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(French: "talking faience"), in French pottery, popular utilitarian 18th-century earthenware, principally plates, jugs, and bowls, that had inscriptions as part of its decoration. The city of Nevers ...
Yale, Elihu
English merchant, official of the East India Company, and benefactor of Yale University. Although born in Massachusetts, Yale was taken to England by his family at the age of three, and he never ...
holiday
(from "holy day"), originally, a day of dedication to religious observance; in modern times, a day of either religious or secular commemoration. Many holidays of the major world religions tend to ...
Father's Day
in the United States, holiday (third Sunday in June) to honour fathers. Credit for originating the holiday is generally given to Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, whose father, a Civil War ...
Christmas
Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus. The English term Christmas ("mass on Christ's day") is of fairly recent origin. The earlier term Yule may have derived from the Germanic jol or the ...
church year
The word Christmas is derived from the Old English Cristes maesse, "Christ's Mass." There is no certain tradition of the date of Christ's birth. Christian chronographers of the 3rd century believed ...
Statius
one of the principal Roman epic and lyric poets of the Silver Age of Latin literature (AD 18-133). His occasional poems, collected under the title Silvae ("Forests"), apart from their literary merit, ...
arts, East Asian
The two major court festivals at which performances were held during the Koryo period (935-1392) were Buddha's birthday, or the Feast of Lanterns, in the second lunar month, and the midwinter ...
Hermes
Greek god, son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia; often identified with the Roman Mercury and with Casmilus or Cadmilus, one of the Cabeiri. His name is probably derived from herma (see herm), the Greek ...
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
The year 1817 saw the marriage of Goethe's son, as well as Goethe's resignation from the post of director of the Weimar theatre and his final surrender of the Frankfurt citizenship that he still ...
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