- Currant by Webster's
... , chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.(n.) The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant or of its variety, the white currant.(n.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); especially, the Ribes rubrum.
- Lavranga, Denis by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... , 1864 (1860?), in Argostoli, Cephalonia; died July 30, 1941, in Razata, Cephalonia. Greek composer and conductor.Lavranga began as a theater conductor in France and Italy. In 1894 he returned to Greece, where he was artistic director of the Philharmonic Society of Athens. Between 1899 and 1935 he headed a Greek company contributing to the formation of the National ...
- Denis Lavranga by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... , 1864 (1860?), in Argostoli, Cephalonia; died July 30, 1941, in Razata, Cephalonia. Greek composer and conductor.Lavranga began as a theater conductor in France and Italy. In 1894 he returned to Greece, where he was artistic director of the Philharmonic Society of Athens. Between 1899 and 1935 he headed a Greek company contributing to the formation of the National ...
- Kefallinia by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
(Cephalonia), an island in the Ionian Sea, the largest of the Ionian Islands. A possession of...
- Carpocrates by Brenda Barrett
... women; he died, age 17, at Cephalonia and was long worshiped as a deity there. The Carpocratians believed that men had formerly been united with the Absolute, had been corrupted, and would, by despising creation, be saved in this life or else later through successive transmigrations. Jesus, they held, was but one of several wise men who had achieved deliverance.