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BRITOMARTIS '(" sweet See also:maiden "), an old Cretan goddess, later identified with See also:Artemis. According to See also:Callimachus (Hymn to See also:Diana, 1t o), She was a nymph, the daughter of 'See also:Zeus and See also:Cattle, 'ands a favourite See also:companion of Artemis. ' "Being pttrstied by See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill, kited See also:Crete, who was enamoured' of her, she sprang from a See also:rock into 'the See also:sea, but was saved from drowning by, falling into statle'fishermen's nets: Shewasafterwards made a goddess by Artemis under the name of Dictynna(StKrvov,'" a
The See also:Celtic See also:language is still spoken in See also:lower See also:Brittany. Four dialects are See also:pretty clearly marked (see the See also:article See also:CELT: Language, "See also:Breton," p. 328). Nowhere has the See also:taste for marvellous legends been kept so See also:green as in Brittany; and an entire folk-literature still flourishes there, as is manifested by the large number of folk-tales and folk-songs which have been collected
See also:net " ). She was the patroness of hunters, fishermen and sailors, and also a goddess of See also:birth and See also:health. The centre of her See also:worship was Cydonia, whence it extended. to See also:Sparta and See also:Aegina (where she was known as Aphaea) and the islands of the Mediterranean. By some she is considered to have been a See also:- MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
moon-goddess, her See also:flight from See also:Minos and her leap into the sea signifying the revolution and disappearance of the moon (See also:Pausanias ii. 30, iii. 14; See also:Antoninus Liberalis 40).
BRITON-See also:FERRY, a seaport in the See also:mid-See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Glamorganshire, See also:Wales, on the eastern See also:bank of the See also:estuary of the See also:Neath See also:river in See also:Swansea See also:Bay, with stations on the See also:Great Western and the See also:Rhondda & Swansea Bay See also:railways, being 194 M. by See also:rail from See also:London. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 6993. A tram-See also:line connects it with Neath, 2 M. distant, and the Vale of Neath See also:Canal (made in 1997) has its See also:terminus here. The district was formerly celebrated for its scenery, but this has been considerably marred by See also:industrial development which received its See also:chief impetus from the construction in 1861 of a See also:dock of 13 acres, the See also:property of the Great Western Railway See also:Company, and the ripening up about the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:mining districts of Glyncorrwg and Maesteg by means of the See also:South Wales See also:mineral railway, which connects them with the dock and supplies it with its chief export, See also:coal. See also:Steel and tinplates are manufactured here on a large See also:scale. There are also See also:iron-See also:works and a foundry.
The name La Brittone was given by the See also:Norman settlers of the 12th See also:century to its ferry across the estuary of the Neath (where See also:Archbishop See also:Baldwin and Giraldus crossed in 1188, and which is still used), but the Welsh name of the See also:town from at least the 16th century has been Llansawel.
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