Alfred (also "Ælfred" from the Old English: "Ælfrēd" //) (c. 849 - 26 October 899) was king of the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred is noted for his defence of the kingdom against the Danish Vikings, becoming the only English King to be awarded the epithet 'the Great' (although not English, Canute the Great was another "King of England" given this title by the Danes).

Hermes Trismegistus or Mercurius ter Maximus in Latin, is the syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth. In Hellenistic Egypt, the god Hermes was given as epithet the Greek name of Thoth. He has also been identified with Enoch. Other similar syncretized gods include Serapis and Hermanubis. Hermes Trismegistus might also be explained in Euhemerist fashion as a man who was the son of the god, …

Demeter is an main belt asteroid 26km in diameter, which was discovered in 1929 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg.

Rabbi Meir or Reb Meir Ba'al Ha-Nes (lit. "Rabbi Meir Master of the Miracle") was a famous Jewish sage who lived in the time of the Talmud. He was considered one of the greatest of the Tannaim of the second generation. According to a legend, his father was a descendant of the Roman Emperor Nero who had converted to Judaism. His wife Bruriah is one of the few women cited in the Gemara. There is a rule in the Gemara that runs, …

The Hillside Strangler is the media epithet for two men, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, cousins who were convicted of kidnapping, raping, torturing, and killing girls and women ranging in age from twelve to twenty-eight years old during a four-month period from late 1977 to early 1978 in the hills above Los Angeles, USA.

Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17,1903 - April 11, 1987) was an American author born in a house in the woods outside Moreland, Georgia in Coweta County. Caldwell was the son of a minister in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. His early childhood was spent moving from state to state across the South, as his father found a position in one church after another. Later, he attended, but did not graduate from, Erskine College.

Godred Crovan (died 1095) was a Norse-Gael ruler of Dublin, the Isle of Man and the Hebrides in the second half of the 11th century. Godred's epithet Crovan means white hand. In Manx folklore he is known as King Orry. The notice of Godred's death in the Annals of Tigernach calls him "Gofraid mac meic Aralt" or Godred, son of Harald's son. As a result, it has been suggested that Godred was a son, or nephew, …

Tuathal Teachtmhar or Techtmar was a legendary High King of Ireland, reputed to have ruled in the 1st or 2nd century. His name derives from Celtic "*Teuto-valos" ("leader of the tribe, people") and his epithet may mean "great crossing", "great possession", or "legitimate". He was the ancestor, through his grandson Conn of the Hundred Battles, of the Uí Néill and Connachta dynasties.

Niall Frossach (or Niall mac Fergaile was an 8th century Irish king of Ailech, sometimes considered to have been High King of Ireland. Brother of Áed Allán, Niall was the son of Fergal mac Máele Dúin and a member of the Cenél nEógain, a branch of the Northern Uí Néill. The epithet "Frossach" (showery) is said to come from showers of silver, honey and wheat which fell on his home at Fahan in Inishowen at his birth.

Charles O. Howard (born January 31 1961, died July 7 1984) was a resident of Bangor, Maine in 1984. As Howard and a male companion (Roy Ogden) were walking down the street, Shawn Mabry, Daniel Ness, and Jim Baines, aged 15-17, began to harass Howard for being a homosexual. The youths chased the pair, yelling anti-homosexual epithets, until they caught Charlie Howard and threw him over the State Street Bridge into the Kenduskeag Stream, …

Dub mac Maíl Coluim was king of Alba. In older histories his name may be found anglicised as Duff; the modern Gaelic version is "Dubh", which has the sense of dark or black, especially in reference to hair colour; in the "Chronicle of the Kings of Alba" and related Scoto-Latin texts he is called "Niger" ("Black"), a literal Latin translation of Dub. It may be that Dub was an epithet, …

Jintara Poonlarp (also "Poonlab", b. March 12 1971, in Kaset Wisai District, Roi Et Province, Thailand) is a Thai mor lam, luk thung and pop music singer. She is one of the most popular and prolific of the artists in the mor lam (Thai country) and luk thung (Thai pop-country) genres, having released nearly 40 albums and a number of compilations. She records roughly equal amounts of mor lam and luk thung, …

Milad Alexandre Mack Atala, also known as Alex Atala, is a chef and former DJ who runs the restaurant D.O.M. in São Paulo. He is praised for transforming classic, traditional Brazilian dishes by adopting the French and Italian cuisine's rigourous techniques and, at the same time, using indigeous Brazilian ingredients. Atala was born in the neighbourhood of Mooca in São Paulo, from a middle-class family of Palestine origin.

Humberto da Silva Delgado, <small>GCL</small>, pron., (15 May 1906 in Torres Novas - 13 February 1965 near Olivenza) was a Portuguese general and politician. He began his military career by joining Colégio Militar in 1916. Although initially a staunch supporter of the right-wing dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar, and the youngest general in Portuguese history, his passage as a military attaché to the Portuguese embassy in Washington, …

Robert Easton (born Robert Easton Burke, 23 November 1930) is an American actor whose career in film and television spans more than 55 years. He also has a number of credits as dialogue or accent coach. His mastery of English dialect has earned him the epithet "The Man of a Thousand Voices", and his coaching services have been in high demand for decades. On film, one of his earliest appearances was in The Red Badge of Courage.

