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Fortune crept back into popular acceptance, with a new iconographic trait, "two-faced Fortune", Fortuna bifrons; such depictions continue into the 15th century. [25] The ubiquitous image of the Wheel of Fortune found throughout the Middle Ages and beyond was a direct legacy of the second book of Boethius's Consolation.
Felicity is a feminine given name of English origin meaning "happiness".It is derived from the Latin word felicitas meaning "luck, good fortune". [1] It is also used as a form of the Latin name Felicitas, taken from the name of the Ancient Roman goddess Fortuna. [2]
The Wheel of Fortune motif appears significantly in the Carmina Burana (or Burana Codex), albeit with a postclassical phonetic spelling of the genitive form Fortunae. Excerpts from two of the collection's better known poems, "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (Fortune, Empress of the World)" and "Fortune Plango Vulnera (I Bemoan the Wounds of Fortune ...
Unpredictable turns of fortune drive the complicated plotlines of Hellenistic romances, such as, Leucippe and Clitophon or Daphnis and Chloe. She experienced a resurgence in another era of uneasy change, the final days of publicly sanctioned Paganism , between the late-fourth-century emperors Julian and Theodosius I , who definitively closed ...
Reginald Fortune, fictional detective of H. C. Bailey; Fortune, character from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty; Ms. Fortune (real name Nadia), a character from the fighting game Skullgirls; Miss Fortune (real name Sarah), the Bounty Hunter, a playable champion character in the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends
Fortune Records, 1946–1995; Fortune (band), 1980s, US The Fortunes, an English harmony beat group; Fortune, 2011; Fortune (Callers album) and its title song, 2008; Fortune (Chris Brown album), 2012
The Fortune 500 list is the ultimate measure of success for U.S. companies and Fortune’s flagship ranking. In a letter proposing the business magazine to advertisers in 1929, Time founder Henry ...
Before the adoption of luck at the end of the Middle Ages, Old English and Middle English expressed the notion of "good fortune" with the word speed (Middle English spede, Old English spēd); speed besides "good fortune" had the wider meaning of "prosperity, profit, abundance"; it is not associated with the notion of probability or chance but ...