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)
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(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.
Dante, Alighieri (Italian poet)
Darkman (Liam Neeson)
Darwin, Charles Robert (British scientist) I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Da-shealladh (Scottish: the two sights) “Lord Larbolt, in 1652, made a study of second sight in the Highlands of Scotland, and gave an account of his research work in a letter written in Gaelic, and published in 1876 in the magazine, ‘The Gael’ (vol. v. p.78). In that letter he said that there were men, women, and children, who had the second sight; that there were children who had it but not their parents; that some people had it when they were old who did not have it in their youth; that none of them could tell how they came to have it; and that it was a gift of which they would gladly rid themselves if they had the power.” -Mary L. Fraser

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“Consider the dead man. His spirit has drifted away and dispersed. Where are his heaven and earth and myriad things?” -Wang Yang-ming
December (10th month)
della Francesca, Piero (Italian painter)
Demeter (Greek goddess of grain & agriculture)
De Niro, Robert (American actor)
de Sade, Donatien Alphonse Francois, Comte (Marquis, French writer) hence sadism.
Descartes, Rene (French philosopher)
“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
Diabolus (Greek: devil)
Diana, Princess (Spencer, princess of Wales)
Dianoia (Greek: reasoning)
Dickens, Charles (English writer)
Dido (Queen of Carthage)
“Then a star fell to the earth and my whole family was destoyed in its flames. By chance I was not with them when it fell but I wished that I had died too.” -Lord of Punt, Master of the Myrrh Groves (Geraldine Harris)
I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery. -Samuel Johnson

DNA (abbr. deoxyribonucleic acid)
And as ye would have that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. -Luke 6:31
Doctrine in Four Axioms: 1.“In the original substance of the mind there is no distinction of good and evil.” 2.”When the will becomes active, however, such distinction exists.” 3.”The faculty of innate knowledge is to know good and evil.” 4.”The investigation of things is to do good and to remove evil.” -Wang Yang-ming
Dolphin (gestation period of 1 year)
Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moor; pearl spar, MgCO3.CaCO3)
Dominion (Latin: territory) as in The Dominion of Canada, or a tavern next to Zaphod’s. See Star Trek.
Donovan, Martin (American actor)
Dopamine: neurotransmitter (cocaine).
“Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.” -Gilbert Shelton
Dorian (Hellenic people, music: mode of white notes of D to D on the piano)
“68. A student must first of all learn to doubt.” -Ch’eng I
DOUBT EVERYTHING.
Doubt: “The only human activity of controlling the use of power in a positive way. Doubt is central to understanding.” -John Ralston Saul
Douglas, Charles (American inventor of Laff Box, the laugh track used on television)
Douglas; Kirk, Michael, Diana & Cameron (American actors)
Drake, Nick (British folk musician)
Drama (Greek: thing done)
Dreamtime (Australian: when people turn to animals & animals into people)
Dreckig (German: dirty)
Dromedary camel (one hump)
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.
Dubh (Irish: black)
Dudelsack (German: bagpipes)
Duvall, Robert (American actor, THX-1138)
Dylan, Bob (Robert Allen Zimmerman, American folk musician)
Dysmorphophobia: “the conviction that you don’t quite look right.”
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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
E is for Ecstasy, MDA.
L’education nous faisait ce que nous sommes. -C.-A. Helvetius
“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
Egoyan, Atom (Canadian director)
EHF (abbr. extremely high frequencies, radio frequencies between 30 000 & 300 000 megahertz)
A Plea for Closing of Factories and WorkshopsLet 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 neighbourHath no work to do at all!Why this labour agitationAll 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 stationGood 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
Einstein, Albert (German physicist)
Eire (Irish: Ireland)
Eireannach (Irish: Irish, man or woman)
Eisner, Will (American comics artist & writer, The Spirit)
Eispnelos (Greek: he who breathes into another, lover)
Ekstasis (Greek: standing outside oneself)
El (Hebrew: god)
Elah (Hebrew: goddess)
“These positive and negative conventions are purely arbitrary, but much of science is based upon them. It is an observed fact that a force of repulsion acts between like charges and a force of attraction acts between unlike charges: the region in which these forces act is called an electronic field.” -The Penguin Dictionary of Science
Eleos (Greek: pity)
Elephant (gestation period of almost 2 years)
Elfman, Danny (American composer, Oingo Boingo)
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans, English writer) An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
Eliot, Thomas Stearns (American poet) In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in from which we have never recovered.
Eloah (Hebrew: God)
Elohee (Hebrew: divine)
Eloheem (Hebrew: God)
Embryo: 2-8 weeks old, the phase after ovum, and before becoming a fetus.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (American poet) What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.
Emet (Hebrew: truth, life god)
Endorphins & Enkephalins: neurotransmitters (heroin).
The mass of energy cannot be changed (ordinarily).
My English is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. -Edward Gibbon
So now they have made our English tongue a gallimaufry or hodgepodge of all other speeches. -Edmund Spencer
Enlil (Sumerian lord of earth & wind, son of Anu)
Eno, Brian (American musician & producer, Talking Heads)
Eos (Greek goddess of dawn)
Epadein v. (Greek: enchant, enchanting song)
Ephedrine (C6H5CHOHCH[CH3]NHCH3; white crystalline optically active alkaloid, used to treat asthma, colds, &c.)
Ephemeris Time (time based on orbital movements of the planets & moon)
We wish, in a word, equality–equality in fact as corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his need; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically– -Michael Bakunin
A gentleman harranging on the perfection of our law, and that it was equally open to the poor and the rich, was answered by another, So is the London Tavern.
Erato (Greek muse of love poetry)
Erectheus (king of Athens)
Erinn (Old Irish: Ireland)
Erinyes (Greek: the Furies; Alecto, Megaera & Tisiphone, born of Kronos’ blood when castrated by Uranus, also said to be daughters of Acheron & Nox))
Eris (Greek: strife; Greek goddess of discord, sister of Ares)
Ernst (German: earnest)
Ernst, Max (German dadaist & surrealist)
Eroberin (German: conquor)
Eromenos (Greek: beloved, boy)
Eros (Greek god of love)
Esau (Hebrew: harry, Arabic: semen)
Eso (Greek: within)
Estuarine (saltwater crocodile, crocodylus porosus; largest living reptile)
Et (Latin: and) Et tu, Brute? (see Shakespeare)
Ethanol (Ethyl alcohol, C2H5GH; fermented sugar)
Ethos (Greek: moral custom)
Eudaimonia (Greek: happiness)
Europa (Phoenician princess, great granddaughter of Io; carried by the bull/Zeus to Europe)
European Bison (Polish, 1 of the WMES)
Euterpe (Greek muse of music & lyrical poetry)
eV (abbr. electronic volt)
The business of everybody is the business of nobody. -Lord MaCaulay
For everything exists & not one sigh nor smile nor tear,
One hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away. -William Blake
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. -Timothy 6:10
“If one destroys principle and indulges in desires to the limit, he will be inviting evil fortune.” -Chang Tsai
Nothing in excess. -Greek aphorism
“All grandeur, all power, all discipline are founded on the executioner. He is the horror of the human association and the tie that holds it together. Take out of the world this incomprehensible agent, and at that instant will order give way to chaos, thrones fall and society vanish. God, who is the source of all sovereignty, is, therefore, the source of punishment, too.” -Joseph de Maistre
Expanding Universe: based on the red shift (colour of light emitted from objects as they move away or the observer moves away, as seen in stars) & the theory of relativity.
Experto credite. -Virgil
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholsome: if you believe the theologins, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. -Lord Salisbury
In a cat’s eyes, all things belong to cats. -English proverb.
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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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Feldstein, Al (American comics writer)
Feles (Latin: cat)
Felix (Latin: happy)
No action must be deemed a crime but what the law has plainly determined to be such: No crime must be imputed to a man but from legal proof before his judges; and even these judges must be his fellow-subjects, who are obliged, by their own interest, to have a watchful eye over the encroachments and violence of the ministers. -David Hume
Laisser-faire. -Marquis D’Argenson
“A female friend, amiable, clever and devoted, is a possesion more valuable than parks and palaces, and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none can be content.” -Benjamin Disraeli
What lasting joys the man attend
Who has a polished female friend -Cornelius Whurr
Femina (Latin: female)
Fenris (Norse wolf covering winter sky, child of Loki)
“Fiddle n. An instrument to tickle the human ears by friction of a horse’s tail on the entrails of a cat.” -Ambrose Bierce

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. -Cosimo De Medici
“Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.” -Howell Forgy
Formaldehyde (HCHO, oxidized methanol)
Fox; Edward & James (British actors)
France, Anatole (Jacques Thibault, French writer) La majestueuse egalite des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les pont, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and the morals hold
Which Milton held. -William Wordsworth
Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever.” -Lord MaCaulay
“Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to.” -R. G. Collingwood
Free Masons: Grand Lodge, Knights Templar, Royal Arch, Scottish Rite & The Shrine (Shriners). “Between about 1550 and 1700, the Freemasons changed. They ceased to be an illegal trade union of working masons who accepted the doctrines of the Catholic Church, and became an organization of intellectual gentlemen who favoured religious toleration and friendship between men of different religions, and thought that a simple belief in God should replace controversial theological doctrines.” -Jasper Ridley, The Freemasons
Fuath (Irish: hatred)
Fuathaim (Irish: hate)
Fuck n.v. (see Screw)
Fuisce (Irish: whisky)
Fuller, R. Buckminster (American inventor of the geodesic dome)
Fuller, Samuel (American writer & director)
Fuller, Sarah Margaret (the Marchioness Ossoli, American writer)
So little done, such things to be. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. -Matthew 6:34
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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)
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(ach) Greek eta: 8; Arabic ha; Hebrew heh or heth: 5, fence, barrier; runic hagalaz: disruption, hail, sleet, natural disasters; chemistry: hydrogen; heat content (enthalpy, H); magnetic field strength; henry; hecto-; harbour; height; high; hour; hundred; husband; hard(ness) or Planck’s constant (p=6.626 196×10-34 j s, h=hl2Π).
Hamlet (prince of Denmark, Lawrence Olivier) see Shakespeare.
Hannibal (Carthaginian general, Anthony Hopkins)
Hansen, Marc (American comics artist & writer, Ralph Snart)
Be happy while y’er leevin,
For y’er a lang time deid. -Scottish house motto
“The Lord is Coming! Everyone look busy!” -Jason Harper
Harrison, Jerry (American musician; The Modern Lovers, Talking Heads)
Hartman, Phil (Canadian actor)
Hawking, Stephen (American physicist)
Hayes, Isaac (American composer, actor & king of a small tribe in Africa; Chef, Truck Turner)
Hazing: primitive initiation ritual.
“I am certain of nothing, but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination–what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth–whether it existed before or not.” -John Keats
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? -John 3:12
Hedone (Greek: pleasure)
Heenalu (Hawaiian: surfing)
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (German philosopher)
Hegemon (Greek: leader)
Heh (Egyptian: eternity)
Hel (Norse goddess of death by disease, daughter of Loki & Angurboda; lives in Niflheim, eternal snow & darkness)
Helen (Dendrites [of the tree], daughter of Zeus & Nemesis)
Helewale (Hawaiian: naked, without purpose)
Hell, Richard (Meyers, American rock musician, Television, The Heartbreakers)
Hemp (Cannabis sativa) renewable multipurpose resource (fuel, oil, paper, clothing, food, &c.)
“Much of the most irrational juvenile violence and killing that has written a new chapter of shame and tragedy is traceable directly to this hemp intoxication. A gang of boys tear the clothes from two school girls and rape the screaming girls, one boy after the other. A sixteen-year-old kills his entire family of five in Florida, a man in Minnesota puts a bullet through the head of a stranger on the road; in Colorado a husband tries to shoot his wife, kills her grandmother instead and then kills himself. Every one of these crimes had been preceeded by the smoking of one or more marihuana ‘reefers’.” -Harry J. Anslinger, U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics
Hendrix, James Marshall (Jimi, American rock musician)

