NORTHERN DIALECT IN LEAR: 'Ice try whither your Costard, or my Ballow be the harder.
Elizabeth Weir
Here's an interesting example of northern
dialect mixed into the East Midlands dialect of the
West Midlands butcher from Stratford's King Lear.
Lear says in IV. vi. 246
Ice try whither your Costard, or my Ballow be
the harder.
Now the word 'ice' is actually 'I shall' in the north,
north defined as 'anything that is not west or south'
in terms of English dialects. The Stratford butcher's
dialect was a west dialect.
The OED shows various forms including 7 -ce:
5. Reduced enclitic forms (all persons and numbers).
() 6 -sh, -s, 7 -ce, 6- -se, 7- s'; miswritten 7-9 's, 8-9 'se.
Very frequent in the north, in the expressions Ise uphaud,
Ise warrant: see Uphold, Warrant in Eng. Dial. Dict.
The word 'costard' for 'head' is ME for 'apple'
probably from OF but 'ballow' seems not to be
a word although the OED notes that Halliwell-
Philipps marked the word ballow 'Northern.'
Lynne
A ballow is a cudgel.
Best,
Lynne
lyra
> Elizabeth Weir wrote in message news:<efbc3534.03101...@posting.google.com>...
ballow
\Bal"low\, n. A cudgel. [Obs.] --Shak.
Source </search?q=00-database-info&db=web1913>: Webster's Revised
Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ballow
Ballow is also a surname, in various genealogy pages
on the web.
Elizabeth Weir
Thanks Lynn and Lyra.
Art Neuendorffer
> > > Here's an interesting example of northern
> > > dialect mixed into the East Midlands dialect of the
> > > West Midlands butcher from Stratford's King Lear.
> > >
> > > Lear says in IV. vi. 246
> > >
> > > Ice try whither your Costard,
> > > or my Ballow be the harder.
> > >
> > > Now the word 'ice' is actually 'I shall' in the north,
> > > north defined as 'anything that is not west or south'
> > > in terms of English dialects. The Stratford butcher's
> > > dialect was a west dialect.
> > >
> > > The OED shows various forms including 7 -ce:
> > >
> > > 5. Reduced enclitic forms (all persons and numbers).
> > > () 6 -sh, -s, 7 -ce, 6- -se, 7- s'; miswritten 7-9 's, 8-9 'se.
> > > Very frequent in the north, in the expressions Ise uphaud,
> > > Ise warrant: see Uphold, Warrant in Eng. Dial. Dict.
> > >
> > > The word 'costard' for 'head' is ME for 'apple'
> > > probably from OF but 'ballow' seems not to be
> > > a word although the OED notes that Halliwell-
> > > Philipps marked the word ballow 'Northern.'
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> Lynne wrote
> > A ballow is a cudgel.
> > Best,
> > Lynne
"lyra" <mountai...@RockAthens.com> wrote
> ballow \Bal"low\, n. A cudgel. [Obs.] --Shak.
>
> Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
> Ballow is also a surname
see bellow:
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_Finnegans Wake_:
"nor avoice from afire BELLOWSED MISHE MISHE . . ."
['MISHE MISHE' is Gaelic for: 'I AM THAT I AM']
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Art N.
David L. Webb
"Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net> wrote:
[...]
> > > A ballow is a cudgel.
> > > Best,
> > > Lynne
> "lyra" <mountai...@RockAthens.com> wrote
>
> > ballow \Bal"low\, n. A cudgel. [Obs.] --Shak.
> >
> > Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
>
> > Ballow is also a surname
> see bellow:
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> _Finnegans Wake_:
> "nor avoice from afire BELLOWSED MISHE MISHE . . ."
>
> ['MISHE MISHE' is Gaelic for: 'I AM THAT I AM']
> --------------------------------------------------------------
Excellent, Art! And "Misha Mysh'" is Russian for Mickey Mouse. I'm
sure that you can apply your usual methods to discoVER Walt Disney's
role in the Masonic conspiracy, Art; see
<http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/03/24/food-kapelovitz.php>
as a starting point. Incidentally, Art, have you figured out yet who
Jean Cocteau's successors were and are?
Art Neuendorffer
>>>> Lynne wrote:
> >>>> A ballow is a cudgel.
