Winged Victory of Samothrace — Winged Victory redirects here. For other uses, see Winged Victory (disambiguation). The Winged Victory of Samothrace Year c. 220–190 BC Type Parian marble Dimensions … Wikipedia
Winged Creatures (novel) — |Infobox Book name = Winged Creatures image caption = author = Roy Freirich cover design = Jeanette Levy country = United States language = English genre = Drama/Fiction publisher = St. Martin s Griffin release date = January 2008 pages = 295… … Wikipedia
Red-winged Blackbird — Taxobox name = Red winged Blackbird status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 image width = 250px image caption = Male regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Passeriformes familia = Icteridae genus = Agelaius species = A.… … Wikipedia
Green-winged Orchid — Taxobox name = Green Winged Orchid image width = 200px regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Liliopsida ordo = Asparagales familia = Orchidaceae subfamilia = Orchidoideae tribus = Orchideae subtribus = Orchidinae genus = Anacamptis… … Wikipedia
Mary Agnes Tincker — Frontispiece from The Jewel in the Lotos by Thomas Hovenden 1884. Mary Agnes Tincker (July 18, 1833 – December 4, 1907) was an American novelist. She published about a dozen novels and many short stories. She was made a member of the Ancient… … Wikipedia
Works and Days — An image from a 1539 printing of Works and Days Works and Days (in ancient Greek Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι / Erga kaí Hēmérai, sometimes called by the Latin name Opera et Dies, as in the OCT) is a didactic poem of some 800 verses written by the ancient… … Wikipedia
Hesiod — (Greek: polytonic|Ἡσίοδος Hesiodos ) was an early Greek poet and rhapsode, who presumably lived around 700 BCE. Hesiod and Homer are generally considered the earliest Greek poets whose work has survived since at least Herodotus s time ( Histories … Wikipedia
John Horne Tooke — (June 25, 1736 – March 18, 1812), was an English politician and philologist.He was born in Newport Street, Long Acre, Westminster, the third son of John Horne, a poulterer in Newport Market, whose business the boy, when at Eton College, described … Wikipedia
What a Pushkin, what a son of a bitch! — ( ru. ай да Пушкин, ай да сукин сын!; sometimes is separated by two exclamation marks instead of comma) is an eminent catchphrase and a winged word from Aleksandr Pushkin s correspondence with one of his friends, poet Pyotr Vyazemsky. The phrase… … Wikipedia
Genius (mythology) — Winged genius facing a woman with a tambourine and mirror, from southern Italy, about 320 BC. In ancient Roman religion, the genius was the individual instance of a general divine nature that is present in every individual person, place or… … Wikipedia
