Word: 3rd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle of Flodden Field, which was fought within sight of the Homes' front lawn at Coldstream, Archibald, 5th Earl of Douglas, otherwise known as Bell-the-Cat, and the 3rd Lord Home both fought the Sassenach. Home tried to rally his followers against the English longbowmen. "A Home! A Home!" he cried. But his men-or so legend has it-misunderstood his order and trotted off home. It was then that the family decided to avert future disasters by pronouncing the name "Hume...
Hippolytus, by legend a Roman legionary converted to Christianity, was sentenced to be torn apart by wild horses during the 3rd century. But the Flemish artist painted his martyrdom as a contemporary event and in the dress of the day the grisly event took on a more direct meaning. Only one other known altarpiece is devoted to the same subject-the one by Dieric Bouts and Hugo van der Goes that hangs in the Museum of the Church of the Holy Saviour in Bruges...
Corporal/Petty Officer 3rd Class...
...owes its very existence, says Professor André Bataille, director of the institute, to the fact that during the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. wood was too expensive to be used in mummy cases for average Egyptians. As a result, funeral directors enclosed corpses in waste papyrus manuscripts coated with plaster and molded to a shape vaguely reminiscent of a human body...
...Guadarrama mountain range 31 miles from Madrid, El Escorial casts such a gloomy aspect that the Romantic Poet Théophile Gautier called it the "granite debauch of Spain's Tiberius." Even its floor plan reflects a grim occasion. The monastery is named in honor of a humble 3rd century deacon who was burned alive on a gridiron by his Roman torturers. San Lorenzo, it is said, calmly instructed the Romans: "This side's done. You can turn me over now." His coolness under trial won him a lasting place in Spanish devotion...