--------------------------------------------------
> >> "lyra" <mountai...@RockAthens.com> wrote
> >>
> >>> ballow \Bal"low\, n. A cudgel. [Obs.] --Shak.
> >>>
> >>> Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
> >>
> >>> Ballow is also a surname
--------------------------------------------------
> > "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >> see bellow:
> >> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> _Finnegans Wake_:
> >> "nor avoice from afire BELLOWSED MISHE MISHE . . ."
> >>
> >> ['MISHE MISHE' is Gaelic for: 'I AM THAT I AM']
> >> --------------------------------------------------------------
> <david....@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> > Excellent, Art! And "Misha Mysh'" is Russian for Mickey Mouse.
> > I'm sure that you can apply your usual methods to discoVER
> > Walt Disney's role in the Masonic conspiracy, Art;
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BBC News, 15 November, 2002
<<A 700-year-old fresco bearing an uncanny resemblance to Walt Disney's
Mickey MOUSE has been discovered in Austria. The mouse figure was unearthed
by an art historian working on the church in the southern village of MALTA.
The figure bears an enormous resemblance to Walt Disney's famous MUSEe to
this 14th Century figure. It has the same upturned nose and large, rounded
ears. The manager of the local tourism office is claiming that the discovery
makes the famous mouse a citizen of Austria. But art historians are
not convinced the water-damaged depiction is a MOUSE at all.
The figure is portrayed kneeling in front of a depiction of St Christopher.
Historians say the creature may in fact be a weasel, which
in medieval times was believed to give birth through its ears.>>
------------------------------------------------------
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_709660.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_714510.html
700-year-old picture of 'Mickey Mouse' found in Austrian church What appears
to be a 700-year-old picture of Mickey Mouse has been discovered on a church
fresco in Austria. The 700 year old fresco that depicts a Mickey Mouse-style
cartoon /Oscar Kornyeiemail Walt Disney first sketched his character in 1928
but an Austrian art historian spotted an uncannily similar drawing. The
painting, which has been dated back to the early 14th Century, is in the
Community Church in Malta, Carinthia. Next to a large sketch of St.
Christopher is a clear drawing of the mouse. Art historian Eduard Mahlknecht
believes the similarity to Mickey is pure coincidence. He told Austrian
daily 'Krone: "St Christopher was often depicted surrounded by various
animals and sea-life, and in this case something that resembles Mickey
Mouse. "It is most likely to be a drawing of a beaver or a weasel." However,
Carinthia's tourism office is already thinking of ways to cash in on the
sketch. Siggi Neuschitzer, manager of the Malta Tourism Association, said:
"The similarity of the painting to Mickey Mouse is so astounding that the
Disney concern could even lose its world-wide copyright licence. "Our Mickey
Mouse is 700 years older than Disney's and we will get it legally examined."
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"Janice B. Miller" <jbmi...@world.std.com> wrote
> And "Misha Mishka" is the name of a teddy bear I've had for many years.
> (He's also known as "Bobo," unfortunately. That's pronounced "beau-beau,"
> not "Bobb-oh.") Are the Pot-Bellied Bear people in the conspiracy, too?
> (What about the fact that it took 13 months to get a notice of the
recording
> of the release of my original mortgage from Orange County, Calif., to
> Cambridge, Mass.: arrived today, dated 9/12/02? What about that
conspiracy,
> Dave?)
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http://home.concepts.nl/~lwmkeijs/bb039.htm
<<Bobo is de Teddybeer. We kennen Mr. Burns als de kwaadaardige industrieel
uit 'the Simpsons'. Mr. Burns zijn teddybeer Bobo was het onderwerp van een
hele aflevering in 1993. Toen Mr. Burns nog heel jong was, offerde hij zijn
teddybeer op, voor een rijk leven. In de aflevering van 'de Simpsons', komt
Maggie Simpson in het bezit van Bobo de beer. Hij wordt gevonden door Bart
Simpson, in een zak met ijs. Mr. Burns wil de beer van Homer kopen, maar als
Homer ziet hoe gehecht zijn kleine Maggie aan de beer is, besluit hij de
beer niet te verkopen. Aan het eind van de aflevering aanvaard Mr. Burns
zijn verlies in Maggie's zandbak. Als hij Maggie het advies geeft goed op de
beer te passen en niet dezelfde fout als hem te maken, geeft ze Bobo terug
aan mr. Burns.
