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Saint Giles — Infobox Saint name=Saint Giles birth date=c. 650 [http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk issue/2003/sepoct/feature3.html The West Portal of Saint Gilles du Gard, ] by R.J. Gangewere, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, September/October 2003] death… … Wikipedia
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Cripplegate — One of the City Gates in the north wall of the City leading into Fore Street. In Cripplegate Ward. Earliest mention: Cripelesgate. Ciryclegate. Cirpilegate in De Institutis Lundonie, Laws of Ethelred, c. 978 1016 (Thorpe, I. 301).… … Dictionary of London
St. Giles' Cathedral — A prominent feature of the Edinburgh skyline, St. Giles Cathedral or the High Kirk of Edinburgh is a Church of Scotland place of worship decorating the midpoint of the Royal Mile with its highly distinctive hollow crown tower. The church has been … Wikipedia
Wamba — [According to Herwig Wolfram, Thomas J. Dunlap trans. History of the Goths (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), p. 463 n. 326, Wamba means big paunch in Gothic and may have been a nickname.] (died 687) was the king of the Visigoths… … Wikipedia
List of The Dresden Files groups — The Dresden Files is a series of fantasy/mystery novels written by Jim Butcher. As well as several organizations, the Dresden Files universe contains a number of miscellaneous groups. Contents 1 Black Council 2 Knights of the Cross … Wikipedia
Giles — m English: much altered version of the Late Latin name Aegidius, from Greek Aegidios (a derivative of aigidion kid, young goat). The name was very popular in the Middle Ages, as the result of the fame of the 8th century St Giles. According to… … First names dictionary
GILES, ST. — the patron saint of cripples, beggars, and lepers; was himself a cripple, due to his refusal to be cured of a wound that he might learn to mortify the flesh; was fed by the milk of a hind that visited him daily; had once at his monastery a… … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
hopping-Ciles — obsolete British a lame person St Giles was the patron saint of cripples in the days when they were accepted as a common and unremarkable feature of society, and before the word cripple was considered derogatory and it became taboo to… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
Bénézet — Benezet redirects here. See Anthony Benezet for the educator. Infobox Saint name= Saint Bénézet birth date= 1163 death date= 1184 feast day= April 14 venerated in= Roman Catholic Church imagesize= 250px caption= Pont Saint Bénézet before its… … Wikipedia
