Ivan Alexandrovich (Russian novelist)

Goncourt; Edmond Louis Antoine de & Jules Alfred Huot de (French writers & critics)

Good & Evil: “101. I was pulling weeds out from among the flowers and there upon said, “How difficult it is in the world to cultivate good and remove evil!”
“The Teacher said, “Only because no effort is made to do so.”  A little later, he said, “Such a view of good and evil is motivated by personal interest and is therefore easily wrong.”  I did not understand.  The Teacher said, “The spirit of life of Heaven and Earth is the same in flowers and weeds.  Where have they the distinction of good and evil?  When you want to enjoy flowers, you will consider flowers good and weeds evil.  But when you want to use weeds, you will then consider them good.  Such good and evil are all products of the mind’s likes and dislikes.  Therefore I know that you are wrong.””  -Wang Yang-ming

Goodman, Benny (King of Swing, American jazz musician)

Goodyear, Charles (American inventor)

The Goon Show (English comedians Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan & Harry Secombe)

Gorboduc (British king)

Gordianus, Marcus Antonius (Roman emperor)

Gordimer, Nadine (South African writer)

Gordon, Bert I. (American director)

Gordon, Charles William (Ralph Connor, Canadian novelist)

Gordon, Ruth (American actress)

Gorgon (with the crown of snakes, killed by Athena)

The Gorgons (Medusa, Stheno & Euryale; female monsters that turned mortals to stone)

Gorky, Maxim (Alexei Maximaovitch, Russian author)

Goshun, Matsumura (Japanese artist, founder of Shijo school)

Gossett, Ted (American country fiddle player)

Gould, Glenn (Canadian pianist & composer)

Gouverner, c’est choisir.  -Duc De Levis

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.  -Philip Massinger

All government is evil, and the parent of evil… The best government is that which governs least.  -John L. O’Sullivan

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.  -Adam Smith

“The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better of a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.”  -J. M. Keynes

Goya y Lucientes, Francisco Jose de (Spanish artist)

Gra (Irish: love s.)

The Graces (daughters of Zeus, Thalia [the flowering], Euphrosyne [joy] & Aglia [the radiant])

Greatz, Heinrich (Jewish historian)

Graham, Martha (American ballet dancer & choreographer)

Graham, Sylvester (American food reformer)

Graham, Thomas (British chemist)

Grahame, Kenneth (British writer)

Graiae (sisters of the gorgons that share 1 eye between them; Dino, Enyo & Pemphredo)

Graim (Irish: love v.)

Gram (Norse sword of magic)

Grant, Cary (Archibald Leach, English actor)

Grant; Frederick Dent & Ulysses Simpson (American soldiers)

Grass, Gunter (German writer)

Grasso, Ella Tambussi (1st female American governor [1975])

Gratianus (Roman emperor)

Grattan, Henry (Irish statesman)

Graves, Robert Ranke (British writer)

Gravitation: “In this theory the presence of matter in space causes space to ‘curve’ in such a manner that the gravitational field is set up.  Thus gravitation becomes a property of space itself.”  -The Penguin Dictionary of Science

Gray, David (Scottish poet)

Gray, Elisha (American inventor)

Gray, Spalding (American actor)

Gray, Thomas (English poet)

Equo ne credite, Teucri.  Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis.  -Virgil

“When all principles of heaven and earth and the myriad things are put together, that is the Great Ultimate.  The Great Ultimate originally has no such name.  It is merely a name to express its character.
“122. There is no other event in the universe except yin and yang succeeding each other in an unceasing cycle.  This is called Change.  However, for these activity and tranquillity, there must be the principles which make them possible.  This is the Great Ultimate.”  -Chu Hsi

Greco, Dominico Theotocopuli El (Cretan artist)

Greeley, Horace (American journalist)

Green, Anna Katherine (American author)

Green, Jeff (Canadian producer, director, actor, &c, Cowboy Who?)

Green, Rick (Canadian comedian, Four on the Floor, Prisoners of Gravity)

Green Hornet (Van Williams)

Greenaway, Kate (Catherine, English water colourist & illustrator)

Greene, Henry Grahame (British writer)

Greene, Lorne Hyman (Canadian actor)

Greene, Robert (English writer)

Greene, Sarah Pratt (American author)

Greenhouse Effect: carbon dioxide traps long-wave radiation (solar energy) inside earth’s atmosphere.

Gregory, Augusta Lady (Irish writer)

Greim (Irish: bite s.)

Grell, Mike (American comics artist & writer, The Warlord)

Grenville, Sir Richard (English mariner, Revenge)

Grey, Albert Henry George Grey 4th Earl (governor general of Canada, Grey Cup)

Grey, Lady Jane (queen of England for 9 days)

Grey, Zane (American western writer)

Gribble, Wilfred (Canadian proletarian poet, Rhymes of Revolt)  

The writer of these verses is indifferent to the opinions which may be expressed on them by those who may consider themselves poetical critics.

Probably most, or all of them, will not be considered sufficiently “deep”, sufficiently obscure, to be real poetry.

If, however, the writer, having expressed, having given vent, by means of the contents of this book, to his own resentment at the present system of wage servitude and his own hope for the future, has succeeded in doing the same with others, the object of its publication will have been attained.

There are technical faults in some of these verses; there are crudities, a little homely slang is used at times; well, they were written by a worker for workers and if appreciated by the workers in revolt, that is all that seems necessary to [me].

Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (Norwegian composer)

Griffith, David Wark (Lewelyn, American director)

Grigg; Ausie, Crockett, Ione, Lorean & Robert (Taylor-Griggs Louisiana Melody Makers, American country musicians)

Grillparzer, Franz (Austrian writer)

Grimaldi, Joseph (English clown)

Grimm; Jacob Ludwig Karl & Wilhelm (German writers)

Gris, Juan (Jose Victoriano Gonzales, Spanish cubist painter)

Groening, Matt (American cartoonist, The Simpsons)

Gropius, Walter (German architect)

Gross; Mary & Michael (American actors)

Grosz, George (German dadaist artist)

Grotius, Hugo (Huig de Groot, Dutch lawyer & writer)

Group of Seven (Canadian painters, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. T. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald & F. H. Varley)

Grove, Sir George (British civil engineer & musicologist, Dictionary of Music and Musicians)

Growing Pains (Kirk Cameron & Alan Thicke, family sit-com introduced Brad Pitt & Leonardo Dicaprio to the small screen)

Growth: “The assumption that prosperity is dependent on growth is an inseparable part of our obsession with competition, our confusion over debt and our exclusionary approach towards economics.”  -John Ralston Saul

Grub Street (Milton Street, London; where poor writers lived)

Grunewald, Mathias (Mathis Gothart Neithart, German painter)

Gryphius, Andreas (German writer)

Guarneri; Andrea & Giuseppe (Italian violin makers)

Guatanamo Bay (Cuba, Camp X-RAy, Camp Delta; Gen. Sanchez & Gen. Miller commanding as they would later in Abu Graib, using identical policies for treatment of prisoners, 1st at Guatanamo at the request of Donald Rumsfeld, including “isolation,” “deprivation of light,” removal of “religious items and clothes,” “use individual phobias (such-as-from dogs),” “stress positions (like standing) a maximum of four hours,” “However,” Rumsfeld wrote, “I stand for 8-10 hours a day.”  Then Sanchez outlined similar methods for Abu Graib, “isolation,” “working dogs,” “stress positions,” “sleep management,” “dietary (&) environmental manipulation.”) “Guatanamo Bay’s climate is very different than Afghanistan.  To be in a eight-by-eight cell in beautiful sunny Guatanamo Bay, Cuba is not uh… inhumane treatment.”  -Donald Rumsfeld

Guericke, Otto von (German physicist)

Guevara, Ernesto (Che, Argentinian revolutionary)

Guido Reni (Italian artist)

Guiney, Louise Imogen (American poet)

Guinness, Alec (British actor)

Guiteau, Charles Julius (American lawyer & assassin of Garfield)

Guitry; Lucien & Sacha (French actors)

“I bought a gun but chose drugs instead.”  -Kurt Cobain

Gunn, Thomson William (British poet)

Gustavus I, II, III IV & V (kings of Sweden)

Gutenberg, Johann (German printer)

Guthrie, Thomas (Scottish preacher)

Guthrie; Woody, Arlo, Abe & Sarah Lee (American folk musicians)

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo.  -Bishop Hugh Latimer

Gwyn, Nell Eleanor (English actress, mistress of Charles II)

Gyges (king Lydia)

Gyp (Gabrielle Riquetti de Mirabaeu, French novelist)

 

Oh, why do ye thus meanly kneel,

nor dare your country save;

Arise! – gird on th’ avenging steel,

and tyrant minions brave.

 

And know ye not ye weakly frail,

that ye yourself must free;

Then why send forth that coward wail,

dare ye not freemen be?

 

And heard ye not that shout of scorn,

your tyrant masters send?

O’er the Atlantic wave ’tis borne

for you a Felon’s death?

Their graveless bones now grin and scorn,

they ask a bloody wreath.

 

Rise! swear by love’s eternal name,

swear by your father’s graves:

To avenge their death in blood and flame,

and crush your Tyrants — slaves.

 

Awake! Canadians arise,

’tis freedom calls to fight;

He nobly lives or nobly dies,

who battles for the right.

 

Little care they who may suffer,

How the poor may want for bread,

So they reap their golden harvest

To relinquish when they’re dead.

 

Do they hear the orphan wailing?

Do they heed the widow’s groan?

No, they curse the poor and needy,

For their hearts are turned to stone.

 

Let the poor forever perish

As by stern relentless fate;

And the rich forever fatten

On the wealth the poor create.

 

Let all living hope be crushed out,

And give place to black despair;

Let the monster that we worship

Pave with human bones his lair.

 

Let all faith be turned to falsehood,

And all love be turned to hate,

Let all life be a brutal struggle,

Every man against his mate.

 

Let all these things be and welcome,

But don’t dare to entertain

The idea that the toiler

Has a right to share the gain.  –Vincent, The Labour Union, 1883.

Living in a pent-up alley,

On the coarsest kind of food,

Whilst the rich man lives in luxury;

Is this human brotherhood?

 

Better far to be a savage,

In the desert roaming free,

Than live a life degraded,

And a mere machine to be.

But, cry preachers, be contented!

It is only for your good;

Man was made to toil and suffer —

Is this human brotherhood?

 

Vain it is to talk of freedom,

Whilst distinctions thus remain;

Slaves of wealth are slaves as truly,

As the slave that wears the chain.

Though all God’s earth was made for all men,

Owning not a single rood,

Robbed of all, and blamed for toiling,

Is this human brotherhood?

 

Arouse yourselves, ye toiling millions!

Join together in your might,

Cast off sleep — be up and doing

If you would obtain your right,

And oppression sweep before you

Like the torrent of a flood,

Be your watchword truth and justice,

Universal brotherhood.  –anonymous, The Ontario Workman, 1872.