Bobo heeft ooit in het gezelschap verkeert van minstens twee historische
figuren. In 1927 stak hij de Atlantische Oceaan over met Charles Lindbergh
en in 1945 zat hij in een bunker in Berlijn, tijdens de laatste dag van
Adolf Hitler.>>
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November 12, 1923, Adolf Hitler arrested for his role in a would-be
coup to overthrow the Bavarian government.
November 12, 1660, John Bunyan arrested for unlicensed preaching
in Bedfordshire. He was imprisoned for 12 years.
November 12, 1940, Walt Disney releases Fantasia.
http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/1112.htm
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-
"Janice B. Miller" <jbmi...@world.std.com> wrote
> > <http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/03/24/food-kapelovitz.php>
>
> Ohmigod! There it is again! Orange County! Aack!
> Maybe I ought to calm down with a nice soothing cup of coffee.
> > as a starting point. Incidentally, Art, have you figured out yet who
> > Jean Cocteau's successors were and are?
Whoever he is I hope he is enjoying the Madonna with the Yarnwinder:
____________________________________________________
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From: Art Neuendorffer (aneuendor...@comcast.net)
Subject: Re: spindle of a spinning wheel for its mast
Newsgroups: humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare
Date: 2003-08-29 09:17:14 PST
> > > > lyra wrote
-------------------------------
> > > > > "Da Vinci painting stolen from Scottish castle
> > > > >
> > > > > A Leonardo da Vinci painting, the Madonna with the Yarnwinder,
> > > > > has been stolen from Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland.
> > > > > Police said the painting was stolen at about 11am when thieves,
posing
> > > > > as visitors to the castle, overpowered a female guide and took it
from
> > > > > where it was displayed in the castle's staircase hall.
> > > > >
> > > > > Detectives said they are looking for four men seen driving a white
> > > > > Volkswagen Golf Gti in the area around the time the painting was
> > > > > stolen.
> > > > >
> > > > > They also released descriptions of two men seen near the castle
> > > > > at the time of the theft. Both men are said to be in their
forties,
> > > > > about 5ft 10 tall, slim and clean shaven.
> > Neuendorffer wrote:
> >
............................................................................
> > > > http://www.abcgallery.com/L/leonardo/leonardo29.html
> > > > http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/yarnwinder.html
> > > >
> > > > <<This painting is sometimes called Madonna of the Spindle
> > > > or the Madonna with the Distaff. >>
> > > > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > > > - Manly P. Hall, Masonic, Hermetic, Quabbalistic & Rosicrucian
> > > > <<The office of Nautonnier or Navigator, is symbolized by the
> > > > boat of Isis. "Isis holds in her right hand a small sailing ship
> > > > with the spindle of a spinning wheel for its mast.>>
> > "David L. Webb" <David....@Dartmouth.edu> wrote
> >
> > > I trust that you're aware, Art, that "mast"
> > > is a collective term for a bunch of nuts?
> "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net>
>
> > Ceres was worshipped because she abolished
> > that beastly way of feeding on acorns.
"David L. Webb" <david....@dartmouth.edu> wrote
> H.l.a.s. anti-Stratfordians such as yourself have certainly
> insured that this year's mast harvest is especially abundant.
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All this long harangue (which might very well have been spared) our
knight delivered because the ACORNS they gave him reminded him of
the golden age; and the whim seized him to address all this unnecessary
argument to the goatherds, who listened to him gaping in amazement
without saying a word in reply. Sancho likewise held his peace and
ate ACORNS, and paid repeated visits to the second wine-skin,
which they had hung up on a cork tree to keep the wine cool.
CHAPTER XI Of What Befell Don Quixote with Certain Goatherds
---------------------------------------------------------------
> > P.S. Why don't you Priory guys just give back the painting, Dave?
"David L. Webb" <david....@dartmouth.edu> wrote
> The Grand Master has his reasons, Art. [Hint: I'm about
> to leave on an important mission for a week.]
