Names: and Their Meaning

Why is it called Lloyd's? Why the Green Man? Leopold Wagner traced the origins of everything the Victorians had a name for — countries, tavern signs, flowers, wines, London streets, nicknames and battles — and found a story behind nearly all of them.

The Bible

3 pages in this part of Names and Their Meaning.

The Bible

N the estimation of many millions of human beings the Bible is very properly regarded as the "Book of Books." And a Book of Books. it truly…

The Bible: Testament

The original translation of the Hebrew Testament into Greek, about the year 260 в.c., bore the title of the Septuagint because it employed…

The Bible: Cranmer

The Authorized Version of the Bible appointed to be read in the Church of England is called King James's Bible, after James I., who ordered…

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