Muhammad (20.04.671 – 08.06.632) – founder mohammedanskoy religion. Born in Mecca. He was originally from koreyshit, of the sort, perhaps even noble, but very poor and not powerful. His father, Abdollah, grandson of Hashim, was a merchant and died before the birth of a son. Six years later she died and the mother of M. [...]

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Cyril (St. Turovsky) (1130 – 1182) – a famous preacher and writer in the XII. Born in the town of Turov (in the current MG lips.) Adopting the tonsure, showed a thorough familiarity with the works of St. Fathers and acquired a great reputation among the brethren, "teaching, and teaching, by word and example of [...]

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Goliath – the famous giant Philistines, whose name is commemorated in the Biblical story of his duel with David (1 Sam. Ch. XVII). A native of Gath, he belonged to the remnants of an ancient giant tribe of giants.

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Duns Scotus (Johannes Dunsius Scotus) (1260 (1274) – 1308) – nicknamed Doctor subtilis, as Dr Marianus) – Last, and most original representative of the golden age of medieval scholasticism, and in some respects a forerunner of a worldview born. Likely to PM Duns (in yuzhn. Scotland), on the other assumptions – in Northumberland and in [...]

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Kiichelbecker Wilhelm Karlovich (1797 – 1846) – a famous writer. Kiichelbecker studied at the Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum, where Pushkin was a friend, friendship did not prevent the latter to pursue epigrams poetry exercises Kuchelbecker. From 1815, Kuchelbecker poems began to appear in the Journal of Europe "(signed by William)," Son of the Fatherland "," well-intentioned. [...]

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St. Anthony (251 – 356), also known as Anthony Fivskim – the father of monasticism, was born about 251 in Qom, near Heraclius in Upper Egypt. Having given all his possessions to the poor, he, for the sake of a pious life, new and retired in 270 to one of the tombs near their homeland, [...]

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Phaethon – (FaeJwn, Phaethon – Blazing) – Homer's epithet of Helios, in later writers the name of the son of Helios Oceanides Clim. According to legend, poetically developed by ancient writers, F., wanting to prove their descent from, Helios, turned, through Klimov, to his father, requesting him to one day manage a solar chariot. HELIOS [...]

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Salavat Yulayev (05 (16) .06.1752 – 26.09 (08.10) 1800), was born in the village Tekeevo now Salavat district Bashkir ASSR. Bashkir national hero, a close associate of EI Pugachev during the Peasants' War 1773 – 1775, poet-improviser. His father Yulai Aznalin participated in the Bashkir rebellion 1735 – 1740 (see Bashkir rebellion 17 – 18 [...]

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Chimera (Cimaira, Chimaera): 1) In Greek mythology, the monster that took the lion's head and neck, torso goats (cimaira – goat) and the tail of the dragon, and spews from the mouth of fire, and on Hesiod have H., corresponding to the three animal species, of which consisted of her body were three heads. Daughter [...]

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Maneton – the high priest and secretary of the Egyptian temples at the time of Ptolemy I and II. His name is connected idea of the beginning of the cult of Serapis. He attributed the philosophical, theological and historical, for the most part lost works such as "General Physics" (jusikwn epitomh), "On Holidays" (peri> Eortvn), [...]

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