Ehrenbreitstein Fortress. Festung Ehrenbreitstein View from Festung Ehrenbreitstein at Koblenz Aerial view American flag of last occupation reraised at Koblenz 1945 Memorial of the German Army (Ehrenmal des Deutschen Heeres) in the Fortress Ehrenbreitstein Fortress (German: Festung Ehrenbreitstein) is a fortress on the mountain of the same name on the east bank of the Rhine opposite the town of Koblenz in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was built as the backbone of the regional fortification system, Festung Koblenz, by Prussia between 1817 and 1832 and guarded the middle Rhine region, an area that had been invaded by French troops repeatedly before.
History[edit] Early fortifications at the site can be dated back to about 1000 BC. According to the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Rhineland became a Prussian province. In 1822 the English translation of the castle's name, The Broad-Stone of Honour, was used as the title of Kenelm Henry Digby's exhaustive work on chivalry. Quote[edit] Birds in Alchemy. Birds in Alchemy In alchemical writings we meet a seemingly bewildering multiplicity of animal symbols - red lions, white eagles, stags, unicorns, winged dragons and snakes.
Although at first glance all this complex mass of symbolism seems tortured and confused there is an inner coherence to these symbols, which the ancient alchemists used in specific ways reflecting their esoteric content. In this article I wish to consider a particularly tight knit group of these animal symbols, the birds of alchemy - the Black Crow, White Swan, Peacock, Pelican, and Phoenix - which are descriptive of certain stages of the alchemical process. Of course it would be wrong to suggest that there are fixed rigid meanings with regard to these symbols. The alchemists always integrated the symbols they used, so that one has to look at the total context, the background against which they stand, but when the birds appear in this sequence it is almost certain that the following interpretation can be applied. List of Greek words with English derivatives - Wikipedia, the fr.
This is an incomplete list of Greek words with derivatives in English. There are many English words of Greek origin, with a variety of histories: vernacular borrowing, typically passing through Latin and French; learned borrowing directly from Greek; coinage in post-classical Latin or modern European languages; and direct borrowings from Modern Greek. The words (or suffixes) are in Greek alphabetic order, with tables for the 24 Greek letters, listing thousands of related English words. Transliteration[edit] There are considerable differences between the various transliterations used to represent the Greek alphabet in English. The table in the sidebar shows: In ancient Greek, gamma was used to represent nu before a khi, ksi, kappa and another gamma. Greek words with modern derivatives[edit] The citation form shown is the form most commonly shown in dictionaries, but this form is often unrepresentative of the word as used to form a compound word, hence the root form is also shown.
Α[edit] a b g d. Literature >> Melville, Herman. In their "hearts' honeymoon," Queequeg and Ishmael unwrite many of the cultural fears that prevent communication across the boundaries of race and culture. Although presented in a tone of comic exaggeration, the wedding of Ishmael and Queequeg as a symbolic miscegenation that strikes at the heart of American and Western history possesses real potential to undercut a system of authority. <a href="/glossary.php? Word=homophobia&part=" target="_blank">homophobia</a> as a force linked to racism and required by patriarchal society just as much as the suppression of women. Male friendship, as Melville presents it, has the capacity of interrupting an economy of production. Like his contemporary Whitman, Melville sees in male friendship a social potential that is linked to the democratic mission of America.
In the chapter "The Doubloon," Melville has almost all of his characters read the coin nailed to the masthead. Nowhere is this more evident than in the chapter, "A Squeeze of the Hand. " Gay History and Literature.