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Archimedes (290 BC–212 BC) – a famous ancient Greek mathematician and inventor.
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Comte – Auguste Comte (1798–1857), a French philosopher, the founder of sociology as a science and the philosophy of positivism.
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Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) – an English writer and poet.
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Schlafen Sie wohl. = Have a good sleep. (
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Sylvester II (945–1003) – the head of the Roman Catholic church of France who later became Pope.
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Roger Bacon (1220–1292) – a great English philosopher and scientist of the 13th century.
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Thomas Aquinas (1224–1274) – an Italian theologian and philosopher, canonized in July, 1323.
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Huyghens – Christian Huyghens (1629–1695), a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist.
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Kerguellen’s Land – Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, discovered by de Kerguéllen-Trémarec and later explored by Captain James Cook.
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Liebchen = sweetheart. (
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Vorwärts! = Forward! (
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Nicht wahr? = Isn’t it? (
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Um Gottes Willen = for God’s sake. (
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Madison Square – a square in central New York.
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aquamarine (colour) – blue or green-blue.
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Carrara – a city in Tuscany region in north-central Italy, famous for the world’s best marble of the same name.
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Maupassant – Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893), a French writer and novelist who is considered the best French short-story writer.
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Marion Crawford – Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909), an American novelist, poet and journalist.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) – an American poet and journalist.
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Sic transit gloria urbis. – So passes the glory of the town. (
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Caliphs – here: rulers;
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Oratama – a Spanish town invented by the author.
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alcalde – the head (both administrative and judicial) of a town or village in Spain.
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the Cordilleras – also called the Andes, a mountain system of South America.
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Roosevelt – Theodor Roosevelt (1858–1919), president of the United States in 1901–1909; he got the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906.
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Grover Cleveland (1837–1908) – an honest and principled politician, president of the USA in 1885–1889 and 1893–1897.
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Adam – a biblical figure, the first man on Earth created by God ‘in His own image’ on the sixth day of Creation.
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Talleyrand (1754–1858) – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, a French statesman and diplomat during the French Revolution, under Napoleon, and later at the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy.
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Mrs. De Pompadour – Marquise de Pompadour (1721–1764), an influential figure at the court of Louis XV of France and since 1745 his mistress.
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Loeb – Jacques Loeb (1859–1924), a famous American biologist.
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Long Island Sound – the arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between the New York shore and Long Island.
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Oyster Bay – a town in the state of New York on central Long Island, founded in 1653–1660.
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Nebuchadnezzars – here: barbarians, savages;
