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* from 1939 one of the principal networks of BBC Radio, renamed Radio 4 in 1967
1 a street in NYC, where the wealthy reside
2 a county south-east of NYC, the residence of the rich and fashionable
3 a town in Essex County, northeastern Massachusetts
1 a thoroughfare in the central part of NYC
1 a renowned American medical facility based in Rochester, Minnesota. Most patients come to the Mayo Clinic to have a difficult medical condition diagnosed or treated or to get a second opinion on a diagnosis.
1 the capital city and chief port of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, on the northeastern coast of New Providence Island. It is a world-famous tourist center, known for its fine beaches, colorful tropical vegetation, and the resort community of Paradise Island across the harbor.
1 a town in Connecticut, USA
1 a city in Connecticut, USA
1 a large chain of grocery stores (short for the original name - The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company)
2 the Archies Army (sl) – anti-aircraft guns
3 a deliberately inaccurate reference to Von Richthofen’s circus. Von Richthofen was a German fighter pilot of World War I, and his “Circus” was the squadron he commanded.
* The most famous tale by P.Mérimée (also an opera written in 1875 by the French composer Georges Bizet). The narrator encounters and befriends Don José, a soldier turned bandit who is under sentence of death. José recounts his passion for the gypsy Carmen who led him into a life of crime, robbery, and murder, all the while betraying him with other men. José murders her, motivated by despair rather than rage. In an economic but intense style, Mérimée explores the relationship between passion, crime, and death.
1 a very comfortable train carriage, or a train made up of these carriages
1 a short prayer of blessing or thanksgiving said before or after a meal
2 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751), one of the most famous poems by the English poet Thomas Gray (1716-1751). By alluding to it, R. Graves compares Julius to the rebellious villager (“a village Hampden”), who boldly withstood the tyranny of the landlord.
1 Nunc Dimittis (Lat.) – «Ныне отпущаеши». From the Gospel according to St Luke, II, 29: “Nunc Dimittis servuum tuum, Domine” – “Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace”/ «Ныне отпущаеши раба Твоего, Господи» - the first words of the song of Simeon. Simeon was a devout man of Jerusalem: “it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost that he shall not see his death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.” He uttered the words known as “Nunc dimittis” when he saw the infant Jesus in the temple. “Nunc dimittis” often means a declaration of willingness or joy at the prospect of departing from life or from some occupation.
1 a usually buff or white earthenware with an often spattered brown glaze. Also an ornately decorated and gilded 19th c. bone chinaware.
2 a fine pottery or porcelain made at the works of Josiah Spode (1754-1827) at Stoke, Staffordshire, England
3 cut glass produced at the Irish town of Waterford at the end of the 18th c.
4 fine ornamental glass of various colours, whose choicest varieties come from Murano, near Venice (Italy)
5 a light, elegant style in furniture, developed around 1800 by Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806), an English designer, and marked by straight lines and graceful proportions
6 furniture made by or in the style of Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779), English cabinet-maker. It was graceful but often ornate, rococo ornamentation predominating.
7 an outstanding French Impressionist landscape painter (1840-1926)
8 a famous French painter associated with Impressionism (1832-1883)
9 [pL'ma:r] a red Burgundy wine
10 a white Burgundy wine considered to be one of the finest in the world
11 one of the greatest English landscape artists (1776-1837)
12 English painter associated with the Romantic movement (1801-1828)
13 French Post-Impressionist painter and graphic artist (1864-1901)
14 French symbolist painter, lithographer and etcher (1840-1916)
15 French painter and lithographer (1868-1940)
16 English painter influenced by Fauvism (1879-1959)
* a card game
1 a town near London (it was incorporated into London in 1963)
1 a street in the central part of Paris where numerous fashionable shops are situated
1 a street in a proletarian district in the southern part of Paris, where in 1916 Soutine had a studio
1 a village close to the border between France and Spain
2 a seaport in the north of France