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Burning Bright is a 1950 experimental novella by John Steinbeck. Burning Bright may also refer to: Burning Bright, a 2003 single from the post-grunge band Shinedown's debut album Leave a Whisper; Burning Bright, a 2010 horror-thriller directed by Carlos Brooks; Burning Bright, a 2007 novel by Tracy Chevalier
In 18th- and 19th-century Italy, the cicisbeo (UK: / ˌ tʃ ɪ tʃ ɪ z ˈ b eɪ oʊ / CHITCH-iz-BAY-oh, [1] US: / ˌ tʃ iː tʃ-/ CHEE-chiz-, [2] Italian: [tʃitʃiˈzbɛːo]; plural: cicisbei) or cavalier servente (French: chevalier servant) was the man who was the professed gallant or lover [3] of a woman married to someone else.
Cavalier derives from the same Latin root as the Italian word cavaliere, the French word chevalier, and the Spanish word caballero, the Vulgar Latin word caballarius, meaning 'horseman'. Shakespeare used the word cavaleros to describe an overbearing swashbuckler or swaggering gallant in Henry IV, Part 2 (c. 1596–1599), in which Robert Shallow ...
Fearful Symmetry is a phrase from William Blake's poem "The Tyger" (Tyger, tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry? It has been used as the name of a number of other works:
"Paris Is Burning" by Derajah & the Donkey Jaw Bone "Paris Is Burning" by Dokken "Paris Is Burning" by Ladyhawke "Paris Is Burning" by Mother's Ruin "Paris Is Burning" by Pallas "Paris Is Burning" by St. Vincent "Paris Is One Day Away" by The Mood "Paris Is Paris Again" from the musical Gigi "Paris Is Wonderful" by Joachim Kuhn
Chevalier College, an MSC school in Bowral, Australia; Chevalier-Montrachet, a Grand Cru vineyard in the Côte de Beaune; Chevalier Garden, a public housing estate in Hong Kong; Jules Chevalier, a French Catholic priest and founder of the Chevalier Family of missions; Mount Chevalier, a mountain in New Zealand
In the Grail romances and Chevalier au Cygne, it was the ethos of the Christian knighthood that its way of life was to please God, and chivalry was an order of God. [41] Chivalry as a Christian vocation combined Teutonic heroic values with the militant tradition of Old Testament. [23] Knights of Christ by Jan van Eyck
Alfonso XIII of Spain (left) with his cousin-in-law, the future King George V (right), during his State Visit to the United Kingdom in 1905. Alfonso is wearing the uniform of a general of the British Army, the Royal Victorian Chain, the sash and star of the Garter, the cross of the Order of Charles III, the neck badge of the Golden Fleece, and the badge of the four Spanish military orders.