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Kyle

Kyle is a gender-neutral (though usually masculine) first name. It was originally a Scottish surname, and was derived from the Gaelic word "caol" which means "narrows", "channel", or "strait." It has consistently made the list of top 100 baby names for boys in the United States since the 1970s, having peaked at number 18 in 1990. It reached number 5 in Scotland in 2003.

Locations

Kyle is the name of several places:

In Scotland:

* District of Kyle, Ayrshire
* Kyle of Lochalsh

In the United States:

* Kyle, South Dakota
* Kyle, Texas
* Kyle, Georgia

Name

Kyle is also used to refer to:

* Kyle Broflovski, character on South Park
* Kyle, Australian R&B singer
* Kyle Katarn, main character of a series of Star Wars games

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Briseis

In Greek mythology, Brisēis (Greek Βρισηίς) was a Trojan widow (from Lyrnessos) who was abducted during the Trojan War by Achilles upon the death of her three brothers and husband, King Mynes of Lyrnessos, in the fight. After an oracle forced Agamemnon to give up Chryseis, a woman he had captured, the king ordered his heralds Talthybius and Eryrates to take Briseis from Achilles as compensation. Achilles was offended by this seizure and, as a result, withdrew from the fighting. He did not return to the fray until the death of Patroclus.

The retirement of Achilles to his tent is the first event of Homer's Iliad. With Achilles removed from the conflict, the Trojans enjoyed a period of success. After Achilles' return to the fighting, Agamemnon restored Briseis to Achilles.
Http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/homerica/t...es/briseis.jpg

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Gail

You may be looking for:
* the Gail River in Austria
* Gail language, a South African argot
* Gail Lake Township, Minnesota
* Jean-Baptiste Gail

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Sylver

Sylver is a Belgian trance duo best known for the song "Turn the Tide". The group is vocalist Silvy de Bie (born January 4, 1981) and keyboardist/songwriter Wout Van Dessel (born October 19, 1974). Regi Penxten is the producer and co-songwriter.

Silvy began her musical career at age nine on the Belgian television series De Kinderacademie (The Children's Academy). Belgian law prohibiting children under 16 from working, however, put a sudden end to this career. Later, she returned with the band "Lance".

Wout is a well known Belgian DJ. He and Silvy were acquainted at the disco where he was the resident DJ.

Sylver has toured not only in its homeland of Belgium, but also North America, South Africa, Asia, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe.

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Belle

* Belle is a slang word on RBAP
* Belle (chess machine) was a chess machine built by Ken Thompson out of commodity hardware. Belle gave birth to a lot of current computer chess "tricks" such as endgame tablebases.
* Belle (Peanuts) is a fictional character in the Peanuts cartoon. She is Snoopy's sister.
* Belle is a fictional character in Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
* The word belle (a homophone of bell), of French origin, means a beautiful young woman. The word is typically used in the south of the United States of America, where women are sometimes affectionately known as Southern belles.
* Belle Experiment is the name of an experiment at the KEKB electron-positron collider, at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation (KEK) in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Belle is also the name of the detector located at the collision point of the experiment.

[Tristana]

Cant find Trist in English. In the Spanish one though, it appears. Tristana is a movie from the 70's (which I actually watched).

I'm posting the Spanish, too lazy to translate but then, its not that hard to understand :

"Tristana"

Título original: (original title) Tristana
País(country): Francia / Italia / España
Año(year): 1970
Duración: (duration) 95 min.
Producción(producer): Luis Buñuel, Robert Dorfmann
Dirección(director): Luis Buñuel
Guión: Julio Alejandro, Luis Buñuel
Fotografía : José F. Aguayo
Música: (Frédéric Chopin)
Reparto (casT): Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Lola Gaos, Antonio Casas, Jesús Fernández
Comentarios (commentaries): Película basada en la novela del mismo nombre de Benito Pérez Galdós. Ganó el Oscar a la mejor película de habla no inglesa.

(it won an Oscar).

[Xenophon]

Xenophon (In Greek Ξενοφῶν, c. 427-355 BCE) was a soldier, mercenary and Athenian student of Socrates and is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the sayings of Socrates, and the life of Greece.
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Diogenes Laertius says Xenophon was sometimes known as the "Attic Muse" for the sweetness of his diction; very few poets wrote in the Attic dialect. Xenophon is often cited as being the original "horse whisperer", having advocated sympathetic horsemanship in his On Horsemanship.

Xenophon's writings, especially the Anabasis, are often read by beginning students of the Greek language. His Hellenica is one chief source for events in Greece from 411 to 362, and his Socratic writings, preserved entire, are the only surviving representatives of the genre of Sokratikoi logoi other than the dialogues of Plato.

