Word: noblewoman
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...side of metaphysics and sprinkled with a light hint of useless-later-in-life. History and Science Donuts and Coffee: History and Science go together like donuts and coffee! Peanut butter and jelly! Pilbeam and vodka! Tea Stop with Lady Godiva in the English Department: Lady Godiva, a naked noblewoman on horseback, will tell you why the “and American Literature and Language” was just bringing us down. LUNCH AND DINNER Naked Lunch with the English Department: The English Department is passionate about nudity. By far our most awkward—and well attended?...
...story in brief: Young Hannibal, the son of a Lithuanian count and an Italian noblewoman, lives idyllically with them and his beloved baby sister Mischa - the first of the women Hannibal will love, venerate and dominate. The Nazi blitzkrieg flushes the Lecters out of the family estate and into the woods, where they survive by foraging. In the devastating winter of 1944-45, with the country starving, some army deserters with Nazi tendencies kill Hannibal's parents and round up the local children. "We have to eat or die," one deserter tells them - the kids are to be killed, cooked...
...figures in the two frames face each other. One is a study of sullen little girl rendered in hasty brushstrokes. The other, a delicately sketched Renaissance noblewoman, is a copy of a drawing attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci. At first glance, these two works seem to have little in common.But Stephan Wolohojian, professor of history of art and architecture and a curator of the “Degas at Harvard” exhibit, can point out exactly why these two works are hanging side by side. It’s not simply that both were created by Edgar Degas during...
...first glance, the Museum of Fine Arts seems one of the least likely venues for cutting-edge indie concerts. Many cringe after imagining chest-high Bermuda blue-hairs dragging pants-wetting grandchildren through room after room of faded pictures of this or that aged, plump noblewoman...
...Mondego and grab a taxi across the bridge to the Quinta das Lágrimas (house of tears) in Santa Clara. The hotel was built on the site of Portugal's most tragic love affair. In the 14th century, Prince Dom Pedro fell in love with the beautiful Spanish noblewoman Dona Inês. They lived with their two children until one January night in 1355, when Pedro's father, King Afonso IV, fearing that Inês' Spanish brothers were plotting to usurp his throne, had Inê murdered in the garden. When the inconsolable Dom Pedro became king...