Similar words: cecil rhodes, rhode island, rhododendron, cathode, cathode ray, cathode ray tube, modest, geodesy. Meaning: n. 1. British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa; made a fortune in gold and diamond mining; helped colonize the territory now known as Zimbabwe; he endowed annual fellowships for British Commonwealth and United States students to study at Oxford University (1853-1902) 2. a Greek island in the southeast Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast; the largest of the Dodecanese; it was colonized before 1000 BC by Dorians from Argos; site of the Colossus of Rhodes.
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61. Cecil Rhodes, who arrived in South Africa in 1873, founds the DeBeers Mining Company with other investors.
62. While a group in Whittier , Calif . , may regard it as unfortunate that its college's first Rhodes Scholar comes from Watts, I , for my part , could not feel more pride about that than I do now .
63. Alexander Adriatic, Pergamon , Rhodes and other places as a new cultural centre.
64. The Colossus of Rhodes was a bronze statue of Helios, the Greek God of the Sun, erected near the mouth of the city harbor.
65. Meantime, the present situation is Kafkaesque, said Rhodes. "You have people finally calling for help and getting an answering machine."
66. The Colossus of Rhodes was a huge statue constructed in Rhodes in the 3 rd century BC.
67. The UC Rhodes Scholar, Mr William M F Wong, Barrister-at-Law and Professor Jeremiah K H Wong, Senior College Tutor, shared their experiences with the students.
68. The latter, after his defeat by Bayezid, sought refuge at Rhodes under a safe-conduct from the Grand Master and the General Convent of the Order.
69. Ben Rhodes, Obama's chief foreign policy speechwriter, said Obama told him "to cast a wide net" in preparing the address.
70. How could it take its place among other unique structures such as the Pyramid, the Hanging Gardens , and the Colossus of Rhodes?
71. Standing 30 m ( 100 ft ) high entrance to the harbour at Rhodes.
72. Doug Eakeley, my fellow Rhodes scholar at Univ, found a great old house on Long Island Sound in Milford.
73. An intense battle starts between Kratos and Colossus among buildings of City of Rhodes.
74. Returning to Arkansas after his years as a Rhodes scholar and Yale law student, Bill Clinton, the great chameleon of modern American political history, had to reconnect with an American vernacular.
75. This tipped the scales against the small reinforcement required for the attack on Rhodes.
76. Greek grammarian who taught at Rhodes and Rome and wrote an influential synthesis of Greek grammar, the Art of Grammar.
77. I was fascinated by Fulbright, grateful for the letter he had written for me to the Rhodes Scholarship Committee, and eager to learn more about what small-town Arkansans were thinking.
78. We had been friends since 1969, when he had come to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar a year after I did.
79. Completed in 282 B.C. after taking 12 years to build, the Colossus of Rhodes was felled by an earthquake that snapped the statue off at the knees a mere 56 years later.
80. He came to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and studied law.
81. She was admonishing her son, no less than a Rhodes scholar,[http://Sentencedict.com] for scrapping a promising military career to write songs in Music City.
82. "In my mind there are a lot of verbal promises but not much action," said Chris Whiteley, an enzymologist at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.
83. Now it seems a bit strained and overdone, as if I were trying to find the kind of voice in which a cultivated Rhodes scholar should speak.
84. And so he went to Rhodes to deliver final blow to the besieged city.
85. A few years later he won control of De Beers, a diamond miner that had been founded in 1880 by Cecil Rhodes, a British-born colonialist.
86. Every year thirty-two American Rhodes scholars are chosen for two years of study at Oxford, paid for by the trust established in 1903 by Cecil Rhodess will.
87. It's the former Rhodesia that British-born South African businessman, politician and De Beers chief Cecil Rhodes founded shortly after Britain invaded in 1893 and conquered Matabeleland.
88. To be born an Englishman,” Cecil Rhodes supposedly said, “is to win first prize in the lottery of life.
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