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The Bard (1778) by Benjamin West. In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities. With the decline of a living bardic ...
William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4][5][6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
Bardolatry is excessive admiration of William Shakespeare. [1] Shakespeare has been known as "the Bard" since the eighteenth century. [2] One who idolizes Shakespeare is known as a bardolator. The term bardolatry, derived from Shakespeare's sobriquet "the Bard of Avon" and the Greek word latria "worship" (as in idolatry, worship of idols), was ...
Barding. A museum display of a sixteenth-century knight with an armoured horse. Chinese Song dynasty lamellar horse barding as illustrated on Wujing Zongyao. Barding (also spelled bard or barb) is body armour for war horses. The practice of armoring horses was first extensively developed in antiquity in the eastern kingdoms of Parthia and Pahlava.
The Scottish Play. A 1972 book cover for a Galician printing of Macbeth. Theatrical superstition holds that speaking the name Macbeth inside a theatre will lead to a curse. The Scottish Play and the Bard's play are euphemisms for William Shakespeare 's Macbeth. The first is a reference to the play's Scottish setting, the second a reference to ...
Bard. The bard is a standard playable character class in many editions of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. [1] The bard class is versatile, capable of combat and of magic (divine magic in earlier editions, arcane magic in later editions). Bards use their artistic talents to induce magical effects. [2]
gemini.google.com /app. Gemini, formerly known as Bard, is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Google. Based on the large language model (LLM) of the same name and developed as a direct response to the rise of OpenAI 's ChatGPT, it was launched in a limited capacity in March 2023 before expanding to other countries in May.
These estates were called Blithewood, Bartlett, Sands, Cruger's Island, and Ward Manor/Almont. In 1853, John Bard and Margaret Bard purchased a part of the Blithewood estate and renamed it Annandale. John Bard was the grandson of Samuel Bard, a prominent doctor, a founder of Columbia University's medical school, and physician to George ...