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* '''Helvetii:''' Gallic tribe whose migration from Helvetia (Switzerland) precipitated Caesar's Gallic War → the Judeans were also conquered by Rome (see [[joshuan judges]]) | * '''Helvetii:''' Gallic tribe whose migration from Helvetia (Switzerland) precipitated Caesar's Gallic War → the Judeans were also conquered by Rome (see [[joshuan judges]]) | ||
− | * '''Leviticus:''' third book of the Old Testament | + | * '''Leviticus:''' the third book of the Old Testament |
* '''Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-71):''' French hedonist and freethinker; his principal work, ''De l’esprit'', was condemned and publicly burned in 1759 | * '''Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-71):''' French hedonist and freethinker; his principal work, ''De l’esprit'', was condemned and publicly burned in 1759 | ||
+ | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=goto&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=124 Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
− | * ''''' | + | * '''Helveticus:''' (''Latin'') Swiss → ''[[Ulysses]]'' was largely written in Switzerland → [[Issy]], who sleeps in the dormer room at the top of [[HCE|HCE's]] tavern, is frequently associated with Rhaeto-Romanic terms, as though her room under the tavern's pitched roof is in the Swiss Alps |
− | * '''Hevelius''' | + | * '''Hevelius:''' Polish astronomer, selenographer |
Revision as of 11:32, 10 November 2006
- Helvetii: Gallic tribe whose migration from Helvetia (Switzerland) precipitated Caesar's Gallic War → the Judeans were also conquered by Rome (see joshuan judges)
- Leviticus: the third book of the Old Testament
- Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-71): French hedonist and freethinker; his principal work, De l’esprit, was condemned and publicly burned in 1759
- Helveticus: (Latin) Swiss → Ulysses was largely written in Switzerland → Issy, who sleeps in the dormer room at the top of HCE's tavern, is frequently associated with Rhaeto-Romanic terms, as though her room under the tavern's pitched roof is in the Swiss Alps
- Hevelius: Polish astronomer, selenographer