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The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English trading company established in 1660 by the House of Stuart and City of London merchants to trade along the West African coast. [1] It was overseen by the Duke of York , the brother of Charles II of England ; the RAC was founded after Charles II ascended to the English throne in the 1660 Stuart ...
' gourd crab fish tiger '; also Bầu cua tôm cá or Lắc bầu cua) is a Vietnamese gambling game using three dice. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The game is often played at Vietnamese New Year . Instead of showing one to six pips, the sides of the dice have pictures of a fish ; a prawn ; a crab ; a cock ; a calabash ; and a stag (or a tiger ).
The Cor believe that all things have souls, including good spirits (garu) and bad spirits. They worship the souls of rice grains, spirit of cinnamon barks and of livestock. In former days, the Cor lived in long houses built on stilts called X'lup Recently, the Co has built shorter houses and at ground level. In the past, no Cor lineage had an ...
Some years after Deulin published Contes d'un buveur de bière, American playwright and blackface minstrel Frank Dumont wrote a loose variation on the story "Cambrinus, Roi de la Bière". In this musical burlesque , titled Gambrinus, King of Lager Beer , Gambrinus is a poor woodcutter to whom "Belzebub" [ sic ] gives a recipe for an excellent ...
Conte comes from the French word conter, "to relate". [2] The French term conte encompasses a wide range of narrative forms that are not limited to written accounts. No clear English equivalent for conte exists in English as it includes folktales, fairy tales, short stories, oral tales, [3] and to lesser extent fables. [4]
Contes et nouvelles en vers (English: Tales and Novellas in Verse) is an anthology of various ribald short stories and novellas collected and versified from prose by Jean de La Fontaine. Claude Barbin of Paris published the collection in 1665.
Cú Roí appears in the side-tale "Comlond Munremair & Con Roi" ("The combat of Munremar and Cú Roí") included in Recension I of Táin bó Cúailnge. [5] Cú Roí, who has sent a contingent to the Connacht army but had not hitherto been personally involved in the recent hostilities between Ulster and Connacht, [6] does intervene when he learns that the Ulster warrior Munremar mac Gerrginn (lit.
Contes is a 7.52-square-mile (19.5 km 2) commune in the Southeast of France. It is located on Paillon valley, between 130 and 480 metres AMSL (430–1580 ft). The inhabitants live mainly in the village, but also in hamlets like Sclos, La Vernéa, La Pointe.