Henson, Jim (American Muppeteer)
Hepburn, Katherine (American actress)
Hephaestus (Greek god of metalwork, son of Zeus & Hera)
Hera (Greek goddess of the bed, wife of Zeus)
Heracles (Greek: glory of Hera, son of Zeus & Alcmene)
Hermes (Greek god of thieves, travelers & dead)
H is for Heroin (white crystalline compound, C17H17NO(C2H3O2)) see Opium.
Heston, Charlton (formerly the quintessential American actor)
Hewlett, David (Canadian actor)
Hexagon: the shape of snowflakes.
HF (abbr. high frequency, 3000 – 30 000 kilohertz)
Hi (Japanese: yes)
From the l0ne shieling of misty island
Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas–
Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland,
And we in dreams behold the Hebrides!
For we are exiles from our father’s land. -John Galt
Himmel m. (German: heaven)
History & Government: “As to setting up schemes or arranging for details, neither the Book of History nor Confucius said anything about them. Is it because they ignored substance and overlooked details? Probably because the ancient institutions were meant to govern the ancient world and cannot be generally followed today, the superior man does not base his activities on them, and because what is suitable today can govern the world of today but will not necessarily be suitable for the future, the superior man does not hand it down to posterity as a model.” -Wang Fu-chih
History is philosphy from examples. -Dionysius of Halicarnassus
There is properly no history; only biography. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
En effet, l’histoire n’est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs. -Voltaire
Hitchcock, Alfred (British director)
HIV (abbr. human immunodeficiency virsus)
Hobbes, Thomas (English philosopher)
Hodur (Norse, blind brother of Balder)
We’ll o’er the water to Charlie;
And live or die wi’Charlie.
Holle f. (German: hell)
Holos (Greek: whole)
Ce corps qui s’appetlait et qui s’appelle encore le saint empire romain n’etait en aucune maniere ni saint, ni romain, ni empire. -Virgil
Homme, Bob (Canadian, The Friendly Giant)
Homer (Greek poet, Simpson [see Groening])
Honda, Inoshiro (Japanese director)
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. -Matthew 13:57
Reddiderit iunctura novum. -Horace
Ut prisca gens mortalium,
Paterna rura bubus exercet suis,
Solutus omni faenore. -Horace
Hormones (proteins [insulin], steroids [cortisone] or organics [adrenline])
“You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.” -Dorothy Parker
Hubris (Greek: anger, vindictive or arrogant pride)
Hue: “The characteristic of a colour that is determined by its wavelength.” -The Penguin Dictionary of Science
Hulk (Lou Ferrigno)
Humans: aquatic apes; renewable resource, inhales oxygen & exhales carbon dioxide.
Hume, David (Scottish philosopher)
Hund (German: dog)
Hupokritike (Greek: art of being an actor)
Huston, John (American director)
Hydrocarbons: renewable fuel oil, natural gas or gasoline (paraffin [candle wax], methane); burning creates carbon dioxide.
Hydrogen: 1st and simplest element.
Hyoscine (C17H21NO4, scopolamine; crystalline alkaloid)
“A physical phenomenon chiefly met in the elsastic and magnetic behaviour of materials. When a body is stressed, the strain produced is a function of the stress. On releasing the stress, ther strain lags behind; i.e. the strain for a given value of stress is greater when the stress is decreasing than when it is increasing. On removing the stress completely, a residual strain remains. This lagging of effect behind cause is called hysteresis. It also occurs in induced magnetism.” -The Penguin Dictionary of Science.
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(i) Chinese: change, easy, by, righteousness, moral principle, river, standard, then, to increase; Greek iota: 10, hand; Roman numeral for 1; runic isa: standstill, ice, frozen; Scottish iubhar: the yew tree; chemistry: iodine; electricity; imaginary unit; independent; island or isospin.
IDIC (abbr. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations) see Star Trek.
“Idiot n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.” -Ambrose Bierce
Juris ignorantia est cum jus nostram ignoramus.
IHS (abbr. Greek: Jesus Christ, iesuous christos)
“I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.” -Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world.” -Albert Einstein
Certum est quia impossibile est. -Tertullian
Improvement: “To render this mountainous district contributary as far as it possible to the general wealth and industry of the country, and in the manner most suitable to its situation and peculiar circumstances. To convert the former population of these districts to industries and regular habits and to enable them to bring to market a very considerable surplus quantity of provisions of the supply of the large towns in the southern parts of the land, or for the purpose of exportation.” -John Loch
“No one, of course, asked what the people wanted. Improvement was a moral obligation and scarcely a matter for debate. But suspicious of improvements that announced themselves in writs of eviction, the Highlanders of Sutherland may have desired to live as they had always lived, to do without roads, bridges, wheeled vehicles and the religions of their lairds; to wear the bonnet of cotton cap, neckcloth and coarse plaid, to operate illicit stills, to sing the Psalms in Gaelic and to believe in the Evil Eye.” -John Prebble (see Highland Clearances)
Inaendaugwut (Ojibway: it is permitted)
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. -Samuel Johnson
INCB (abbr. International Narcotics Control Board, a division of the UN, 13 people monitoring compliance with international drug law)
In this country, my Lords, …the individual subject… ‘has nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.’ -Bishop Samuel Horsley
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality. -John Ruskin
Injuria non excusat injuriam (Latin: one injury does not excuse another)
Inuk (Inuit: a human being)
Inuksuk (Inuit: to act in the capacity of a human being)
97% of animal life on earth are invertebrates.
“To investigate is to rectify.” -Wang Yang-ming
Io (princess of Argos, priestess to Hera, turned to a cow by Zeus) see Tauroparthenos.
Ion (king of Athens, son of Apollo & Creusa; charged particle)
Ionian (leaders of Greece before conquored by the Lydians, music: mode of C on a piano)
Ionic (Greek; style of architecture; a foot, verse or meter)
IRA (abbr. Irish Republican Army) ‘The Anglo-Irish war of 1919-21 brought fresh communal violence, as did the Treaty settlement when unionists faced the problem of stabilizing their new state. Previous manifestations of nationalist rebellion, such as the bids for Irish Home Rule in 1880s, had been met with often terrible violence, and now that Northern Ireland’s political leaders were presented with the problem of constructing a political order that was opposed by up to a third of its citizens, they and their supporters in organizations such as the Orange Order turned to old, reliable methods. The early 1920s saw scores of killed in riots, gun battles, and burnings; in the early 1930s violence erupted again. Catholics made up a disproportionate number of the fatalities.“Faced on the one hand with official state forces that regarded them as hostile and on the other by irregular Protestant mobs that often went on the rampage while the RUC and B Specials turned a collective blind eye, Catholics inevitably came to look on the IRA as a defensive force first and foremost.” Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA
Irons, Jeremy (English actor)
Irradiaton: food “preserved” by radiation.
Isaac (Hebrew god of wells)
Ishtar (Akkadian goddess of love, fertility & war)
Islam (Arabic: submission to God) Sunni, Shiite & Ismaili Mulsims, who 1.have no god but Allah 2.pray 5 times daily 3.fast at Ramadan 4.give away 1/40 of income (zakat) 5.visit Mecca.
Islamic Jihad (Iranian terrorist cell)
Isonomia (Greek: equal rights under law)
Israel (Hebrew: strives with God; declared a state May 14, 1948 by David Ben Gurion)
Itami, Juzu (Japanese director)

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(ja) Arabic jim; runic jera: harvest, year, fruition; the latest addition to the English alphabet; joule or jack.
Jacobs, Jane (Canadian writer)
Jacobus (German: James)
James I, King (England, Seumas VI of Scotland, commissioned first English Bible)
Cats and monkeys, monkeys and cats–all human life is there. -Henry James
“The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That–with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success–is our national disease.” -William James
Jarmusch, Jim (American director)

Jawan (Arabic: passionate love)
For jealousy is the rage of man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengence.
He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts. -Proverbs 6:34
Jeans (blue): “One of the most successful impositions of voluntary visual conformism in the history of the world. Curiously enough, the primary attribute of this particular piece of clothing is meant to be a reaction of conformity in the name of individualism.” -John Ralston Saul

Jen (Chinese: kernel, humanity, ability; person; to weaken) “Jen is man’s mind.” -Mencius ““the character of the mind” and “the principle of love.” This has become a Neo-Confucian idiom. It means that, as substance jen is the character of man’s mind, and, as function, it is the principle of love.” -Wing-tsit Chan
“”The mind of Heaven and Earth is to produce things.” In the production of man and things, they receive the mind of Heaven and Earth as their mind. Therefore, with reference to the character of the mind, although it embraces and penetrates all and leaves nothing to be desired, nevertheless, one word will cover all of it, namely, jen.” -Chu Hsi
“As manifested in function, Confucius referred to it as humanity, origination, and nature. Mo Tzu referred to it as universal love. The Buddha referred to it as ocean of ultimate nature and compassion, Jesus referred to it as the soul and as loving others as oneself and regarding one’s enemies as friends, and scientists refer to it as the power of love and power of attraction. They all refer to this thing. The realms of elements of existence, empty space, and sentient beings all issue from it.” T’an Ssu-t’ung
“…for now Jesus Christ walks the waters of another planet, bleeding only history from his old wounds.” -Elizabeth Smart
Jewison, Norman (Canadian director)
Jihad (Arabic: Holy fighting in the Cause of Allah or any other kind of effort to make Allah’s Word [ie: Islam] superior. Jihad is regarded as one of the fundamentals of Islam)
Jizo (Japanese god of dead children)
Upon the earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride. -Job 41:32
“I do not even consider here the immeasurable loss incurred when a person is converted to a tool of production, so that, as Adam Smith phrased it, he “has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention” and “he naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become,” his mind falling “into that drowsy stupidity, which, in a civilized society, seems to benumb the understanding of almost all the inferior ranks of people.” What is the loss in “efficiency” and social product resulting from this enforced stupidity? What does it mean to say to say that a person driven to such “drowsy stupidity” by his conditions of work still remains “free”?” -Noam Chomsky, 1976
“The first casualty when war comes is truth.” -Hiram Johnson

Johnson, Robert (American blues musician)
Johnson, Samuel (British lexicographer) Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Jones, Danko (Canadian rock musician)

Judge not, that ye be not judged. -Matthew 7:1
Juko Kai (mod. American martial art involving resiliance to pain & pressure)
July (Julius Caesar)
Jumon (Japanese: mantra, Kuji-in vow made with hand gestures)
June (Latin junius, gens: family)
Jung, Carl Gustav (Swiss psychiatrist) At present we educate people only to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases all together, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired…. Vast number of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the important things.
Jupiter (astronomy: largest planet of this solar system with 12 moons, between mars & saturn; 300 times bigger than earth; or Roman god Jove [Zeus])
Jure (Latin: right, or just)
“Justice n. A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes, and personal service.” -Ambrose Bierce
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(ka) Greek kappa (κ); Hebrew kaph: 11, bent/palm of the hand; Arabic kaf; runic kano: opening, torch, skiff, Nerthus; chemistry: potassium (kalium); kelvin; kaons; Boltxmann constant; karat; king; knight; Kochel number or kopeck.
k (rate constants)
Ka (Egyptian: spirit)
Ka’bah (Islam: square shrine at the Great Mosque in Mecca holding the Black Stone Gabriel gave Abraham)
Kabuki (Japanese: art of singing & dancing)
Kakapo (New Zealand, 1 of the WMES)
Kafir (Arabic: infidel)
Kafka, Franz (Czech writer)
Kailyard (Scottish: garden)
Kalakaua, David (king of Hawaii)
Kaleidoscope (invented by Sir David Brewster)
Kali (Indian goddess of death & destructions, wife of Shiva, necklace of human heads or a Philippian martial art involving sticks hardened by heat)
Kalidahs: monstrous beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers.
Kalidasa (Sanskrit writer)
Kama: (Hindu god of love)
Kampf (German: struggle) “No one can doubt that this world will some day be exposed to the severest struggles for the existence of mankind. In the end, only the urge for self-preservation can conquor. Beneath it so-called humanity, the expression of a mixture of stupidity, cowardice, and know-it-all conceit, will melt like snow in the March sun. Mankind has grown great in eternal struggle, and only in eternal peace does it perish.” -Adolf Hitler
Kanaoka, Kose No (Japanese artist)
Kandinsky, Wassily (Russian painter)
Kane, Paul (Canadian painter)
Kant, Immanuel (German philosopher)
Karageorge, Tserni Petrovich (Serbian revolutionary)
Karamchand, Mohandas (Gandhi, Indian lawyer & activist)
Karaoke (Japanese: empty orchestra)
Karate (Japanese: way of the open hand)
Kari (Norse god of air)
Karloff, Boris (William Pratt, British actor, Frankenstein)
Kardinal Offishall (Jason Drew Harrow, Toronto musician)
Karman, Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Khalid (توكل عبد السلام خالد كرمان, Yemeni activist)
Katholou (Greek: universal)
Kato (Bruce Lee)
Katz (German: cat)
Kauffmann, Maria Anna Angelica (Swiss painter)
Kavadh I & II (kings of Persia)
Kaye, Danny (American actor)
Kazan, Elia (Kazanjoglous, Turkish director)
Kean; Charles John & Stephen Watts (American major generals)
Keaton, Buster (Joseph Francis, American silent film actor)
Keats, John (English poet)
Keele: “the horrible smell caused by washing ashtrays.” -The Book of Liff
Keeler, Ruby (Canadian actress, married to Al Jolson)
Keeshan, Bob (Clarabelle the Clown [Howdy Dowdy Show], Captain Kangaroo, American actor)
Keller, Helen Adams (American author & activist)
Kelley, DeForest (American actor, McCoy) see Star Trek.
Kelley, Gene (American song & dance man)
Kelling: “A person searching for something, who has reached the futile stage of re-looking in all the places they have looked once already, is said to be kelling.” -The Book of Liff
Kelly, Grace Patricia (American actress)
Kelvin, William Thompson 1st Baron (Irish physicist)
Kemble; Roger, John Philip, Charles, Frances Ann & Adelaide (English actors)
Kendo (Japanese: the art of fencing)
Kennedy, John Pendleton (American statesman)
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy
Kenner, Hugh (Canadian writer & professor of English)
Kenneth I, II & III (kings of Scotland [Mac Alpin])
Kenny, Elizabeth (Australian pioneer of polio treatment)
Kenobi, Obi-wan (Alec Guiness, Ewen McGregor) see Star Wars
Kepler, Johannes (German astronomer)
Kerensky, Alexander Feodorovich (Russian revolutionary)
Kern, Jerome David (American songwriter)
Kerouac, Jack (American writer)
Sero sed serio. -Kerr clan motto
Kerr, John (British physicist)
Kesik (Cree: space or sky)
Key, Ellen (Karolina Sofia, Swedish writer)
Keyes, Frances Parkinson (American author)
Keyserling, Count Hermann Von (German philosopher)
KGB (abbr. Komityet Gosudarstvyennoi Byezopasnosti [commission of state security])
Khalid, Ibn Abdul Aziz (4th king of Saudi Arabia)
Khan; Jenghiz & Kublai (Mongol emperors)
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruholla (Iranian ruler)
Khronos (Greek: time)
Khronios (Greek: long lasting)
“Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, frightened flesh.” -William S. Burroughs
“Smoking through the monkey’s eyes.” -Matt Kidd
Kidd, Captain William (Scottish pirate)
Kids in the Hall (Canadian comedians: David Folley, Scott Thompson, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney & Kevin MacDonald)
Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye (Danish philosopher)
Thou shalt not kill.
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. -Dion Boucicault
Kilmister, Ian (Lemmy, British rock musician; Hawkwind, Motorhead)
Kimmel, Jimmy (American comedian)
Kindergarten (founded by Frederick Froebel in 1837)
King, Basil (William Benjamin, Canadian writer)
King, Rodney Glen (American survivor of police brutality, acquittal sparked the LA Riots)
King, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther jr. (American civil-rights leader) I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