----------------------------------------------------------
<<Bobo-Fett: When Mr. Burns was longing for his teddy bear, Bobo, Professor
Frink came up with a replacement Teddy Bear. Although the bear was designed
to be cute and cuddly, and do a little dance, the invention backfired and
went on a tirade.>>
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Art Neuendorffer
David L. Webb
"Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net>
(aneuendor...@comicass.nut) wrote:
And you don't believe that the similarity is pure coincidence, Art?
[...]
> November 12, 1923, Adolf Hitler arrested for his role in a would-be
> coup to overthrow the Bavarian government.
>
> November 12, 1660, John Bunyan arrested for unlicensed preaching
> in Bedfordshire. He was imprisoned for 12 years.
>
> November 12, 1940, Walt Disney releases Fantasia.
>
> http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/1112.htm
What is the supposed connection between Hitler's arrest and Walt
Disney's release of "Fantasia," Art? Inquiring minds want to know.
[...]
> > > as a starting point. Incidentally, Art, have you figured out yet who
> > > Jean Cocteau's successors were and are?
> Whoever he is I hope he is enjoying the Madonna with the Yarnwinder:
He/she is.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Art Neuendorffer (aneuendor...@comcast.net)
> Subject: Re: spindle of a spinning wheel for its mast
> Newsgroups: humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare
> Date: 2003-08-29 09:17:14 PST
>
> > > > > lyra wrote
> -------------------------------
> > > > > > "Da Vinci painting stolen from Scottish castle
> > > > > >
> > > > > > A Leonardo da Vinci painting, the Madonna with the Yarnwinder,
> > > > > > has been stolen from Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland.
> > > > > > Police said the painting was stolen at about 11am when thieves,
> posing
> > > > > > as visitors to the castle, overpowered a female guide and took it
> from
> > > > > > where it was displayed in the castle's staircase hall.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Detectives said they are looking for four men seen driving a white
> > > > > > Volkswagen Golf Gti in the area around the time the painting was
> > > > > > stolen.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > They also released descriptions of two men seen near the castle
> > > > > > at the time of the theft. Both men are said to be in their
> forties,
> > > > > > about 5ft 10 tall, slim and clean shaven.
Couldn't be me, Art -- I'm almost half a foot taller and have a
beard. (Do you know where the painting is now, Art?)
Did you get your postcard from Finland, Art?
[...]
Art Neuendorffer
> >
> > > >>>> A ballow is a cudgel.
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > > >> "lyra" <mountai...@RockAthens.com> wrote
> > > >>
> > > >>> ballow \Bal"low\, n. A cudgel. [Obs.] --Shak.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
> > > >>
> > > >>> Ballow is also a surname
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > > > "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > > >> see bellow:
> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >> _Finnegans Wake_:
> > > >> "nor avoice from afire BELLOWSED MISHE MISHE . . ."
> > > >>
> > > >> ['MISHE MISHE' is Gaelic for: 'I AM THAT I AM']
> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > > <david....@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > > Excellent, Art! And "Misha Mysh'" is Russian for Mickey Mouse.
> > > > I'm sure that you can apply your usual methods to discoVER
> > > > Walt Disney's role in the Masonic conspiracy, Art;
> "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net>
"David L. Webb" <david....@dartmouth.edu> wrote
> And you don't believe that the similarity is pure coincidence, Art?
No, Dave.
> "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net>
"David L. Webb" <david....@dartmouth.edu> wrote
> Couldn't be me, Art -- I'm almost half a foot taller and have a
> beard. (Do you know where the painting is now, Art?)
So who's the short guy teaching Algebraic K-theory at Dartmouth?
> > > > Neuendorffer wrote:
> >
............................................................................
> > > > > > http://www.abcgallery.com/L/leonardo/leonardo29.html
> > > > > > http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/yarnwinder.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > <<This painting is sometimes called Madonna of the Spindle
> > > > > > or the Madonna with the Distaff.
>>
> > > > > > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > > - Manly P. Hall, Masonic, Hermetic, Quabbalistic & Rosicrucian
> > > > > > <<The office of Nautonnier or Navigator, is symbolized by the
> > > > > > boat of Isis. "Isis holds in her right hand a small sailing
ship
> > > > > > with the spindle of a spinning wheel for its mast.>>
>
> > > > "David L. Webb" <David....@Dartmouth.edu> wrote
> > > >
> > > > > I trust that you're aware, Art, that "mast"
> > > > > is a collective term for a bunch of nuts?
