Word: melampus
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...only to look at those hands: enormously large and elongated, and so full of flexion folds as to be a palmist's nirvana. Tricassus Mantuanus, Melampus of Alexandria, John de Indagine - those late-medieval heavies of palmistry would have gone bananas over Satch Sanders' hands....The vertical line from the wrist to the base of the middle finger is the line of fortune, and to an expert chiromancer like Tricassus, that line would probably say it all....Harlem to Harvard...
When his brother Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, died in 1892, Sailor Prince George had worked his way up to the post of Commander of H. M. S. Melampus. Reluctantly he left her to take up his duties as eventual heir to the throne, which included his marriage to the present Queen Mary (of Teck), his dead brother's fianc...
Prince George, fourth son of Britain's George V, was assigned to the war boat Durban, last week, as "an interpreter in French." George V, the second son of Edward VII, was merely commander of H. M. S. Melampus when the death of his elder brother, now known as the Duke of Clarence, made him Prince of Wales, later King-Emperor...
...Prince George, youngest son of the King Emperor, entered the booth of a crystal-gazing fortune teller, laid down a crown. . . . "Your father," said the seer, "was a sea captain but he has retired." Prince George nodded encouragement. His father, the King Emperor, did indeed command H. M. S. Melampus in his youth. "Your eldest brother . . . wait, young man . . . you must warn him! I see him in the crystal. . . . It is tomorrow. He rides in a race and I see him fall. . . ." Laughing, Prince George strode from the booth. Later he warned Edward of Wales that if he rode next...
...Teck. Few of all the throngs that cheered them recalled that in 1892, one year before they were married, the death of Albert, Prince of Wales (now commonly referred to as the Duke of Clarence), elevated his younger brother George from the post of Commander of H. M. S. Melampus to the style of heir to the British throne. Descending from their carriage, the Imperial pair entered the State Robing Room of the Houses of Parliament...
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