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d – d = damned
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Hermes — in Greek mythology
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Fire Island – one of the outer barrier islands parallel to Long Island, New York
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there’s nobody on board as can keep this ’ere port shut at night. You can try it yourself, sir. I ain’t a-going to stop hany longer on board o’ this vessel, sir; I ain’t, indeed. –
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a hinch – an inch
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’arf – half
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horful – horrible
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hinchantin’ – enchanting
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pick-me-up — an alcoholic drink for the nerves
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Welsh rare-bits –
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Queen Anne house — the English Baroque architectural style belonging to the time of Queen Anne (reigned 1702–1714)
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Elizabethan dwelling-house — architecture of early Renaissance
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auto-da-fé — from Portuguese ‘act of faith,’ a public execution in the times of Inquisition.
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Ring of Pope Borgia – Pope Alexander VI, born Roderic de Borja was one of the most controversial Renaissance popes. Rumored to be in possession of a hollow ring used to poison the drinks and meals of the Borgia enemies.
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Popish Plot (1678) – a fabricated plot, according to which Jesuits were planning the assassination of King Charles II in order to bring his Roman Catholic brother, the Duke of York (afterward King James II), to the throne.
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Fellow — a person who takes a post-graduate course at a university
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Polyaenus — 2nd century Macedonian author, known for his book ‘Stratagems in War’
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Sortes Biblicae – a method of fortune-telling, which consisted in using literature in a random way in search for instructions.
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Pantechnicon – a kind of van for moving the furniture.
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Dahlenberg’s Suecia antiqua et moderna – a large collection of engravings gathered by Erik Dahlbergh in the mid-17th century
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De la Gardie – a Swedish noble family of French origin
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Liber nigrae peregrinationis — black Pilgrimage
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potter’s field – cemetery for poor people and beggars (from the Bible: a piece of land bought with Judah’s money)
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malforming disease – a defect in the body due to abnormal before-birth development
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afrite from the halls of Eblis – Ifrit, a supernatural creature in Arabic and Islamic folklore;
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Ptolemaism – demonstration of Ptolemy, 2nd century geographer and astronomer, that the earth is the fixed center of the universe around which the sun and the other planets revolve
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Sabbatarianism – the practice in Judaism and some Christian sects of keeping the seventh day holy
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Tartarus – in Greek mythology, a dungeon of torment and suffering for the sinful
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simianism – likeness to monkeys or apes
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Baudelaire – Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet, the author of the famous ‘Flowers of Evil.’
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Elagabalus (Heliogabalus) – Roman Emperor from 218 to 222, became emperor being fourteen years old; his reign is remembered for sexual scandal and religious controversy.