King, William Lyon Mackenzie (3rd Liberal Canadian prime minister)
Kingsley; Charles & Mary Henrietta (English writers)
Kinsey, Alfred Charles (American zoologist)
Kipling, Joseph Rudyard (British writer)
Kipper (smoke-dried herring)
Kirk, John Foster (Canadian historian)
Kisfaludy, Karoly (Hungarian author)
Rather an honest slap than a false kiss. -Yiddish Proverb
Klein, Naomi (Canadian author & activist, The Shock Doctrine, No Logo)
K’naan (Keinan Abdi Warsame, Somali/Canadian musician)
Know thyself. -inscribed on Apollo’s temple at Delphi
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. -Francis Bacon
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. -Ecclesiastes 1:18
“Knowledge is the begining of action and action is the completion of knowledge. Learning to be a sage involves only one effort. Knowledge and action should not be separated.” -Wang Yang-ming
It may be, our proverb, that knowledge is no burthen, may be true as to one’s self, but knowing too much is very apt to make us troublesome to other people. -Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Knowles; James K., James Sheridan & Richard Brinsly (American writers)
For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. -Luke 8:17
Knox, Alexander (Canadian actor)
Knox, John (Scottish reformer, The Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women)
Ko (Chinese: investigate, rectify; change; to arrive; submit; kill)
K-os (Kevin Brereton, Canadian musician)
Koch, Robert (German physician)
Koenig, Walter (American actor, Chekov) see Star Trek.
Koestler, Arthur (Hungarian writer)
Kollwitz, Kathe (German artist)
Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodensis, largest living lizard)
Komoidia (Greek: comedy)
Konig, Karl Rudolph (German physicist)
Koon-ut-kal-if-fee (Vulcan marriage rite) see Star Trek.
Koran (Islam: Mohammad’s revelations from Gabriel)
Kore (Greek: daughter; girl; pupil)
314 Canadian soldiers were killed in the Korean war.
Kosmos (Greek: ornament)
Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand Von (German dramatist)
Kovaks, Ernie (American comedian)
Koyetsu, Honnami (Japanese artist)
Kraken (Norse: giant squid, largest known invertibrate & cephalopod mullusk)
Krav Maga (Israeli martial art)
Kreisler, Fritz (Austrian violinist)
Krenek, Ernst (Czech composer)
Kricfalusi, John (Canadian producer, Ren & Stimpy)
Krishna (Hindu: the black one, 8th incarnation of Vishnu)
Kronos (Greek titan, father of Zeus, son of Uranus & Gaia)
KRS-One (Lawrence Parker, American rapper)
Krudener, Barbara Juliana Baroness Von (Russian mystic)
Krupa, Gene (American jazz drummer)
Krypton (inert gas, or where Superman is from)
Ku (Chinese: fact; reason; firm)
Kuamoo (Hawaiian: backbone, path or custom)
Kubelik, Jan (Bohemian violinist)
Kublai Khan (1st Mongol emperor of China, grandson of Jengis)
Kubrick, Stanley (American director)
You would hear how Lady Charlotte had tarried in this place ten days, but I got very little good of her. She was so cherche and recherche. She dined with me one day, however, and had John Wilson to show off with, and there arose a question whether a woman of a right way of thinking would not rather be stabbed as kicked by her husband (observe this burn hole, Miss, it is a sure sign either you or I are going to be married; but keep that to yourself, and excuse this parenthesis, which, indeed, is rather too long, but I hope you have not such an antipathy to them as Dean Swift had; he, honest man! could not abide the sight of them, which was certainly a prejudice on his part; for mine, I think, there are worse things in the world than parentheses). But to return to where I was (which, indeed, is not such an easy matter, as I must turn the page to see where I left off; it was at the burnt hole, and here I am just coming upon another, which looks as if we were both going to wed; I wonder who it will be to!) I am for a stabber, but I dare say you will be putting up with a kicker. It was talking of Lord Byron brought on the question. I maintain there is but one crime a woman could never forgive in her husband, and that is kucking. Did you ever read anuthing so exquisite as the new canto of “Childe Harold”? It is enough to make a woman want to fly into the arms of a tiger; nothing but a kick could ever have hardened her heart against such genius. -Susan Ferrier
Kuei-shen (Chinese: spiritual beings) “Ch’en Ch’un said that kuei-shen should be discussed under four categories: that in the Confucian Classics, that in ancient religious sacrifices, that in latter-day religious sacrifices, and that referring to demons and gods. By the Confucian Classics he meant the Classics as interpreted by the Ne0-Confucianists, namely, kuei-shen as positive and negative forces behind events. Thus expansion is shen while contraction is kuei. This naturalistic and philosophical meaning should always be kept entirely distinct from the other meaning in the first three categories, namely, kuei-shen as spiritual beings. In ancient times shen usually refers to heavenly beings while kuei refers to spirits of deceased human beings. In latter-day sacrifices, kuei-shen together refers to ancestors. In popular religion shen means gods (who are good) and demons (who are not always good). In Neo-Confucianism kuei-shen may refer to all these three categories but more often than not the term refers to the activity of the material force (ch’i). Chang Tsai’s dictum, “The negative spirit (kuei) and positive spirit (shen) are the spontateous activity of the two material forces (yin and yang),” has become the generally accepted definition.” -Wing-tsit Chan
Kuji-in (Japanese: 9 syllable seals (mudra), Ninjitsu energy channelling) see Jumon.
Kuleshov Effect (Lev Kuleshov, associative film editing)
K’un (Chinese: earth)
Kurios (Greek: standard)
Kurosawa, Akira (Japanese director)
Kwang-Hsu (emperor of China)
Kyd, Thomas (English writer)
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(el) Greek lambda (Λ, λ); Hebrew lamed: 30, ox goad; Arabic lam; runic laguz: flow, water, sea, fertility; Scottish luis: the quicken-tree; Roman numeral for 50; latent heat; inductance; lake; large; left; length; line, linking number or liter.
The jaws of sheep have made the land rich,
but we were told by the prophecy
that sheep would scatter the warriors
and turn their homes into a wilderness.
The land of our love lies under bracken and heather,
every plain and every field is untilled,
and soon there will be none in Mull of the Trees
but Lowlanders and their white sheep. -Angus MacMhuirich
LASER (abbr. light amplification by stimulated emission radiation, optical maser)
Than die too late!
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. -Luke 11:52

Leacock, Stephen (English writer)
Lead2 (Plumbum)
Lead Poisoning: 225 000 tons of lead are released by automobiles every year.
“The great benefit of learning is to enable one to transform his physical nature himself. Otherwise he will have the defect of studying in order to impress others, in the end will obtain no enlightenment, and cannot see the all-embracing depth of the sage.” -Chang Tsai
Do the Least.
Leaud, Jean-Pierre (French actor)
LED (abbr. light-emitting diode)
Lee, Bruce (Chinese martial artist)

Lee, Spike (American joint roller)
Lee, Stan (American comics creator)
Leigh; Janet & Jennifer Jason (American actresses)
Leigh, Mike (British director)
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure. -Samuel Johnson
Lennon, John (English rock musician)
Lennoxlove: It is the garden of Scotland. -Agnes Strickland
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. -John Donne
Lewis, Jerry (American comedian)
Lewis, Jerry Lee (American rock musician)
Lewis, Richard (The Prince of Pain, American comedian)
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. -Samuel Johnson
LF (abbr. low frequency, 30 – 300 kilohertz)
Li (abbr. lithium, Chinese: principles or 500 meters)
Liber (Latin: book)
Lichtenstein, Roy (American painter)
Life: “one continued sacrifice of inclinations, which, to indulge, however laudable or innocent, would draw down the malice and reproach of those prudent people who never do ill, ‘but feed, and sleep, and do observances, to the stale ritual of quaint ceremony.’” -Sarah Siddons
Light Speed: 186 281 miles per second, equal to the speed of gravity.
Light Year: 9.4605×1015 metres or 5.878 48×1012 miles.
I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. -Luke 10:18
Lilith (Hebrew: dark moon, 1st woman)
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or over-throw it. -Abraham Lincoln
Lind, Jenny (the Swedish Nightingale, soprano)
L is for Lion.
Lipos (Greek: fat)
“listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go.” -e e cummings
Lithium (Li, alkali metal)
Little Murders (Alan Arkin)
The Loch Policy (from James Loch, cultural genocide of Scotland)
Locke, John (English philosopher)
Toute loi qui viole les droits imprescriptibles de l’homme, est essentiellement injuste et tyrannique; elle n’est point une loi. -Maximilien Robespierre
Loki (Norse god of fire, brother of Aegir & Kari)
Lombardo, Guy Albert (Canadian band leader, the Royal Canadians)
London (England, Ontario; or The Littlest Hobo)
Lopez, Israel (Cachao, Cuban bass player, created the mambo)
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. -Julia Ward Howe
Louis, Joe (Joseph Louis Barrow, the Brown Bomber; American boxer, held the world heavyweight title for 12 years with 25 fights)
Lovecraft, H. P. (American writer)
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. -Psalm 88:18
But no one can love who has not a heart. -L. Frank Baum
LSD (abbr. lysergic acid diethylamide; or librae, solidi, denarii, Latin: pounds, shillings, pence)
Luan (Scottish: moon, paunch; Irish: woman’s breast; La luan: Doomsday).
Lucerna f. (Italian: lamp or light)
Lucifer (Latin: light bearer)
Luein (Greek: solve)
Lugosi, Bela (Hungarian actor, Dracula)
Luini, Bernardino (Milanese painter) “But Luini’s figures have their interest, creatures of dream-guilt and trance, with ripe chestnut hair and heavy lids and moist passive lips, contagious with Lombard fever of pleasure which was Milan’s way of expressing despair.” -Rachel Annaud Taylor
Lusis (Greek: solution)
Luther, Martin (1st German translator of the Bible & leader of the Protestant Reformation)
Lyceum (Aristotle’s school)
Lycurgus (Spartan lawmaker, he who carries out the works [or celebrates the orgies] of the wolf)
Lye, Les (Canadian actor, You Can’t Do That on Television, Willy & Floyd’s Arms)
Lynde, Paul (middle square)
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(em) Phoenician mem: water, 13th letter; Greek mu (μ); Hebrew mem: 40; Arabic mim; runic mannaz: the self, man, woman, people; Scottish muin: the vine; Roman numeral for 1000; magnetization; mass; milli-; metre; mega; male; masculine; master; Monsieur; mile; million; minute; married; physics: Mach number or mutual inductance; majesty; medieval; medium; member; meridian; chemistry: metal; logic: middle term of a syllogism; minim; modulus; molar or Latin: meridies: noon.
MacDonald; James Edward Hervey & Thoraeu (Canadian painters)
Macdonald, James Williamson Galloway (Scottish painter)
MacDonald, Sir John Alexander (Scottish self-styled “lawyer,” founded Canada as prime minister with the railroad and high tariffs, notorious drunk–responsible for “Chinese head tax,” residential school system, ordered the execution of Louis Riel) “We are doing all we can, by refusing food until the Indians are on the verge of starvation, to reduce the expense.”

