A book written by French writer Henri Dubois regarding the hedonism present within the coart of Henry VIII including the lavish banquets,the murder of his wives,and his moving away from the catholic church. The title is a referenc to the delights that the king enjoyed.
A 1800s epic historical novel written by Danish author Hjalmar Henningsen about the events leading to the fall of the Kingdom of Scandinavia and the end of its Golden Age in 1670, due to the untimely death of King Christian V, who left this world without an heir. This triggered the War of Danish Succession as European powers such as Angland, Pomerania-Brandenburg, and Russia either vied to either rip apart the country for themselves amidst the chaos or support existing claimants to the throne further their own political interests. Over time as the country burned and armies pillaged cities like Stockholm, Malmo, Copenhagen, and others, it came to be known with a name: The Great Northern War.
A far western asian [ATL Europe] trade route, derived from a corruption of Jimurang, from the turkic group of languages.
Written after Finnegan's Wake, I never stole your girl (sic) is a novel by James Joyce that also experiments with wording and style, albeit with a more complex plot, than the former novel. It's most notable for being readable, rather than a veritable collection of word salad; however, it's still very difficult to piece together.
The important artifact from The Da Caprio Code, a 2007 novel satirizing The Da Vinci Code. Famous actor Leo Da Caprio is rumored to be trafficking in historic artifacts in order to get them into private collections. When one of Da Caprio's staff dies under mysterious circumstances including a rumored lost treatise of a 5th-century BC philosopher, a museum curator and a historian go on the hunt to prove the murder and acquire the artifact, evading cops, bodyguards and even a papal sniper all the while.
A political treatise disguised as a guidebook for farmers looking to plant orchards to diversify their income. Written in 1937 by the Italian-American theorist Tony Graham (né Gramsci), it metaphorically described the political systems of various countries as different species of fruit trees, such as the plum tree for the UK and the apple tree for the USSR. Despite several brushes with censors, the book still spread widely in popularity and contributed to the radicalization of rural voters in Roosevelt's New Deal Coalition. Today, it is viewed as a corollary to Steinbeck's classic novel The Grapes of Wrath, due both to the shared themes of class struggle and the seeming connection between their names, despite there being no evidence that either author intended for the latter similarity.
An amusement park built in 1968 just to the east of St Louis, the Pyramids of Cahokia carried a theme based on a somewhat eccentric version of Native American culture. Purchase by Six Flags in 1988, increasing public pressure led to the abandonment of the Native theme in 1992, resulting in a brief rebrand to Six Flags St Louis before various threats from the Missouri government led to the present name of Six Flags Collinsville.
The main character from the Germanization of House of Cards, an American television drama. The 2017 production, produced by Netflix, never made it past the pilot episode, largely because it borrowed directly from the American show while doing it worse; most notably, they literally translated Frank Underwood as Franz Unterholz, or retranslated, as Francis Undergrowth.
The Silvans are an ethnic group originally native to the Mahanadi basin of Desia before spreadiong across it and beyond.
I'm curious, is this at all a surname? I couldn't find any evidence of it, but it does roughly translate the name and concept of Underwood, so it's not impossible. And what connotations does it hold? (Yes, I did actually look up the etymology of "Underwood" for that.)
I just checked and apparently the surname Underwood derived from a shortening of "under the wood" which literally means someone living near a forest.
A documentary describing the british victory at Jutland over the Scandinavian Coalition in a curb stomp victory with the Royal Navy only losing 1 ship compared to the enemy’s 34.
Motto of the Republic of Missouri, formed 1849.
