75 лучших рассказов / 75 Best Short Stories

jigembob = jig and bob; jig – a solo folk dance popular in Scotland, northern England and Ireland in the 16th–18th centuries; bob – an old Scottish dance.

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Yankee Doodle – a popular song of the time of the American Revolution, written by Richard Shuckburgh

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Orpheus – in Greek mythology, a legendary hero with outstanding musical gift

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Cicero (106 BC–43 BC) – the greatest Roman orator, statesman, lawyer and writer

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the Cockneys – here: native Londoners

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Portsmouth – a city on Portsea Island in the historic county of Hampshire, a naval base and a resort

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the battle of Naseby – the battle between the Parliamentary Army under Oliver Cromwell and the royalists in June, 1645

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Senlac – the place of the famous battle in which the English were defeated by the Normans under William the Conqueror in 1066

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La Place – Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), a French mathematician and astronomer, best known for his study of the solar system

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Sturm – Charles François Sturm (1803–1855), a French mathematician who made important contribution to the theory of equations

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Newton – Isaac Newton (1643–1727), a great English physicist and mathematician, the major figure in the scientific revolution of the 17th century

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Giotto (1266–1337) – the greatest Italian painter of the 14th century

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Deus ex machina = God from the machine ( Latin ); unexpected help.

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Alsatian – born in Alsace, a region of France on the German border

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Gallic – here: French

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Teuton – here: German

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Tahoe – Lake Tahoe in northern Sierra Nevada, on California-Nevada border in the USA

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aqua fortis = strong water ( Latin )

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orrery – a model of the solar system

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Aristotle (384 BC–322 BC) – an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, one of the greatest philosophers of all time

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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. ( German )

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Sylvester II (945–1003) – the head of the Roman Catholic church of France who later became Pope Sylvester II

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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 – Christiaan Huygens (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 Kerguelen-Trémarec and later explored by Captain James Cook

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Liebchen = sweetheart ( German )

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Vorwärts! = Forward! ( German )

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Nicht wahr? = Isn’t it? ( German )

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Um Gottes Willen = for God’s sake ( German )

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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 Toscana 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. ( Latin )

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Caliphs – here: rulers; caliph is a ruler in a Moslem community.

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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 – Theodore 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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