Macdonald, Ronald St. John (Canadian professor & judge of international law)
MacDonald, Thoreau (Canadian painter, son of J. E. H.)
Macdonald, Sir William Christopher (Canadian philanthropist, son of Donald)
MacDonald, Wilson Pugsley (Canadian poet)
MacEwen, Jean (Canadian painter)
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander (Scottish explorer, 1st to cross North America)
Mackenzie, Alexander (2nd Canadian prime minister [1st Liberal])
Arise – Canadians
Arise – Canadians, arise,and battle for the right;Fair liberty’s the glorious prizeawake then to the fight.
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 bornefor 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.
MacLennon, John Hugh (Canadian writer)
MacLeod, Pegi Nicol (Canadian painter)
Mac mallachd (Scottish: the evil one)
MacMillan, Sir Ernest Alexander Campbell (Canadian musician)
Macphail, Agnes Campbell (1st female MP)
Mac-Sheumais-Chataich (Scottish: Chief for the day)
Mac-tire (Scottish: wolf, son of the country)
Maddin, Guy (Canadian director)
Maeterlinck, Count Maurice (Belgian writer)
Magi (Zoroastrianism: priest)

The Mammon Worshippers
Lives of millionaires remind usHow to get dishonest spoil,And departing leave behind usMillions wrung from sons of toil.
Little care they who may suffer,How the poor may want for bread,So they reap their golden harvestTo 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 perishAs by stern relentless fate;And the rich forever fattenOn the wealth the poor create.Let all living hope be crushed out,And give place to black despair;Let the monster that we worshipPave 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 entertainThe idea that the toilerHas a right to share the gain. –Vincent, The Labour Union, 1883.
Manet, Edouard (French painter)
Manitou (Cree, Algonquin: Creator)
Manomin (Ojibway: wild rice)
Mantis (Greek: soothsayer)
“Gentlemen who use MSS as drunkards use lamp-posts–not to light them on their way but to dissimulate their instability.” -A. E. Housman
March (Latin mars: war god, Anglo-Saxon Hlyd monath: stormy month & Hraed monath: rugged month) 2nd, 1945: Anne Frank dies in a Nazi concentration camp; 8th, 1971: “Smokin” Joe Frazier beats Mohammad Ali (heavyweight); 11th, 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev succeeds Constantin Chernenko as president of the USSR; 15th, 44 AC: Ceasar is assassinated; “the Lempa River massacre of March 16, when thousands of refugees attempted to cross the river for two days under constant attack by the Salvadoran air force in cooperation with the Honduran army, who killed refugees with machetes and beat them to death with rifle butts…” -Noam Chomsky
Marx, Karl (German journalist & philosopher, founder of Communism)
Mary, Queen (Queen of Scots; House of Stewart)
Masculus (Latin: male)
MASER (abbr. microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation)
Mason, James (British actor)
Matt, Joe (Canadian comics artist & writer, Peep Show)
Matter: “A specialized form of energy that has the attributes of mass and extension in space and time.” -The Penguin Dictionary of Science
The total mass of matter cannot change.

Maxwell, James Clerk (Scottish physicist)
May (Latin magnus: great, deus maius: Jupiter)
McAskill, Angus (the Cape Breton giant)
McCamus, Tom (Canadian actor)
McCarthy, Brendan (English comics artist, Tank Girl)
McClelland; John Gordon & jr. (Canadian publishers)
McClung, Nellie Letitia (Canadian writer)
McConnell, Robert Murray Gordon (Canadian jazz musician, Boss Brass)
McCurdy, James Frederick (father of biblical studies in Canada)
McEwen, Clifford MacKay (Black Mike, Canadian WWI fighter pilot)
McFadden, David William (Canadian poet)
McFarlane, Todd (Canadian comics artist, Spawn)
McGarrigle; Kate, Anna & Jane (Canadian musicians)
McKean, Dave (British artist, musician & director)
McKinney, Louise (Canadian activist, legislator & eugenicist, Famous Five)
McLaren, Norman (Canadian director)
McLaughlin, Isabel (Canadian painter)
McLean, John (Am Bard MacGilleathain, Scottish poet)
McLuhan, Herbert Marshall (Canadian professor of English)
McMahon, Brian (American rock musician; Slint, Palace)
McNair, J. Herbert (Scottish artist, the Glasgow School)
McNaughton, General Andrew George Latta (Canadian chief of general staff [1929-1935], Distinguished Service Order, brigadier-general, commander of the 1st Canadian Army & Inonesian sovereigntist)
Meat (40% of slaughtered cows are processed as byproducts, used in insulation, crayons, glue, marshmallows, soap, gum, pasta, fish food, film, &c.)
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.” -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mediterranean Monk Seal (1 of the WMES)
Megis (Ojibway: an oval shaped shell)
Melanin (C17H98O33N14S, melanocytes; skin pigment which absorbs the sun’s radiation)
Melpomene (Greek muse of tragedy)
Memistikosiw (Cree: French man)
Mencius (Chinese philosopher, Confucianist)
Mens Rea (Latin: true crime, law: mental evidence) 1.specific intent 2.general intent 3.wilful intent 4.recklessness 5.negligence.
Menthol (C10H20O, crystalline compound in camphor oils)
Mercuric Chloride (HgCl2, poisonous white crystalline salt)
Mercury (astronomy: planet closest to the sun; quicksilver, Hydrargyrum, Hg, liquid metal, cinnabar [HgS])
Mescaline (C11H17NO3, white crystalline powder from the mescal cactus, hallucinogen)
Mesopatamia: the land between the rivers.
Messie: Messiah ou Meshiah, en hebreu; Christos ou Eleimmenos, en grec; Unctus, en latin; Oint. -Voltaire
The Metabolic Rate of animals is proportonate to the body weight.
Meyer, Russ (American director)
MF (abbr. medium frequencies, 300 – 3000 kilohertz)
Mikkyo (Japanese: secret Buddhism) see Kuji-in.
Milky Way (our galaxy)
Miller, Dick (American actor)
Miller, Frank (American comics artist & writer, Sin City)
Millet, Jean (French painter)
Milligan, Peter (English comics writer, Shade the Changing Man)
Mimos (Greek: imitate)
Ming (Chinese: destiny, fate; dark; mandate; order; ignorance; name; understanding)
Mingus, Charles (American jazz musician)
Minos (king of Cnossos, father of Ariadne)
Minthe (Nymphe of the Cocytus river, torn to peices by Persephoe & bled the mint of Samikon)
Mi-run mor nan Gall (Scottish: the Lowlander’s great hatred)
Mr. Show (Bob Odenkirk & David Cross)
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mitchell, Joni (Roberta Joan Anderson, Canadian folk musician)
Miyamoto, Nobuko (Japanese actress)
MKS (abbr. metres, kilograms & seconds)
Mnemosyne (Greek goddess of memory, mother of the Muses)
MO (Scottish: my, abbr. Latin modus operandi: way of doing things, Missouri, mail order, money order or medical officer)
Mob Mentality: the dilution of responsibility.
Mod (Gaelic: assembly, abbr. modern, moderate, moderato, modulus or ministry of defense)
Monday (day of the moon)
Monet, Claude (French painter)
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. -Francis Bacon
Monk, Thelonius Sphere (American jazz musician)
Quelqu’un pourrait dire de moi que j’ai seulement fait ici un amas de fleurs etrangeres, m’y ayant fourni di mien que le filet a les lier. -Montaigne
Moore, Alan (English comics writer, Watchmen, V for Vendetta)
Moore, Michael (American director)
Moore, Thomas (Irish poet)
“Literary expressions are art and moral principles are substance. If one is earnest about substance and writes down with art, it will be beautiful and loved. As it is loved, it will be transmitted to posterity. The worthy can then learn it and achieve its object. This is education.” -Chou Tun-i
M is for Morphine (C17H19O3N, white crystalline alkaloid found in opium).
Morrison, Jim (American rock singer, The Doors)

Morrison, Sterling (American rock musician, The Velvet Underground)
Morrissey (English rock singer, The Smiths)

MS (abbr. manuscript)
Mugwump (from Algonkin mugquomp: chief) defined by the United States Congress as: “a man that sits on the political fence with his mug on one side and his wump on the other.”
Muhammad (prophet of Islam)
Munch, Edvard (Norwegian painter)
Munro, Alice (Canadian writer)

Muthos (Greek: story)
Muto (Latin: change)
The Mysteries: “The saying of many ridiculous things and many serious things.” -Aristophanes
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(en) Phoenician nun: fish; Greek nu (ν); 25th letter in Arabic nun; Hebrew nu: 13th letter, noon: 14th letter, 50, failure; runic nauthiz: constraint, need, necessity, sorrow, hardship, lessons; Irish nuin: the ash tree; chemistry: nitrogen; neutron; newton; north; number; Avagadro number; normal or noun.
Nagara (Hindi: man of taste & culture)
Nahmoyah (Cree: no)
Nakba (Arabic: catastrophe, the displacement of Palestinians by Israel in 1948)
Nanna (Sin, Sumerian moon god; Norse, wife of Balder)

AppleMark
Narceine (C23H27NO8.3H2O; white crystalline alkaloid, found in opium)
“One’s Nature is the one source of all things and is not one’s own private possession. It is only the great man who is able to know and practice its principle to the utmost. Therefore, when he establishes himself, he will help others to establish themselves. He will share his knowledge with all. He will love universally. When he achieves something, he wants others to achieve the same. As for those who are so obstructed themselves as not to understand this principle of mine, nothing can be done.” -Chang Tsai
As husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown,
And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means ‘sickening to contemplate’; the second means ‘sick at the stomach.’ Do not, therefore, say ‘I feel nauseous,’ unless you are sure you have that effect on others.” -Strunk & White
Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. -John Keats
Neighbour Principle: “You must take reasonable care to ovoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour.” -Lord Atkin
Nelligan, Emile (Canadian poet)
Nemesis (Greek goddess of retributive justice, daughter of Oceanus, Queen of Motives & arbitress of all things)
Nemo (Latin: no one)
NEMO JUDEX IN SUA CAUSA (Latin: no one should be a judge in their own cause)
NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT. -Crown & regiments of Scotland motto
Neptune (astronomy: between uranus & pluto)
Nerve Gas (a derivative of phosphoric acid)
Neuron (nerve cell)
Neurotransmitter: chemical secreted between neurons.
Forty Thousand StrongWe are coming Mr. Coaker from the East, West, North and SouthYou have called us and we’re coming to put our foes to rout,By Merchants and by Governments too long we’ve been misruled,We’re determined now in future and no longer we’ll be fooled,We’ll be brothers all and freeman and we’ll rightify each wrong,We are coming Mr. Coaker and we’re forty thousand strong.We have proved that Reid and Morris are in love but with their purse,That the treatment of the fishermen is daily getting worse;They’ve been tried and been found wanting, so we’ll surely turn them down,For we now have got the Leader who upon us shall not frown.It is you shall slay the Dragons who have cowed us down so long,We are coming Mr. Coaker and we’re forty thousand strong.We are coming Mr. Coaker, men from Green Bay’s rocky shore,Men who stand the snow white billows down on stormy Labrador;They are ready and awaiting, strong and solid, firm and bold,To be led by you like Moses, led the Israelites of old.They are ready for to sever from the merchant’s servile throng,We are coming Mr. Coaker and we’re forty thousand strong.We are coming Mr. Coaker, Bonavista Bay will fight.As their fathers ever foremost to give battle for the night,Trinity Bay today is solid, you and our good cause to back,While the bold Placentia Bay men sure you’ll find they won’t be slack,We’ll be firm and true and steady, and will help our cause along,We are coming Mr. Coaker and we’re forty thousand strong.We are coming Mr. Coaker and though sharp shall be the fight,Yet we trust in you our Leader, and our God will do the right,All our beacon fires are lighted and we see them brightly burn;With our motto ‘No Surrender’ all our enemies we will spurn,Led by you we’ll never falter, God shall help our cause along,We are coming Mr. Coaker and we’re forty thousand strong.-“a union man,” The Fisherman’s Advocate, September 1913
They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth. -James Russell Lowell
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. -John Locke
Newton, Sir Isaac (English physicist)
Newton’s Laws of Motion: 1. Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line except in so far as it is compelled by external forces to change that state. 2. Rate of change of momentum is proportional to the applied force, and takes place in the direction in which the force acts. 3. To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
“O Babylon! O Carthage! O New York!” -Siegfried Sassoon
New York Dolls (rock band; David Johansen, Johhny Thunder, Sylvain Sylvain, Jerry Nolan & Billy Murcia)
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (German philosopher)
Night (sister of Ether & Chaos, Phanes’ concubine)
“During the Renaissance, Florence developed a reputation for being pervaded with homosexuality – “sodomy” in the language of the time. Smarting from this reputation, reeling from population loss suffered during the Black Death, and pressured by homophobic clerics, in 1432 the city government set up a judicial panel called “The Office of the Night” exclusively to solicit and investigate charges of sodomy.” –Paul Varnell, Windy City Times.
Nike (Greek goddess of victory)
Nimoy, Leonard (American actor, Spock) see Star Trek.