Ashot II the Iron (yerkat) (ruled 914 - 928) was the son of King Smbat I. His reign was filled with rebellions by pretenders to the throne, and foreign invasions, which Ashot fought off successfully. This is how he got the epithet "the Iron". In 914, Ashot II visited Constantinople to get aid from Byzantine Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus. He returned to Armenia with large aid, and crushed the Arab harassment of his lands by Yusuf.

Abu Ubaida al-Masri is an al-Qaeda operative in Pakistan. Al-Masri has been implicated in the 2006 Transatlantic Aircraft Plot, which was to be carried out by a terrorist cell operating in London, but which was orchestrated by al-Qaeda's central leadership. Al-Masri is Egyptian (the epithet literally means 'the Egyptian') but he received combat experience, and terrorist and insurgent training in Afghanistan.

John Samuel Kenyon (1874-1959) was an American linguist. He graduated from Hiram College in 1898 and taught there as a professor of English from 1916 to 1944, when he retired and became an emeritus professor until his death. Together with Thomas A. Knott, he wrote "A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English" (1944), still regarded as a classic guide to American English pronunciation.

Sirlám, son of Fionn mac Brátha, was a legendary High King of Ireland. His name means "long arm": according to Geoffrey Keating, he was so called because his hands reached the ground when he was standing up (compare the Irish god Lug, whose epithet "lámfada" also means "long arm"). He defeated and killed the previous High King, Lugaid Iardonn, at Ráth Clochair. He ruled for sixteen years, before he was killed by Eochaid Uaircheas, who succeeded him.

The legend of Sheila NaGeira, the Irish Princess, claims that she was the first European woman to give birth in Newfoundland and quite possibly North America. There is no evidence of Vikings giving birth, but it may have been possible during their many voyages and settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows. She is sometimes claimed to have been the island's first schoolteacher, midwife and herbal doctor.

Áed mac Cináeda was a son of Cináed mac Ailpín. He became king of the Picts in 877 when he succeeded his brother Causantín mac Cináeda. The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says of Áed: "Edus held the same [i.e. the kingdom] for one year. The shortness of his reign has bequeathed nothing memorable to history. He was slain in the civitas of Nrurim." Nrurim is unidentified. Some variants give Áed the epithet wing-footed or white-foot.

Máel Coluim mac Donnchada (anglicised Malcolm III was King of Scots. He was the eldest son of Donnchad mac Crínáin. While often known as Malcolm Canmore or Malcolm Ceanmor, the earliest epithet applied to him is Long-Neck. It appears that the real "Malcolm Canmore" was this Máel Coluim's great-grandson Máel Coluim IV. Máel Coluim's long reign, spanning five decades, did not mark the beginning of the Scoto-Norman age, …

Domnall mac Causantín was King of the Picts or King of Alba in the late 9th century. He was the son of Causantín mac Cináeda. Domnall is given the epithet "dásachtach" by the Prophecy of Berchán, meaning a violent madman.

John Hill Hewitt (July 11, 1801, New York City-October 7, 1890, Baltimore) was an American songwriter, playwright, and poet. He is best known for his songs about the American South, including "A Minstrel's Return from the War", "The Soldier's Farewell", "The Stonewall Quickstep", and "Somebody's Darling". His output during the American Civil War earned him the epithets "Bard of the Stars and Bars" and "Bard of the Confederacy". Over his career, Hewitt wrote over 300 songs, …

Robert III of Dreux, Count of Dreux and Braine, was the son of Robert II, Count of Dreux, and Yolanda de Coucy. He was given the byname Gasteblé (lit. wheat-spoiler) when he destroyed a field of wheat while hunting in his youth. Along with his brother Peter, Duke of Brittany he fought with future Louis VIII of France in 1212 at Nantes and was captured there during a sortie. Exchanged after the Battle of Bouvines for William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, …

Drest Gurthinmoch was a king of the Picts. The Pictish Chronicle king lists all give him a reign of 30 years between Nechtan and Galan. The meaning of the epithet Gurthinmoch is unknown, but the first part may be related to the Welsh "gwrdd", meaning great.

Eochaid mac Domangairt was a king of Dál Riata (modern western Scotland) in about 697. He was a member of the Cenél nGabráin, the son of Domangart mac Domnaill and father of Eochaid mac Echdach; Alpín mac Echdach may also be a son of this Eochaid. He is named in Dál Riata king-lists, the Duan Albanach and the Synchronisms of Fland Mainistrech of Monasterboice. In some sources he is called Eochaid Crook-Nose ("Riannamail"), …

Nechtan son of Erip was a king of the Picts. The "Pictish Chronicle" king lists claim that he was the brother of Drest. The king lists supply a number of epithets for Nechtan: Morbet and Celchamoth and the Latin Magnus (the Great). He is said to have reigned for twenty-four years. In a rare change from a bald statement of names and years, …

Michael Anthony Richards (born July 24, 1949) is an American comedian and film and television actor best known for his role as the eccentric Cosmo Kramer on the television show "Seinfeld", a role which earned him three Emmy Awards. Richards began his career as a stand up comedian, first stepping into a national spotlight when he was featured on Billy Crystal's first cable TV special. He went on to become a series regular on ABC's "Fridays".

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 - December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor, and writer. Pryor was a storyteller known for unflinching examinations of racism and customs in modern life, and was well-known for his frequent use of colorful language, vulgarities, as well as such racial epithets as "nigga", "honky," "cracker" and "motherfucker." He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations, …

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