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Look up: faun

  1. Faun
    A follower of the god Pan, renowned for dancing and merrymaking.
    Found on http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum/glo

  2. faun
    [n] - ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat`s tail
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Faun
    Vehicle manufacturer [DE]
    Found on http://www.jedsite.info/index.html

  4. faun
    a congenital anomaly of the auricle in which there is failure in the development of the helix Category: Medicine
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  5. Faun
    Faun noun [ Latin Faunus , from favere to be favorable. See Favor .] (Rom. Myth.) A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man. « Satyr or Faun , or Sylvan.» Milton.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/12

  6. faun
    A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man. 'Satyr or Faun, or Sylvan.' (Milton) ... Origin: L. Faunus, fr. Favere to be favorable. See Favor. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. faun
    noun ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat`s tail; equivalent to Greek satyr
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. Faun
    In Roman mythology, `fauns` are place-spirits (`genii`) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Bacchus (Greek Dionysus). However, fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures. Both have horns and both resemble goats below the waist, humans above; but originally satyrs had human feet, fauns goatlike hooves. The Romans also had a god named Faunus and goddess Bon...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faun

  9. Faun
    • (n.) A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. Faun
    Faun is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Fawn` Faun,Faune The name Faun doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Faun seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Fau

  11. faun
    faun In Roman mythology, a rural god, often depicted as a creature with the body of a man and the legs and horns of a goat. The Greek equivalent is satyr.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  12. faun
    faun: see Faunus.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A09133


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21 November 2009

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On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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