1947 (Palestinian leaders regect UN proposal to split Palestine between Jews & Palestinians)
1950 (September 13th: Jake “the Bronx Bull” LaMotta knocks-out Laurent Dauthuille with 13 seconds left in the fight [saves middleweight title])
1951 (Valentine’s Day: Sugar Ray Robinson beats LaMotta in 13 rounds [middleweight])
1955 (September 21st: Rocky “the Brockton Blockbuster” Marciano knocks-out Archie Moore and retires undefeated [heavyweight])
1963 (Rubin “Hurricane” Carter beats Emile Griffith [welterweight], Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night, BBC’s Doctor Who & the J. F. K. assasination)
1964 (February 25th: Cassius Clay beats Charles “Sonny” Liston [heavyweight])
1967 (Canada turns 100, summer of love & Kurt Cobain is born)
1971 (May issue of Creem magazine introduces the terms punk rock & heavy metal as genre names)
1973 (January 22nd: George Foreman beats Frazier [heavyweight])
1974 (October 30th: Ali beats Foreman in Zaire [heavyweight])
1975 (September 30th: Ali beats Frazier [heavyweight])
1976 (George Foreman knocks-out Ron Lyle at Ceasar’s Palace in the 5th round, John Artis & Rubin Carter are freed, then found guilty again of 1966 shooting, Jonathan Richman’s The Modern Lovers, Martin Scorsese’s Taxidriver, 2 Viking probes land on mars, George Bush is the 1st politician appointed head of the CIA, death of Mao Tse Tung, “Furthermore, in 1976 we can hardly ignore the fact that the power of the American state has been employed, on a massive scale, to impose capitalist social forms and ideological principles on unwilling and resisting victims thoughout the world. Academic ideologists and political commentators in the media may choose to interpret history in other terms, but the business press is considerably more accurate in observing that the “stable world order for business operations,” “the international economic structure, under which U.S. companies have flourished since the end of Word War II,” has been dependent on organized violence of the state. “No matter how negative a development, there was always the umbrella of American power to contain it,” though in the world after Vietnam, they fear, this may no longer be so.” -Noam Chomsky)
1982: “The greatest moviegoing year for science fiction fans ever. Releases included: Poltergeist, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Liquid Sky, Blade Runner, Tron, The Road Warrior, Videodrome, The Thing, E.T., and many more.” -Ebionics
1984 (a book, a film, and year of futuristic nightmare)
1985 (the year Michael J. Fox came from; April 15th: Marvin Hagler beats Thomas Hearns)
1986 (November 22nd: Mike Tyson beats Trevor Berbick [heavywieght].)
The Ninety and NineThere are ninety and nine who live and dieIn want and hunger and cold,That one may revel in luxuryAnd be lapped in its silken fold.The ninety and nine in hovels bare,The one in a mansion with riches rare.They toil in the fields the ninety and nine,For the fruit of our mother earth.They dig and delve in the dusky mineAnd bring its hid treasures forth,But the wealth released by their sturdy blowsTo the hands of the one forever flows.From the sweat of their brows the desert bloomsAnd the forests before them falls.Their labour has builded humble homesAnd cities with lofty halls.But the one owns cities and homes and landsAnd the ninety and nine have empty hands.But the night so dreary and dark and long,At last shall the morning bring,And over the land the victors’ songOf the ninety and nine shall ring,And echo afar from zone to zone,Rejoice for labour shall have its own. –Mrs. R. S. Smith, The Labor Reformer, 1886
Ninjitsu (Japanese marial art)
Nipa (Cree: sleep)
Nipewin (Cree: bed)
Nipoin (Cree: death)
Nippon (Japanese: land of the rising sun)
Nirvana (Sanskrit: extinction, Seattle band) see Cobain.
Nitrous Oxide (Laughing gas, N2O; gas used as anaesthetic)
Nodens: Lord of the Great Abyss.
NoMeansNo (Victoria band)
Nomos (Greek: law or custom)
Nomothetai (Greek: law makers)
Nonnus (Egyptian poet, Dionysiaca)
Nostrodamus (Michel de Notre-Dame, French physician)
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. -Corinthians 4:18
Nouns of number, or multitude, such as Mob, Parliament, Rabble, House of Commons, Regiment, Court of King’s Bench, Den of Thieves, and the like. -William Cobbett
Arise Ye Nova Scotia SlavesIt is time for the coal miners to rise up on their feet,And crush the opposition wherever they will meet.Too long the capitalist party has kept the miners down,With their mansions full and plenty — on the miners they do frown.Through years past the coal companies have trodden down the poor,But now comes the crisis — the miners’ votes galore;The capitalists do shudder, they now must turn aside,To the miner’s class in power, and may we ever abide.And how often have we spoken about the miners of this land,Crushed by heavy burdens and that on every hand;They have no voice whatever; the miners were kept down,With the corporations in power, poor subjects for a Crown.Fathers, husbands, sons and brothers they have driven from their homes,By their unfair, unjust methods in this little Glace Bay town;And their shame they may try to flaunt, for the poor slaves pay them well,And by their filthy money they have sent their souls to hell.But the day is fast a-coming when the miners will be free,And the U.M.W. colors flying on the plains for all to see,And the name of E. S. McCullough we never will forget,A man who fights for freedom and he fights for honour yet.And when the strike is over, we’ll march in grand array,And we’ll ring ten thousand cheers for the U.M.W.A.And the scab will go under like a man before the gun,And the miners they will flourish when the dreary strike is won. –P. J. Lynch
Nowlan, Alden (Canadian poet)
Nu (Egyptian father of gods, “represents the primeval watery mass from which all the gods were evolved” -E. A. Wallis Budge)
Nut (Egyptian, “the female principle of Nu; she is depicted with the head of a snake surmounted by a disk, or with the head of a cat.” -E. A Wallis Budge)
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(o) Greek omicron, ou: eye; runic othila: seperation, inheritance, land, home; Scottish oi; chemistry: oxygen; pharmacology: pint; a hug; Irish: son or grandson; ocean, zero or ounce.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
The post of honour is a private station. -Joseph Addison

October Crisis (kidnapping of British trade consul James Cross & murder of Quebec cabinet minister Pierre Laporte; the darkest part of the Trudeau Era, a state of “apprehended insurrection” under the War Measures Act while over 450 people were arrested then released without hearing or charge [1970])
Octopus (vilgaris): invertebrate with the biggest brain.
“Od was a hypothetical force supposedly pervading all nature, particularly present in sensitive people. Baron von Reichenbach (1788-1869) proposed the theory to explain such phenomena a mesmerism and animal magnetism.”
Odawa (Ojibway ottawa: trade)
Odi (Latin: I hate)
Ognissanti (Italian: All Saints)
O’Hara, Maureen (American actress)
Oi! (pub rock, Slade)
Oighreachd (Scottish: chief’s land)
Oiketes (Greek: house slave)
Oikos (Greek: household)
Oldham, Ned, Paul & Will (American country musicians) see Palace.

‘The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfills himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.’ -Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Olivier, Sir Lawrence Kerr Baron Olivier of Brighton (English actor)

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. -Galatians 3:28
The advantage to doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. -Samuel Butler
Onoma (Greek: name)
Lays of LabourFrom the early dawn of morningTill the closing of the day,Helping to enrich anotherToiling hard for little pay;
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 doingIf you would obtain your right,And oppression sweep before youLike the torrent of a flood,Be your watchword truth and justice,Universal brotherhood. –anonymous, The Ontario Workman, 1872.

In Architecture as in all other Operative Arts, the end must direct the Operation. The end is to build well. Well building hath three Conditions. Commodity, Firmness, and Delight. -Sir Henry Wotton
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -John Stuart Mill
“…form opinions! Read Sophocles, Euripides and Dante and Proust. Read everything that you can find about art except the reviews. Read the Bible; read Hume; read Pogo. Read all kinds of poetry and know many poets and critics. Go to an art school, or two, or three, or take art courses at night, if necessary. And paint and paint and draw and draw. Know all that you can, both curricular and non-curricular–mathematics and physics and economics, logic, and particularly history. Know at least two languages besides your own, but anyway, know French. Look at pictures and more pictures. Look at every kind of visual symbol, every kind of emblem; do not spurn signboards or furniture drawings of this style or that style of art. Do not be afraid to like paintings honestly or to dislike them honestly, but if you do dislike them retain an open mind. Do not dismiss any school of art, not the Pre-Raphaelites nor the Hudson River School nor the German Genre painters. Talk and talk and sit at cafes, and listen to everything, to Brahms, to Brubeck, to the Italian hour on the radio. Listen to preachers in small town churches and in big city churches. Listen to politicians in New England town meetings and to rabble-rousers in Alabama. Even draw them. And remember that you are trying to learn to think what you want to think, that you are trying to co-ordinate mind and hand and eye. Go to all sorts of museums and galleries and to the studios of artists. Go to Paris and Madrid and Rome and Ravenna and Padua. Stand alone at St. Chapelle, in the Sistine Chapel, in the Church of the Carmine in Florence. Draw and draw and paint and learn to work in many media; try lithography and aquatint and silkscreen. Know all that you can about art, and by all means have opinions. Never be afraid to become embroiled in art or life or politics; never be afraid to learn to draw or paint better than you already do; and never be afraid to undertake any kind of art at all, how ever exalted or however common, but do it with distinction.” -Ben Shahn
Orchesis (Greek: dance)
Orenda (Iroquois: Creator)
Orexis (Greek: appetite)
Orff, Carl (German composer)
O is for Orgasm.
Orge (Greek: anger)
El orginales infiel a la traduccion. -Jorge Luis Borges
Ormazd (Zoroastrianism: God)
Orwell, George (Eric Arthur Blair, Indian writer) The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s infallibility with the power to learn from past mistakes.
Osborne, Ozzy (British rock singer, Black Sabbath)
Ottawa (Bytown [1829-1854]) 2 hours outside Montreal (“the New Athens” -Pierre Elliott Trudeau).
O’Toole, Peter (British actor)
Ounce (28 grammes, or a snowleopard)
Our country, right of wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right! -Carl Schurz
Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso (Roman poet)
Ovum: 0-14 days.
“Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry.
“The subject of it is War, and the Pity of War.
“The Poetry is in the pity.” -Wilfred Owen
Oureo (Greek: urinate)
65% of the human body is oxygen.
Ozone (O3; blue allotropic oxygen)
Ozone Layer (Ozonosphere; 15-30 kilometres up, absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the sun)
Ozu, Yasujiro (Japanese director)
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(pe) Hebrew peh: mouth; Greek rho; runic perth: initiation, uncertain, secret; Scottish beith-bhog; Roman numeral for 400; chemistry: phosphorus; proton; polarization; momentum; page; parity; pint; peso; pressure; pound; pence or penny.

Pajo, David (American rock musician, Slint)
Palace (Louisville band) see Oldham.
Palaion Penthos (Greek: ancient grief)
Pankrates Ganous (Greek: sovereign of liquid splendor)
Papaverine (C20H21NO4; white insoluble alkaloid, found in opium)
Paradies n. (German: paradise)

Paramitas (Hindu: 6 virtues of the bodhisattva; generosity (dana), moral conduct (sila), patience (ksanti), courage (virya), meditation (dhyana) & wisdom (prajna).
Parsis (Zoroastrian)
Pasiphae (wife of Minos, impregnated by Poseidon’s white bull)
Passenger Pigeon (e.1914)
Pathos (Greek: emotion, suffering)
Patron: Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery. -Samuel Johnson
Patton, Charlie (King of the Delta Blues, American musician)
There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin
Pearl (CaCO3; calcium carbonite made by molloscs)
Pearson, Lester Bowles (Mike, 4th Liberal prime minister)
Peitho (Greek: persuasion of a goddess)
Pelops (son of Tantalus, with a shoulder of ivory)
Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword. -Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton
Pepoiemenos (Greek: made-up)
Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. -Aelius Donatus
Perry, Matthew (Canadian actor)
Persephone (daughter of Zeus & Rhea, 2 faced queen of the dead)
Persians: “do not raise statues, or build temples and altars. On the contrary, they reproach those who do so for their folly, I think because they don’t believe as the Greeks do that the gods have human form. Their practice is to make sacrifices to Zeus from the top of the highest mountains, and they think of Zeus as the whole blue sky.” -Herodotus

Peterson, Oscar Emmanuel (Montreal jazz musician)

Petroleum (mineral oil; hydrocarbons & organics, distilled to petrol, parrafin, petrolatum, &c.)
Peyote (mescaline)
Phanes (the Protogonos, key to the mind)
Phenacetin (CH3CONHC6H4OC2H5, p-ethoxyactanilide; white crystalline)
Phenobarbitone (luminal, phenylethyl barbituric acid, C6H5.C2H5.C: -[NHCO]2:CO; white crystalline powder, sedative & hypnotic)
Philanthropia (Greek: moral satisfaction)
Phileo (Greek: love)
Philia (dia ton erota, Greek: friendship out of love that only men were supposed to be capable of) see Alcestis.
Philos (Greek: beloved, philosophus: loving wisdom)
Phlegein (Greek: to burn)
Phobos (Greek: terror)
Phoenix; Gemma, Joaquin (Leaf), Rain, River & Summer (American actors)
Phone (Greek: sound)
Phos (Greek: light)
Phosphorus (Greek: light bearer)
Phrazo (Greek: tell)
Phren (Greek: mind)
Phtheirein (Greek: seduce, destroy)
Phthonos (Greek: resentment)
Phusis (Greek: nature)
Pi (Π, circumference of a circle, 3.14159…)

