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* '''Haroun Childeric Eggebert:''' [[HCE]] | * '''Haroun Childeric Eggebert:''' [[HCE]] | ||
| − | * '''Childeric I, II and III:''' Frankish Merovingian kings | + | * '''Childeric I, II and III:''' three Frankish Merovingian kings; Childeric III was the last Merovingian king of France |
* '''Haroun Childeric:''' Childe Harold, the world-weary hero of Lord Byron's narrative poem ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'' | * '''Haroun Childeric:''' Childe Harold, the world-weary hero of Lord Byron's narrative poem ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'' | ||
Revision as of 04:22, 25 June 2006
- Haroun Childeric Eggebert: HCE
- Childeric I, II and III: three Frankish Merovingian kings; Childeric III was the last Merovingian king of France
- Haroun Childeric: Childe Harold, the world-weary hero of Lord Byron's narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
- H. C. E. Childers: Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, a celebrated 19th Century British politician and statesman; towards the end of his ministerial career he was noted for his girth, and so acquired the nickname "Here Comes Everybody" (FW 032.18-19); he was a first cousin of Erskine Childers, who helped run guns to Howth in preparation for the 1916 Rising (FW 116.15); Childers ended his career as the chairman of the Royal Commission on Irish Financial Relations in 1892, and so may have been known to the child James Joyce as a powerful great fat man
- Sir Richard Francis Burton: British (of Irish extraction) explorer, best known today for his 16-volume translation of "The Thousand Nights and a Night" → childe = young knight → Sir → Childe-ric = Sir Ric, or Sir Richard → 004.32 Haroun → 005.28-29 one thousand and one