>
> > > "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net>
> > >
> > > > Ceres was worshipped because she abolished
> > > > that beastly way of feeding on acorns.
>
> > "David L. Webb" <david....@dartmouth.edu> wrote
> >
> > > H.l.a.s. anti-Stratfordians such as yourself have certainly
> > > insured that this year's mast harvest is especially abundant.
> "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > All this long harangue (which might very well have been spared) our
> > knight delivered because the ACORNS they gave him reminded him of
> > the golden age; and the whim seized him to address all this unnecessary
> > argument to the goatherds, who listened to him gaping in amazement
> > without saying a word in reply. Sancho likewise held his peace and
> > ate ACORNS, and paid repeated visits to the second wine-skin,
> > which they had hung up on a cork tree to keep the wine cool.
> >
> > CHAPTER XI Of What Befell Don Quixote with Certain Goatherds
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > P.S. Why don't you Priory guys just give back the painting, Dave?
> >
> > "David L. Webb" <david....@dartmouth.edu> wrote
> >
> > > The Grand Master has his reasons, Art. [Hint: I'm about
> > > to leave on an important mission for a week.]
>
"David L. Webb" <david....@dartmouth.edu> wrote
> Did you get your postcard from Finland, Art?
Finland, Dave?
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Historical Depictions of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake
by Jan T. Kozak & Charles D. James
<<Although not the strongest or most deadly earthquake in human history,
the 1755 Lisbon earthquake's impact, not only on Portugal but on all of
Europe, was profound and lasting. Depictions of the earthquake in art
and literature can be found in several European countries, and these
were produced and reproduced for centuries following the event,
which came to be known as "The Great Lisbon Earthquake."
The oscillation of suspended objects at great distances from the
epicenter indicate an enormous area of perceptibility. The observation
of seiches as far away as Finland, suggest a magnitude approaching 9.0.
Precursory phenomena were reported, including turbid waters in Portugal
and Spain, falling water level in wells in Spain, and a decrease in
water flow in springs and fountains.>>
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Art Neuendorffer
Art Neuendorffer
> > November 12, 1923, Adolf Hitler arrested for his role in a would-be
> > coup to overthrow the Bavarian government.
> >
> > November 12, 1660, John Bunyan arrested for unlicensed preaching
> > in Bedfordshire. He was imprisoned for 12 years.
> >
> > November 12, 1940, Walt Disney releases Fantasia.
> >
> > http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/1112.htm
"David L. Webb" <david....@dartmouth.edu> wrote
> What is the supposed connection between Hitler's arrest and Walt
> Disney's release of "Fantasia," Art? Inquiring minds want to know.
It meant that Hitler & Disney were bombing in London about the same time.
------------------------------------------------
Schickelgruber:
died april 30, 1945
born april 20, 1889
-----------------------
10 days + 56 years
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Disney:
died December 15, 1966
born December 5, 1901
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10 days + 65 years
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Donald Duck once worked in a Nazi munitions factory:
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http://www.geocities.com/derfuehrerspage/dff.htm
A german "oom-pah" band parades through town extolling the "virtues"
of the Fuehrer with the title song. They awaken Donald Duck who has
to go to work in a Nazi munitions factory, much to his regret.
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When der Fuehrer says, "We ist der master race"
We HEIL! HEIL! Right in der Fuehrer's face
Not to love Der Fuehrer is a great disgrace
So we HEIL! HEIL! Right in der Fuehrer's face
When Herr Göbbels says, "We own der world und space"
We HEIL! HEIL! Right in Herr Göbbels' face
When Herr Göring says they'll never bomb this place
We HEIL! HEIL! Right in Herr Göring's face
Are we not the supermen
Aryan pure supermen
Ja we ist der supermen
Super-duper supermen.
Ist this Nutzi land not good?
Would you leave it if you could?
Ja this Nutzi land is good!
