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| − | * '''Saint Andrew Undershaft:''' a Church of England church located in the Aldgate ward of the City of London. Founded in 1147, it survived the Great Fire of London in 1666. The name | + | * '''Saint Andrew Undershaft:''' a Church of England church located in the Aldgate ward of the City of London. Founded in 1147, it survived the Great Fire of London in 1666. The name Undershaft comes from a huge maypole that stood next to the church in the Middle Ages. |
* '''Andrew Undershaft:''' In Shaw's Major Barbara (1906), an iconclastic armaments manufacturer, the father of the heroine, a major in the Salvation Army. He espouses his own "Gospel" of capitalism. | * '''Andrew Undershaft:''' In Shaw's Major Barbara (1906), an iconclastic armaments manufacturer, the father of the heroine, a major in the Salvation Army. He espouses his own "Gospel" of capitalism. | ||
| − | * '''Sainte Andrée Minutte:''' a French nun,guillotined in 1794 at Orange in Southern France, one of 32 nuns executed at the time. | + | * '''Sainte Andrée Minutte:''' a French nun, guillotined in 1794 at Orange in Southern France, one of 32 nuns executed at the time in the name of the French Revolution. |
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| + | * '''undershift''': a chemise or smock worn under other clothes | ||
[[Category: Shaw]] | [[Category: Shaw]] | ||
[[Category:theatre]] | [[Category:theatre]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 08:27, 15 July 2012
- Saint Andrew Undershaft: a Church of England church located in the Aldgate ward of the City of London. Founded in 1147, it survived the Great Fire of London in 1666. The name Undershaft comes from a huge maypole that stood next to the church in the Middle Ages.
- Andrew Undershaft: In Shaw's Major Barbara (1906), an iconclastic armaments manufacturer, the father of the heroine, a major in the Salvation Army. He espouses his own "Gospel" of capitalism.
- Sainte Andrée Minutte: a French nun, guillotined in 1794 at Orange in Southern France, one of 32 nuns executed at the time in the name of the French Revolution.
- undershift: a chemise or smock worn under other clothes