Pilocarpine (C11H16N2O2; white crystalline alkaloid)
Pious (Latin: fraud)
Piperine (C17H19NO3; white crystalline alkaloid, found in pepper)
Pipto (Greek: fall) root of mod. English symptom.
Pizheu (Ojibway: lynx)
Plaid (Scottish: blanket)
Plath, Sylvia (American poet)
Plato (Greek philosopher)
DICTUM SAPIENTI SAT EST. -Plautus
PLO (abbr. Palastine Liberation Organization)Plummer, Christopher (Canadian actor)
Pluto (discovered in 1930, just past Neptune)
Poggio, Bracciolini (Italian scholar)
Poietike (Greek: poetry, art)
“Politics n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.” -Ambrose Bierce
Politike (Greek: civic life)
Pollack, Jackson (American painter)
Pop, Iggy (James Newall Osterberg, jr., American rock singer, The Stooges)
Poseidon (Greek sea god)
Tout es pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles. -Voltaire
“The greatest of all evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.” -George Bernard Shaw
This mournful truth is ev’rywhere confessed,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress’d. -Samuel Johnson
Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult. -Samuel Johnson
Poverty has strange bedfellows. -Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton
Powell, Bud (American jazz musician)
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -Lord Acton
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty. -Francis Bacon
Le Prejuge est une opinion sans jugement. -Voltaire
Price, Vincent (American actor)
“Principle and righteousness are substance and function, respectively.” -Ch’eng Hao
“75. Principle in the world is one. Although there are many roads in the world, the destination is the same, and although there are a hundred deliberations, the result is one. Although things involve many manifestations and events go through infinite variations, when they are united by the one, there cannot be any contradiction.” -Ch’eng I
“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.” -Ivan Illich
“In the production of things, there is sequence, and in their existence in physical forms, there is orderliness. Only when sequence is understood will moral principles be correct, and only when orderliness is understood will the principle of propriety operate.” -Ch’eng Hao
Prohairesis (Greek: choosing)
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. -Matthew 5:12
Psi Particle (J particle; discovered in 1974, meson with no charge & an “anomolously” long lifetime)
Psilobe semianceata (Latin: magic mushroom)
Psuche (Greek: soul)
Psychotecture: the impact of architecture on the brain.
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. -Henry Fielding
Pulsars (stars which emit regular pulses of radio frequency electromagnetic radiation)
Pushkin, Alexandr Sergeyevich (Russian poet)
Pygmy Hog (Assam, Indian; 1 of the WMES)
Python (monstrous serpent killed by Apollo)
Python, Monty (English comedians John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones & American Terry Gilliam)
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Hebrew qoph: eye of the needle (as in, It is easier for a gimel to go through the qoph, then a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. -Matthew 19:24); Arabic qaf; electric charge; blood flow; coulomb; quodques (Latin: each or ever); quantity; quater (qr.), queen, Desmond Llewelyn or John de Lancie.


Qaddish (Aramaic: holy)
Qt (abbr. quart[s])
Quaequaek (Ojibway: ever turning)

2:11. Confucius said, “A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.”
Quantum Theory: energy carrying photons make up electromagnetic radiation. “Gott wurfeld nicht.” -Albert Einstein
Quick (Biblical: living)
“Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.” -Ogden Nash
QUIDQUID AGAS, PRUDENTER AGAS, ET RESPICE FINEM. -Gesta Romanorum
Quot homines tot sententiae: suo’ quoique mos. -Terence
QUO WARRANTO (Latin: with what right)
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(ar) Arabic ra; Hebrew resh; Greek rho: head (ρ); runic raido: journey, riding, soul after death; Scottish ruis: the alder tree; (molar) gas constant (R); radical; radius; railroad; Regina; registered (trademark); resistance; Rex; right; river; road; rod; roentgen; Rydberg constant or rupee.
Racham (Hebrew: womb or woman)
Raga (Hindi: melody)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
Ragnerok (Norse: apocolyptic winter, eternal Fenris)
Raicleach (Irish: bitch)
Raimi, Sam (American director)
Rawls, John Bordley (American philosopher)
Ray, Fred Olen (American director)
Read All About It! (TVO series)
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. -Samuel Johnson
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law. -Sir Edward Coke
“The law can only refer to the standards of the reasonable man in order to determine whether any particular relation gives rise to a duty to take care of.” -Lord MacMillan
Reaumur, Rene Antoine Ferchault de (French physicist & natural scientist)
Rectification (chemistry: purification of liquid by distillation; mathematics: process for determining the length of a curve; physics: conversion of an alternating into a direct current)
Red Shirt: “character in a movie who’s going to buy the farm before the end of the credits (Star Trek).” -Ebionics
Laws of Light Refraction: “1. the incident ray, the refracted ray, and the normal to the surface of seperation of the two media at the point of incidence lie in the same plane. 2. Snell’s law. The ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is a constant for any pair of media.” (Willebrord Snell) -The Penguin Dictionary of Science
All reflex action is caused by the spinal cord.
Relationship: “The civilized conversationalist uses this word in public only to describe a seafaring vessel carrying members of his family.” -Fran Lebowitz
A little philosophy inclineth a man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. -Francis Bacon
I made a little difficulty on the score of difference of religion, but Sheykh Yoosaf, who came up, said he presumed I worshipped God and not stones, and that sincere prayers were good anywhere. -Lady Duff-Gordon
REM (abbr. rapid eye movement, Roentgen equivalent man or Micheal Stipe vehicle)
Renoir, Pierre Auguste (French painter)
And I will give him the morning star. -Revelation 2:28
Reviresco. -Maxwell clan motto
Rhea (Greek titan, mother of Zeus) see Demeter
L’embarras des richesses. -Abbe D’Allainval
Ride, Sally (1st American woman in space)
Riel, Louis (Prophet of the New World, Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, executed by John A MacDonald’s Canadian government)

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is no sufficient warrant. -John Stuart Mill
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife.
Ring out the Christ that is to be. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson
RNA (abbr. ribonucleic acid)
Roach, Max (American jazz musician)
In the wide awe and wisdom of the night
I saw the round world rolling on its way,
Beyond significance of depth or height,
Beyond the interchange of dark and day.
I marked the march to which is set no pause,
And that stupendous orbit, round whose rim
The great sphere sweeps, obedient unto laws
That utter the eternal thought of Him.
And in my still soul apprehended space,
Till, weighing laws which these but blindly heed,
At last I came before Him face to face–
And knew the Universe of no such span
As the august infinitude of Man.
Rogers, Ginger (Virginia McMath, American actress)
Si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi. -Saint Ambrose

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(es) Hebrew samekh: 15th letter, 60; seen: 21st letter, Greek sigma (Σ): tooth; China; or sade; Arabic sin or sad; runic sowelo: life force, love & poetic justice, wholeness, the sun; Irish sail: the willow tree; chemistry: sulphur; entropy (S); siemens; second; south; school; sea; small; son or strangeness.

Salam (Arabic: peace)
Salicylic acid (OH.C6H4COOH; white crystalline solid, derivative in aspirin)
Salieri, Antonio (Italian composer)
Salinger, Jerome David (American writer)
Sameem (Hebrew: drugs)
Samurai (Japanese: warrior)
SANCTUM REGNUM: to know, to dare, to will, and to keep silence.
Sand, George (Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Madame Dudevant; French writer) “…she does smoke all the time her little cigarette. This is now a common practice among ladies abroad, but I believe it started with her.” -Sarah Fuller
Sanders, Ed (American artist, The Fugs, author of The Family [Manson], and publisher of Fuck You magazine)
Satyagraha (Hindi: passive resistance) see Karamchand.
Sauvastika: an inverted swastika.
Scorsese, Martin (American director)
SCTV (abbr. Second City Television; Canadian & American comedians Joe Flaherty, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Catherine O’Hara, Dave Thomas, Andrea Martin, Martin Short, Eugene Levy & Harold Ramis)
Sea Horses (females plant their eggs into the male’s abdomen, which he watches, well after hatching)
Selene (Greek: the moon or Phoebe, goddess of the moon, daughter of Hyperion)
Selenology: the study of the moon.
Semele (mother of Dionysus)
Semen (Latin: seed)
Seratonin: neurotransmitter (LSD, E, anti-depressants)
Seumas (Scottish: James)
Shadayeem (Hebrew: women’s breasts)
Shaft (Richard Roundtree)
Shakespeare, William (English poet)
Shakes the Clown (Bobcat Goldthwait)
Shakhar (Hebrew: dawn, truth)
Shandling, Gary (American comedian)
Shatner, William (Canadian actor, Kirk) see Star Trek
Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow
The world should listen then–as I am listening now. -Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shih (Chinese: begining; fact; near; power; reality; ruler; to depend; to know)
Shin (Hebrew: tooth)
Shiva (Hindu: the Destroyer, Mahesvara, Sanskrit siva: auspicious)
SHF (abbr. super high frequency, 3000-30 000 megahertz)
SHM (abbr. simple harmonic motion)
Shu (Chinese: altruism; number; truth; statecraft)
SI (abbr. silicon or Systeme international d’unites)
Sienkiewicz, Henryk (Polish novelist)
Silpa (Hindi: art)


Sinister (Latin: left)
Sithean (Scottish: house of the fairies)

Smart, Elizabeth (Canadian poet)

Smog (Bill Callahan)

Sodium chloride (NaCl, salt)
The moving accident is not my trade;
To freeze the blood I have no ready arts:
‘Tis my delight, alone in summer shade,
To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts. -William Wordsworth
Sophia (Greek: wisdom)
Sophistes (Greek: philosopher)
Sophos (Greek: wise)
Sophrosyne (Greek: discretion)
The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
Specchio m. (Italian: mirror, synopsis, main, surface or line)
Specio (Latin: look)
Specialization: “is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the ‘expert’ is fooled into accepting his slavery by making him feel that in return he is a socially and culturally preferred, ergo, highly secure, lifelong position.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
Spect (Latin: at)
Specter, Phil (American producer, Wall of Sound)
Speedball: cocaine mixed with heroin.
All for love, and nothing for reward. -Edmund Spencer
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. -Herbert Spencer
Spermaceti (mostly cetyl palmitate, C15H31COOC16H33; taken from the heads of sperm whales for making soap & cosmetics)
Sporran (Scottish: purse that hangs from the front of a kilt’s belt)
Ssu (Chinese: thought; to die)
Stanton, Harry Dean (American actor)
Star Fish (5 pointed echinoderms)
Star Trek (Gene Roddenberry)
Starr, Ringo (Richard Starkey, English rock musician)
Stasis (Greek: revolution)
“That state is a state of Slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.” -Eric Gill
STD (abbr. subscriber trunk dialing or sexually transmitted disease)
Stellar’s Sea Cow (e.1768)
STP (abbr. scientifically treated petroleum, sanctae theologiae professor, standard temperature & pressure or Stone Temple Pilots)
Strychnine (C21H22N2O2, white crystalline alkaloid found in the seeds of Strychnos nux vomica)
Suckling, Sir John (English writer)
Sugar (cane): (Sucrose, saccharose; disaccharide)
Sumpathes (Greek: sharing in emotion)
Sumpotes (Greek: fellow-drinker) root of mod. English symposium.
Sunday (day of the sun)
Sunthesis (Greek: construction)
Superbia (Latin: pride)
Superman (Jerry Seigel & Joe Shuster; Christopher Reeves)
Super Powers: the USA (& formerly the USSR)
SU3 (unitary symmetry)

“Sweater: a garment worn by a child when his mother feels chilly.” -Alma Denny
Synapse: the connection between 2 neurons.
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(te) A drink with jam and bread; Arabic ta; Hebrew tet: 9; Greek tau: 22nd letter, 400, mark; runic tewaz: warrior, victory, Tiw; Irish teine; thermodynamic temperature; tritium; tesla; perfectly; surface tension; tablespoon; tempo; tenor; territory; time; tons; top or troy.
Tabobandung (Ojibway: he who sees far)
Tachyons (theoretical particles that travel faster than the speed of light)

Talia (sleeping beauty)

