20 лучших повестей на английском / 20 Best Short Novels

the Knights of Saint John  – one of the several names of the Hospitallers

801

the Order of Saint Jago  – the Spanish religious military order founded in 1160 to fight Muslims in Spain and protect the pilgrims going to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

802

Granada  – a city and province in southern Spain

803

the Duke of Wellington  — Arthur Wellesley (1769–1852), the hero of the victory over Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo (1815), later, prime minister of Great Britain

804

Valencia  — a region in eastern Spain

805

Trebizond – an ancient city on the Black Sea coast in what is now northeastern Turkey

806

Esther – a biblical character, a Jewish woman, wife to the king of Persia, who saved her people from the planned slaughter

807

a Fellow of King’s College  – a member of King’s College which was founded in the University of Cambridge by King Henry VI in 1441

808

Cambridge  – University of Cambridge, an autonomous higher educational institution founded in 1209

809

Newport  – a town and seaport in Wales, located on the River Severn, first mentioned in 1126

810

Achilles  – in Greek mythology, the greatest and bravest warrior in the Trojan War, vulnerable only in his heel

811

Cheshire  – a historic county in the northwest of England

812

Eton  – a college in Berkshire, the largest and most prestigious secondary school founded by Henry VI in 1440

813

The Stars and Stripes  – the name of the national flag of the USA consisting of stars that stand for the present number of states and 13 stripes that stand for the original 13 states

814

Ascot  – a locality in Berkshire, known for its races

815

Tudor hall  – a hall of the Tudor period; the Tudors were the royal dynasty in England in the 15th-17th centuries.

816

cheroot  – a thin cigar open at both ends

817

Fanny Davenport (1850–1898) – an American actress, very popular on the 19th century American stage

818

Sara Bernhardt (1844–1923) – a great French actress of the 19th century, a legendary figure in the history of stage

819

the Fourth Dimension of Space  – we live in the third-dimension space; the fourth dimension is said to be inhabited by supernatural beings

820

Voltaire (1694–1778) – one of the greatest French philosophers and writers, critical, witty and satirical

821

Charles James Fox (1749–1806) – a British politician, reformer and humanist

822

the Free American Reformed Episcopalian Church  – one of the divisions of the Protestant Church

823

Titan  – in Greek mythology, one of the children of Earth and Heaven, strong and rebellious

824

Chanticleer  – a character in medieval literature in which animals were given human characteristics, and they acted as humans; a cockerel

825

arquebuse  – a gun fired from the shoulder, invented in Spain in the 15th century

826

Benedictine  – a member of the monastic religious Order of Saint Benedict (480–547), the founder of the first monastery and the father of Western Christian monasticism