'Willing obedience always beats forced obedience' -Xenophon

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Howe

Howe is the name of several places:

* Howe, North Yorkshire
* Howe, Oklahoma
* Howe, Texas
* Howe Township, Forest County, Pennsylvania
* Howe Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania

Howe is also the surname of a number of notable people:

* Clarence Decatur Howe prominent Canadian politician.
* Elias Howe, (1819-1867), inventor of the sewing machine
* E. W. Howe, US novelist
* Geoffrey Howe, (born 1926), British politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher
* George Howe (1725-1758), British general in French and Indian War
* Gordie Howe, (born 1928), ice hockey player
* Greg Howe, musician
* John Howe (1630-1705), English Puritan theologian
* John Howe (born 1957), Canadian illustrator
* Julia Ward Howe, (1819-1910), US reformer
* Richard Howe, (1726-1799), British admiral in American revolution
* Samuel Gridley Howe, (1801-1876), abolitionist & educator
* Steve Howe, musician
* William Howe (1729-1815) British general in American revolution

A Howe is also a type of barrow.

* There were several British warships names HMS Howe.

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Elsie

Elsie may refer to:

* Elsie, Michigan
* Elsie, Nebraska
* Elsie Lefebvre, a Quebec politician

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Boreas

Boreas ("north wind" or "devouring") was the Greek god with that name, one of the Anemoi the Winds, the winged sons of Eos and Aeolus: Eurus the East Wind, Notus the desiccating South Wind, and Zephyrus the gentle West Wind. Boreas was usually depicted as a racy old man, winged and very strong. Pausanias wrote that Boreas had snakes instead of feet, though in art he was usually depicted with human feet, which were often winged.

Boreas had two sons, two daughters, and twelve mares which are said to be able to run across a field of grain without trampling the plants. Pliny (Natural History iv.35 and viii.67) thought that mares might stand with their hindquarters to the North Wind, and bear foals without a stallion. When Athens was threatened by Xerxes, the people prayed to Boreas, who caused winds to sink 400 Persian ships.

He kidnapped Oreithyia, an Athenian princess, from the river llissus and with her fathered the Boreads and Chione.

His Roman mythological equivalent was Aquilo/Aquilon.

The Greeks believed that his home was in Thrace, and Herodotus and Pliny both describe a land beyond the northern wind known as Hyperborei, where people lived in complete happiness to extreme years.

Boreas was the father of Butes.

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Bertram

Bertram may refer to:

* Bertram, Iowa
* Bertram, Texas
* Bertram, Western Australia
* Operation Bertram a preparatory deception operation leading up to the Second Battle of El Alamein
* Charles Bertram, English was a literary impostor, who created a forgery in 1747 of a manuscript allegedly written by a nonexistent monk named Richard of Westminster, which "corrected and supplemented" the Itinerary of Antoninus. The work was generally accepted as genuine and had a wide and misleading influence upon many antiquarian writers. A translation of the faked document was included in Bohn's Antiquarian Library as one of the Six English Chronicles as late as 1872.
* Betram of Minden, also Master Bertram, German medieval painter (c. 1340-1414/1415)

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Alrik

According to the Ynglinga saga, Alrek and Eirík were sons and heirs of the previous king Agni by his wife Skjálf. They shared the kingship. They were mighty in both war and sports, but were especially skillful horsmen and vied with one another about their horsemanship and their horses.

One day they rode off from their retinue and did not return. They were found dead with their heads battered but no weapons with them save the bridle bits of their horses. Accordingly it was believed that they had quarreled and come to blows and had slain each other with their bridle bits. They were succeeded by Alrik's sons Yngvi and Alf.

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Hieronyma

Hieronyma is a genus belonging to the family Phyllanthaceae. The spelling Hieronyma has been conserved; the spellings Hieronima and Hyeronima are so-called "orthographical variants" of this name.

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Bragi

The name may derive from bragr meaning 'poetry'. That latter meaning may be itself be derived from the name Bragi, meaning 'what Bragi does'. A connection between the name Bragi and English brego 'chieftain' has been suggested but is generally now discounted.

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* Bragi's mother was Frigg.
* Bragi's mother was son of Odin by the giantess Gunnlöd.
* Bragi was generally conceived to have runes permanently carved into his tongue.
* Bragi was told to let the runes out like butterflies at banquets of the gods and in Valhalla in the form of poetry.
* Bragi had runes carved on his tongue by his wife Iðunn, the inventor of runes. (This is an invention of Barbara Walker, author of The Crone.)
* Bragi was responsible for dolling out the mead of poetry.
* Bragi customarily greeted new arrivals to Valhalla. (In fact this occurs only in the poem Eiríksmál.)

Some of the above are reasonable as modern literary invention in retellings or as scholarly speculation and may even have been what the ancient Norse believed for all that is known, but they are not found in surviving texts.

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Berthe

Berthe, Princess of Paris, also Bertha, Queen of Kent, (539-c.612) was one of Charibert's daughters. In marrying the pagan King Ethelbert of Kent, she brought her chaplain Liudhard with her, and restored a Christian church in Canterbury, which dated from the Roman occupation, dedicating it to St. Martin. The present St. Martin's at Canterbury occupies the same site. Saint Augustine, who was sent by Gregory the Great to preach the Gospel in England in 596, owed much of his favourable reception there to the influence of Berthe.

She seems to have had two children:

* Eadbald of Kent
* Ethelberg of Kent