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. -Samuel Johnson
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. -Edmund Burke
Taxation and representation are inseperable… whatever is a man’s own, is absolutely his own; no man hath the right to take it from him without his consent either expressed by himself or representative. -Charles Pratt, Lord Camden
Teagarden, Jack (American jazz trombonist)
Telos (Greek: end)
10/4 (radio: yes, I understand; also copy, roger & affirmative)
Till the war-drum throbb’d no longer, and the battle-flags were furl’d
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Terpsichore (Greek muse of dance)
Terrorism (from the Latin terreo: frighten; any government is guilty if they use weapons against their own or foreign people, or if they enforce laws with harsh penalties.)
Testosterone (C19H28O2, white crystalline male sex hormone)
T is for Thalia (Greek muse of comedy)
Tha mo chlann air a bhi am murdt (Scottish: my children are being murdered)
Theseus (prince of Troy, son of Poseidon, abductor of Helen, Ariadne, Antiope, &c.)
Thewlis, David (British actor)
They Shall Not Pass!“They shall not pass!” From Verdun’s walls,O’er shatterer France the cry went forth;Whilst millions rushed to fill the breach,And proved their nation’s fighting worth.Red Flanders field the record keepsOf that great debt our manhood paid,That we, within the land they saved,Might bid for Justice — unafraid.“They shall not pass!” The scene has changed,But strife is rampant here, as then;And the same purpose, firmly held,Spurs on the soldier-citizen.We fight at home the self-same wrong,Unvarnished by the pomp of war;God grant that we may fight as wellAs they won our cause before! -Jno. Cadden, Western Labor News, 1919.
“7. Of course study should not be without thought. But the way to think should emphasize reflection on things at hand, and should be done in a free, easy, and leisurely manner. With reflection on things at hand, the self will not be at a loss, and with free and leisurely thinking one will not be impeded by material things.” -Lu Hsiang-shan
Thomerson, Tim (American actor)
Thompson, Hunter S. (American gonzo reporter)
Thompson, Sir John Sparrow David (4th prime minister of Canada)
Thompson, Margaret Anne Wilson (Canadian geneticist)
Thompson, Robert Norman (American teacher & leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada)
Thompson, Thomas Phillips (Jimuel Briggs, English socialist writer)
Thomson, Thomas John (Canadian painter, member of the Group of Seven)
Thoreau, Henry David (American poet)
Thoth (Egyptian moon god)
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into a bottle: are they not in thy book? -Psalm 56:8
Thursday (Thor’s day)
Thyestes (king of Mycenae, son of Pelops)

The Tide: “Movement of the seas caused by the attraction exerted upon the seas by the Moon, and to a lesser extent by the Sun. At full and new moon the tidal force of the Sun is added to that of the Moon, causing high spring tides; while at half-moons the forces are opposed, causing low neap tides.” -The Penguin Dictionary of Science

Time (Greek: honour, acclaim)
Time will tell.
Ting: “The symbolism of the ko (change) hexagram means to cast away the old and the ting (caldron, symbolizing reform) hexagram means to take on the new.” -Confucius
T’i-jen (Chinese: realization through personal experience)
T’i-yung (Chinese: substance & function)
Toads walk, frogs hop.
Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. -Horace
Tolerance: qu’est-ce que la tolerance? C’est l’apanage de l’humanite. Nous sommes tous petris de faiblesses et d’erreurs; pardonnons-nous reciproquement nos sottises, c’est la premiere loi de la nature. -Voltaire
Tortoise (Chicago band)
TMV (abbr. tabacco mosaic virus)
TNT (abbr. trinitrotoluene)
Tragikos (Greek: tragedy, arousing ‘pity and terror [and] the catharsis of such emotions.’ -Aristotle)


Triubhas (Scottish: tartan trousers worn by gentlemen, English trews)
Troubadours (“poets of Spain, Italy, and S. France, who flourished from XII. to XIV. cent’s. The ranks of this order of poets were chiefly recruited from the noble classes, and even kings turned T. (e.g.) Richard Coeur-de-Lion, and Alftonso II. of Aragon, but there was also a professional class of lower caste. The T. poet was inspired by the sentiments of chivalry and love, and in many ways had a refining influence on medieval society. T’s of the most part led a wandering life, passing from country to country and from court to court. Sometimes they became attached as retainers to a house. In the XII. cent. there were no T. schools of poetry, but the poets became efficient in the art by attaching themselves to some skilled minstrel. The latter half of the XIII. is the golden era of Provencal lyric. Among famous T’s of this period may be mentioned Arnault de Maruelh, Folquet, bishop of Marseilles, Arnault Daniel, and Giraut de Bornelh. In the XIII. cent may be mentioned Giuraut Riquier, the ‘last of theT’s'” -World’s Popular Encyclopedia
Trudeau, Pierre Elliot (5th Liberal prime minister)
Trust (Hal Hartley)
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. -John 8:32
He who begins by loving Christianity better than the Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tsadeek (Hebrew: righteous man)
Tsadeek hador (Hebrew: saint of generation)
Tsadeket (Hebrew: righteous woman)
Tsai, Chang (Chinese philosopher, Confusianist)
“Heaven is my father and Earth is my mother, and even a small creature as I finds an intimate place in their midst.
“Therefore that which fills the universe I regard as my body and that which directs the universe I consider as my nature.
“All people are my brothers and sisters, and all things are my companions.”
Tuche (Greek: chance)
Tucker, Maureen (American rock musician, The Velvet Underground)
Tuesday (Tiw’s day, Teutonic war god; as in the French Mardi: day of mars)
T’ung (Chinese: penetration; same; tree)
Turner, John (6th Liberal prime minister)
Turturro, John (American actor)
Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer)

The Twelfth Hour: The works of the light eternal are fulfilled by fire. -Appollonius of Tyana, Nuctemeron
12 1) One-Adam-Twelve 2) ACAB [1312: All Cops Are Bastards] 3) police radio code “10-12” 4) “It’s 12 Districts in the greater city of Atlanta. There are always 12 officers on patrol at all times in each district and each officer works 12 hour shifts! That why ATL says “12” when referring to police.” -Urban Dictionary 5) Can also refer to the DEA or narcotics officers.
Tzu (Chinese: honorific; to indulge; tree)
Tzu, Lao (Chinese philosopher)
“How do I know that this should be so? Through this:
“The poorer the people will be.
“The more sharp weapons the people have,
“The more troubled the state will be.
“The more cunning and skill man possesses,
“The more vicious things will appear.
“The more laws and orders are made prominent,
“The more thieves and robbers there will be.”
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(yu) Greek upsilon; runic uruz: strength, sacrificial animal, the aurochs; Scottish ur: the yew-tree; chemistry: uranium; thermodynamic (internal) energy (U); unit; upper class; union or university.
UHF (abbr. ultra-high frequencies, 300-3000 megahertz)
Uisce (Irish: water)
Uqbah (Arabic god of progeny)
“…for did not wise Ulysses go to sleep as soon as he was within sight of his own country which he had hunted no less than ten years? And does not the Irishman, when at half the earth’s diameter from his mistress, cry out, Ah! my dear Sheelah o’Sheelah, were I once within forty miles of those pretty eyes, I would never desire to be nearer them in all my life? So why should not I, after fretting to come home ever since we came hither, though I never said so–why should not I, now the day is fixed–forget and think no more on’t? That says Mr. Johnson, is a bad place of which the best good thing is bad weather–yet that is true of Brighthelmstone this Autumn; and last week we had some storms that were very sublime. To see the ship how she fought, as the clown says, and the sea how he flap-dragoned it, was a fine a sight to us safely posted observers. Suave mari magno, etc.; and what are Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Desmoulines compared to the winds and the waves? There are horn lanthorns (you remember) and paper lanthorns, but what are they when opposed to the sun and the moon? Winter is coming apace, that’s certain; and it will be three months at least that we shall live without the sight of either leaf or blossom; we will try good fires and good humour, and make ourselves all the amend we can. I have lost more than Spring and Summer–I have lost what made my happiness in all seasons of the year; but the black dog shall not make prey of both my master and myself.–Much is gone– -Hester Lynch (Thrale) Piozzi
UN (abbr. United Nations; New York City, an assembly of the world’s countries, funded mainly by the U.S.)
“An Englishman thinks he is being moral when he is only uncomfortable.” -George Bernard Shaw
“One should never condemn what one cannot understand.” -Han Suyin
“The permanent emotional state such as love is embedded in the hearts of spectators and is manifested by these causes, &c., and apprehended in their universalized aspect. Through the strength of the same universalization, this permanent emotional state, though appearing only in a particular cognizer, is yet apprehended as if by a cognizer who has awakend into an unbounded state, because, for the time being, his limited cognizership drops and he becomes rid of the touch of any other object of cognition. In this unlimited state, on account of the universalation enabling one to be in unison with all hearts, the permanent emotional mood, though, like one’s Self, not really different, is yet brought within the range of apprehension. This appprehension or realization is essentially of the form of a relish and strictly confined to the duration of the evoking artistic conditions, causes, &c.; its relish is unitary like that of a composite drink in which the ingredients do not taste seperately; this unique relish is such that it seems to quiver in front of one, it seems to throw everything else into oblivion, it seems to make one experience the ineffable beautitude of the Supreme Being; it produces a supramundane delectation; such is the nature of the experience of aesthetic emotion, love and the like.
“The means of its cognition are not indeterminate, because the knowledge of causes, &c., is essential to it; nor is it determinate, for it is relished as a supramundane bliss, certified by one’s own Self-experience. Being of neither form or of both forms, it shows only, as already stated, its non-worldly character, and no contradiction whatsoever.” -Kauyaprakasa, Mammata
Uranus (son of Phanes, father of Kronos; between saturn & neptune, discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781)
The Urging Song: “There are no problems, no sorrows or errors; they join in the urging song that everything sings. This is the state of the angels, that spend their hours only singing the praises of the Lord. Just to lie savouring is enough life. Is enough.” -Elizabeth Smart
Meine weil speak weil and doe weil. -Urquhart clan motto
For he that is not against us is on our part. -Mark 9:40
Here’s tae us; wha’s like us?
Gey few, and they’re a a’deid. -Scottish toast
U.S. (abbr. United States, the government of America)
“American aggressiveness, however it may be masked in pious rhetoric, is a dominant force in world affairs and must be analyzed in terms of its causes and motives. There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism. To the extent that “expert knowledge” is applied to world affairs, it is necessary–to question its quality and the goal that is serves. These facts seen to obvious to require extended discussion.” -Noam Chomsky, 1966“The Indians were the first “aggressors” who had to be faced in our celebration of freedom, the definition of “aggressor” being “that we have attacked them,” to be followed by the Mexican, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Nicaraguans and many others. It may be added that U.S. history is hardly unique in this respect, down to the present day.”“At one point, the attack was justified by the need to prevent arms flow to El Salvador. Bu 1983, no significant arms flow having been detected despite massive efforts, the aim was to “bring the Sandinistas to the baraining table” and force them to hold elections. …A few months later, elections had been held, the Sandinistas had accepted the Contadora principles, causing the administration to discover suddenly that they were a sham and a fraud, and they were continuing to request negotiations that the U.S. refuses. So the argument shifted again: we read in the new columns that “the Reagan Administration has demanded that Nicaragua demiliterize, reduce its ties with the Soviet Union and Cuba and change its form of government to a pluralistic democracy.”” -Noam Chomsky (Joel Brinkley, New York Times, June 5, 1985)“… the World Court rejected the American contention that it had no jurisdiction with regard to the Nicaraguan complaint concerning U.S. aggression against Nicaragua.”“In 1907, a Central American Court of Justice was established at the initiative of Washington to adjudicate conflicts among the states of the region. “Within nine years,” LaFeber observes, “the institution was hollow because twice–in 1912 and 1916–the United States refused to recognized Court decisions that went against its interests in Nicaragua.”“In earlier years, we were defending ourselves against Mexican “agression” (initiated well inside Mexican territory); we had to take California to protect ourselves from a possible British threat to do so. The Indians were also defensive; the Indians were attacking us from their British and Spanish sanctuaries, so we were compelled to take Florida and the West, with consequences for the native population that are, or should be, well known.”“In the first third of this century, we sent military forces to Cuba, Panama, Mexico, and Honduras and occupied Haiti for nineteen years [later the “Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Greneda”].”“The historical record is one of the most shameful stories in modern history and naturally is very little known here, though in a free society it would be well understood and taught in elementary school in all its sordid and gruesome detail.”“…the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was found to be an inappropriate forum for judging Nicaragua’s charges against Washington. The United States rejected ICJ jurisdiction, and when the court condemned the U.S. for the “unlawful use of force,” ordering Washington to cease its international terrorism, violation of treaties, and illegal economic warfare, and to pay substantial reparations, the Democratic-controlled Congress reacted by instantly escalating the crimes while the Court was roundly denounced on all sides as a “hostile forum” that had discredited itself by rendering a decision against the United States.. The Court judgement itself was scarcely reported, including the words just quoted and the explicit ruling that the U.S. aid to the contras is “military” and not “humanitarian.” Along with U.S. direction of terrorist forces, the aid continued until the United States imposed its will, always called “humanitarian aid.” Public history keeps to the same conventions.” -Noam Chomsky (1986)
Uta (Shamash, Sumerian sun god of justice)
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(ve) Hebrew vav; Roman numeral for 5; chemistry: vanadium; velocity; volt; volume; verb; verse; version; versus; victory; village; violin; viscount or voice.
Vama (Sanskrit: udder or woman)
Van, Billy (Canadian actor, The Hilarious House of Frightenstein)
Van Gogh, Vincent (Dutch painter) To produce good work, one must eat well, be well housed, have one’s fling from time to time, smoke one’s pipe and drink one’s coffee in peace.

