menial duties
1menial servant — A servant whose duties involve the most simple of domestic tasks, requiring little, if any, exercise of discretion, and often consisting in tasks of a degrading nature. Menials or menial servants were originally so called because they were… …
2Menial — Someone within a lord s meinie, i.e. a man who performed household duties for his lord. These men were soldiers or officials. The tasks they performed would not have been degrading. The current sense is a dilution of the original meaning, applied …
3Spenser, Edmund — born 1552/53, London, Eng. died Jan. 13, 1599, London English poet. Little is known for certain about his life before he entered the University of Cambridge. His first important publication, The Shepheardes Calender (1579), can be called the… …
4Luther, Martin — • Leader of the great religious revolt of the sixteenth century in Germany; born at Eisleben, 10 November, 1483; died at Eisleben, 18 February, 1546 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Luther, Martin …
5Luther — Martin Luther † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Martin Luther Leader of the great religious revolt of the sixteenth century in Germany; born at Eisleben, 10 November, 1483; died at Eisleben, 18 February, 1546. His father, Hans, was a… …
6Martin Luther — Martin Luther † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Martin Luther Leader of the great religious revolt of the sixteenth century in Germany; born at Eisleben, 10 November, 1483; died at Eisleben, 18 February, 1546. His father, Hans, was a… …
7Henley Royal Regatta — A race taking place at the 2004 regatta Henley Royal Regatta is a rowing event held every year on the River Thames by the town of Henley on Thames, England. The Royal Regatta is sometimes referred to as Henley Regatta, its original name pre… …
8Tommie Burton — William Thomas Burton (born 31 January 1878 in Black Rock, St Michael, Barbados, died 22 August 1946, St Michael, Barbados) was a coloured West Indian cricketer best known as a member of the 1900 and 1906 West Indian tourists to England. He is… …
9Sizar — A sizar formerly referred to students of limited means at the universities of Cambridge and Trinity College, Dublin, who were charged lower fees and obtained free food and/or lodging and other assistance during their period of study.According to… …
10GWR 6100 Class — Infobox Locomotive powertype=Steam name = GWR 6100 Class caption = 6165 at Reading with a train of mineral wagons, May 1964 designer = Collett builder = GWR builddate = 1931 1935 totalproduction = 70 whytetype = 2 6 2 gauge = 4 8½ leadingsize =… …