Vanillin (CH3O[OH]C6H3CHO, white crystalline from vanilla beans synthesized from lignin)
Van Rijn, Rembrandt (Dutch painter)
Nay, I mean the tongue; variety of courtship:
What cannot a neat knave with a smooth tale
Make a woman believe? -John Webster
“This being the case, although the various books differ in language and the many schools differ in theory, if we can find out where they converge, how can different expressions delude us?” -Seng-chao
Varium et mutabile semper Femina. -Virgil
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. -Thorstein Veblen
Varley, Frederick Horsman (English painter, member of The Group of Seven)
Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch
At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;
Keep clean, bear fruit, earn life and watch,
Till the white winged reapers come.
Velazquez, Diego Rodriquez de Silva (Spanish painter)
“The old concept of the venal purveyor of drugs waiting outside the school yard to entice some unsuspecting youngster into the ravages of drug abuse is today (and has been for quite some time) a totally anachronistic concept.” -Donald B. Louria

Venus (Roman goddess of love, love, astronomy: 2nd planet from sun)
VERBUM CARO FACTUM EST. (Latin: the word made flesh)
Verlaine, Tom (Miller, American rock musician, Television)
Vermeer, Jan (Dutch painter)
Vesalius, Andreas (Belgian founder of anatomic science)
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. -Exodus 22:21
VHF (abbr. very high frequencies, 30-300 megahertz)

The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’, with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety. Lady–ought to get a good whipping. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. God created men and women differently–then let them remain each in their own position. -Victoria R
“The first phase of the war, the French war, probably left about half a million dead. From 1954 to 1965, we succeeded in killing maybe another 160,000 to 170, 000 South Vietnamese, mostly peasants. The war, from 1965 to 1975, left a death toll of maybe in the neighborhood of 3 million. There were also perhaps a million dead in Cambodia and Laos. So altogether about 4 to 5 million people were killed, which is a respectable achievement when you’re trying to prevent any successful social and economic development.” -Noam Chomsky
Vimy Ridge “captured by the French in May 1915; resisted the assaults of Froch’s armies in June and Sept 1915. Subsequently this part of the front was take over by the British, who were attacked by the Germans, the 25th and 47th Divisions losing some ground at the N. part pf the ridge near Souchez, May 26, 1916, which remained a bastion of the Ger. front. It was brilliantly stormed by the Canadians in the Arras battles, April 9-10, 1917, after a heavy bombardment lasting three weeks. The troops had been specially trained for the assault, and they went forward at a bound under cover of a skillful barrage. The Ger. entrenchments had been blown to pieces, but there was stubborn resistance at a few points, notably Hill 145 and the ‘Pimple’ at the W. end, which were used as the pivot of the Ger. counter-thrust. Over 4, 000 prisoners were taken by the Canadian Corps, who pressed down the slopes to the village of Vimy and the outskirts of Lens. The assault was one of the most complete successes of the war. Near the crest of the ridge, now planted with maples, stand two monuments to Canadian heroism. Sir Julian Byng, in command of the Canadian Corps, adopted the title Lord Byng of Vimy, 1919.” -World’s Popular Encyclopedia

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but on probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. -American Bill of Rights
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, Roman poet)
‘Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble:
Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern. -John Fletcher
Vishnu (Hindu: the Preserver, Sanskrit visnu)
Vivaldi, Antonio (Italian composer)
Viva Voce (Middle Latin: with the living voice, orally–as in Homer & the Hebrew Bible were passed down viva voce)
VLF (abbr. very low frequencies, below 30 kilohertz)
Voir dire (French: truth said)
Die breite Masse eines Volkes… einer grossen Luge leichter zum Opfer als einer kleinen. -Adolf Hitler
Volta, Alessandro (Italian inventor of the battery)
Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet, French writer)
Volumen (Latin: scroll)
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(dubelyoo) Arabic waw; runic wunjo: joy; tungsten (wolfram); watt; west; tryptophan; week; weight; width; with or work.
Wahpahki (Cree: tomorrow)
Wahpiskiwiyahs (Cree: white man)
Waits, Tom (American jazz musician)
Wakan Tanka (Lakota Sioux: Creator)
Walford, Britt (American rock musician; Slint, Palace)
Walpole, Horace 4th Earl of Oxford (British writer)
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. -Oscar Wilde
Warhol, Andy (Andrew von, American artist)


Watson Greg (Canadian rock musician, Orange Alabaster Mushroom, Mississippi Grover)
Waubagone (Ojibway: flower)
Waubun-anung (Ojibway: morning star)
Waussayauh-bindumiwin (Ojibway: a complete vision in quest or vigil)
“Weapons are instruments of evil, not the instruments of a good ruler.
“When he uses them unavoidably, he regards calm restraint as the best principle.
“Even when he is victorious, he does not regard it as praise worthy,
“For to praise victory is to delight in the slaughter of men.” -Lao Tzu
Wednesday (Wodin’s day)
Wei (Chinese: act, activity; become; artifice; powerful; to say)
Weill, Kurt (German composer)
Welles, Orson (American director)
Wells, Herbert George (English writer)
Wen (Chinese: culture; ornament; literature; to ask)
Wenders, Wim (German director)
Weymouth, Tina (American musician, Talking Heads)
Who, Cowboy (Jeff Green, CJOH series)
WHO (abbr. World Health Organization, a division of the UN) “…if WHO activities relating to drugs failed to reinforce proven drug-control approaches, funds for the relevant programs should be curtailed.” -Neil Boyer, American representative to the WHO
Who, Doctor (William Hartnell, [Peter Cushing], Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennent, Matt Smith, John Hurt, Peter Capaldi & Jodie Whittaker, &c)

Wilde, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills (Irish poet) “The last gentleman in Europe.” -Ada Leverson
Williams, Hank; I, II & III (American country musicians)
Williams, Robin (American comedian)
Wilson, Brian (American rock musician)

But wisdom is justified of all her children. -Luke 7:35
Wisdom is perspective.
Wit: “The clue to the reason for this may lie in a meaning of wit which is assigned to the Restoration years: ‘the seat of consciousness or thought, the mind’. Dryden, living in this critical climate, defined wit as ‘sharpness of conceit’. His emphasis is on self-consciouness on the part of both the poet and the audience. It is no accident, then, that at this time ‘the wits’ emerged–a group of gentlemen, conscious of their nimble minds and cultural awareness. Apart from self-consciousness itself, there are several other characteristics of Restoration and eighteenth-century wit that come from such an ingroup attitude. Comparison is stressed. The wit demands to be used in a context of accepted ideas and reading, though the opposite side of this is also valued, namely unexpected justness. Cleverness and quickness are parts of it, too, and the idea of the marshalled disposition of material. Lastly, ideas are important: the most famous characterization of wit, echoed by later critics and poets, is that of the most influential philosopher of the age, John Locke, who defines it as ‘the Assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety.’” -Angus Ross
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of council for his defense. -American Bill of Rights
Wollstonecraft, Mary (English writer, mother of Mary Shelley, A Vindication of the Rights of Women)

“The effects of woman’s betrayal are more subtle and less immediate perhaps, but equally devastating. Helen provokes a war that wipes out the entire race of heroes, ushering in a completely new age, when the heroes will merely be remembered in verse. And as a civilizing gesture, a woman’s betrayal is no less effective than man’s monster slaying. The monster is an enemy beaten in a duel; in her betrayal, the traitor suppresses her own roots, detaching her life from its natural context. Ariadne is the ruin of Crete, where she was born; Antiope dies fighting the Amazons, her own subjects who were faithfully rallying at her aid; Helen leads the heroes she has loved to their down fall; Medea forsakes the country of sorcery to arrive, at the end of her adventures, in the country of law, Athens; Antigone betrays the law of her city to make a gesture of mercy toward a dead man who does not belong to that city. Like a spiral, woman’s betrayal twists around on itself, forever regecting that which is given. It is not the negation that comes into play in the frontal and mortal collision of forces but the negation that amounts to a gradual breaking away from ourselves, opposition to ourselves, effacement of ourselves, in a game that may exalt or destroy and which generally both exalts and destroys.
“The slaying of monsters and woman’s betrayal are two ways in which negation can operate. The first clears a space, leaves an evocative vacuum where before there was a clutter, thick with heads and tentacles, a scaly arabesque. Woman’s betrayal does not alter the elements in space but rearranges them. The influence of certain peices on the chessboard is inverted. White attacks white. Black attacks black. The effect is confusing, above all disturbing. For the first time roles have been reversed. And it is always a woman who reverses them. There’s an obstinacy about the hero that obliges him to keep on and on, following just one path and no other. Hence his need to be complemented, his need of another form of negation. The woman with her betrayal completes the hero’s work: she brings it to its conclusion and winds up the story. This is done in agreement with the hero. It is part of the hero’s civilizing work to suppress himself, because the hero is monstrous. Immediatly after the monsters, die the heroes.”-Roberto Calasso

“You concentrate on something which was an obsession, and what you would have put into your obsession with the physical act you put into your work. Because one of the terrible things about so-called love, certainly for an artist, I think, is the destruction.” -Francis Bacon
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very work’s sake. -John 14:11
WQED (Pittsburg tv station; employed Fred Rogers & Ernie Coombs before they moved to the CBC)
Worldly wealth he cared not for, desiring only to make both ends meet. -Thomas Fuller
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. -Samuel Johnson
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(eks) Greek chi; Roman numeral for 10; runic gebo: generosity; female chromosome; algebra: the unknown; rating: explicit content; a marker; Saint Andrew’s Cross; reactance; xanthosine; halogen atom; a kiss; Christ; or the owl from Mister Roger’s Neighborhood.
X-files (Chris Charter)
X from Outer Space (Kazui Nihonmatzu)

X (the Man With the X-ray Eyes; Ray Milland, Dave Thomas)
X, Mister (Dean Motter, bald guy with round glasses) see Psychotecture.
X, Planet (Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla)
X, Professor (bald guy with round glasses, Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy)
X-rays (Rontgen rays, electromagnetic radiation like light, but much shorter wavelengths)
Xristos (Greek: anointed) Messiah of New Testament.
X–The Unknown (Leslie Norman)
Xuein (Greek: scrape)
Xulon (Greek: wood)
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(wi) Hebrew yod: 10th letter, 10; Arabic ya; idodine; male chromosome; chemistry: yttrium; admittance; hypercharge; ordinate; year; yen or an algebraic variable.
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. -Exodus 23:20
Perfection of the life, or of the work.

Yoda (Frank Oz) see Star Wars.
Yoga (Sanskrit: union)
Yogurt: fermented bacteria and milk.
Yom (Hebrew: day, Yom Kippur: Day of Atonement)
12:17. Chi K’ang Tzu asked Confucius about government. Confucius replied, “To govern is to rectify. If you lead the people by being rectified yourself, who will dare not be rectified?”
And it shall turn to you for a testimony. -Luke 21:13
Young, Neil Percival (Canadian folk musician)
Fast ruin’d Ilion Helen lives,
Alcestis rises from the shades;
Verse calls them forth; ‘tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.-Walter Savage Landor
Yuan (Chinese: first, origination; source)
Yung (Chinese: mean, ordinary, universal; use)
“In the study of prior existence sincerity is basic. Perfect sincerity can penetrate all spirits. Without sincerity, the Way cannot be attained.
“Our nature comes from Heaven, but learning lies with man. Our nature develops from within, while learning enters into us from without. ‘It is due to our nature that enlightenment results from sincerity,’ but it is due to learning that sincerity results from intelligence.
“The learning of a superior man aims precisely at enriching his personality. The rest, such as governing people and handling things, is all secondary.
“Without sincerity, one cannot investigate principle to the utmost.
“Sincerity is the controlling factor in one’s nature. It is beyond space and time.”-Shao Yung
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(zed) Greek zeta: 7; Aramaic zayeen: weapon; Hebrew: penis, 7th letter, 7; Arabic zay or za; runic algiz: protection, the elk, sedge or eel grass; zepto, benzyloxycarbonyl; atomic number; carbobenzoxy; impedance; zero; zone or an algebraic variable.
Zakat (Arabic: income devoted to the poor in Muslim religion)
Zan (Persian: woman)
Zapata, Emiliano (Mexican revolutionary)

Zarathustra (Persian founder of Zoroastrianism, Greek Zoroaster)
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. -Titus 2:14
Z is for Zebra.
Zeitgeist (German: time spirit)
Zenger, John Peter (German journalist)
Zeno, of Citium & of Elea (Greek philosophers)
Zephuros (Greek god of the west wind)
ZETA (abbr. zero energy thermonuclear apparatus)
Zeus (Greek god of thunder, son of Kronos)
Zeuxis (Greek painter)
Zinc Carbonate (Calamine, ZnCO3; white crystalline)
Zoon (Greek: animal)
Zophos (Greek: darkness, the west)
Zwitterion (ion with both positive & negative charge)
Zygote (fertilized ovum)