Vee would leave it if we could
We bring the world to order
Heil Hitler's new world order
Everyone of foreign race will love der Fuehrer's face
When we bring to der world disorder
When der Fuehrer says, "We ist der master race"
We HEIL! HEIL! Right in der Fuehrer's face
Not to love Der Fuehrer is a great disgrace
So we HEIL! HEIL! Right in der Fuehrer's face
So we HEIL! HEIL! Right in der Fuehrer's face
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Despite tremendous literary & financial success, William Sydney Porter
was a singularly unhappy man. He died an alcoholic on June 4, 1910
in a New York City hospital with 23 cents in his pocket.
His final words were:
"Turn up the lights; I don't want to go home in the dark."
In 1896, Porter was charged with embezzlement from First National Bank
where he had worked as a teller two years earlier.
The somewhat suspicious charges were for misappropriation of:
$554.48 on October 10, 1894;
$299.60 on November 12, 1894;
and $299.60 on November 12, 1895.
$299.60 = 40 x 7.49
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November 12 (7 x 7=49 days left in year)
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1660, John Bunyan was arrested for unlicensed preaching in Bedfordshire.
He was imprisoned for 12 years.
1923, Adolf Hitler was arrested for his role in a would-be coup to
overthrow the Bavarian government.
1940, Walt Disney releases Fantasia.
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http://www.dailyalmanacs.com/almanac2/november/1112.html
http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/1112.htm
1483 - Martin Luther born
1759 - Freemason Freidrich von Schiller ("Ode am Freude") born
1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (suffragist) born
1817 - Mirza Husayn Ali (founder of Bah'i faith) born
1833 - Aleksandr Borodin (Russian composer & org. chemist) born
1840 - Auguste Rodin (French sculptor) born
1841 - Lord Rayleigh (physicist/chancellor of Cambridge) born
1866 - Sun Yat-sen (father of modern China) born
1914 - "Professor" Irwin Corey born
1927 - Joseph Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union.
1035 - Canute "The Great", Viking king of Engl/Den/Nor dies at 39
1555 - Stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65
1595 - John Hawkins, English navigator/treasurer of the Navy, dies at 63
1671 - Thomas, 3rd baron Fairfax of Cameron, English general, dies at 59
1918 - Habsburg empire ends
1981 - Harry Von Zell, US TV host (Burns & Allen), dies
<<On this day in 1701, the Carolina Assembly passed a Vestry Act making
the Church of England the official religion of the Carolina Colony.
(Strong opposition by Quakers and other resident Nonconformists forced
the colony's proprietors to revoke their legislation two years later.)>>
<<On this night in 1782, John Goodricke, an adolescent deafmute English
astronomer, posed the notion that the dimming of the magnitude of the
"Demon Star" Algol in Perseus for five hours every 2 days, 11 hours,
was caused by its being eclipsed by an orbiting darker companion star.
Goodricke died at age 20.>>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Habsburg (1282 - November 12, 1918)
From Wikipedia, http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg
<<Habsburg (or Hapsburg) was the name of one of the ruling houses of
Europe: rulers of Austria (as dukes 1282 - 1453, archdukes 1453 - 1804,
and emperors 1804 - 1918), kings of Spain (1516 - 1700), and Holy Roman
Emperors for several centuries to 1806. The name is derived from the
Swiss Habichtsburg (Hawk Castle), the family seat in the 12th and 13th
centuries at Habsburg, Switzerland. From South-East-Germany the family
extended its influence and holdings to the eastern reaches of the Holy
Roman Empire, roughly today's Austria (1278 - 1382). Within only two or
three generations, the Habsburgs had managed to secure an initially
intermittent grasp on the imperial throne that would last for centuries
(1273 - 1291, 1298 - 1308, 1438 - 1740, and 1745 - 1806).
After the marriage of Maximilian I. with Mary, heiress of Burgundy (the
Low Countries) and the marriage of his son Philipp the Fair with Juana,
heiress of Spain and its newly-founded empire,
Charles V inherited an empire where the sun does not set.
Upon the abdication of the Emperor Charles V, also King Charles I
of Spain (1516 - 1556), the family split into the Austrian Habsburgs
and the Spanish Habsburgs.
By the turn of the 19th century, Habsburg power had waned
significantly. The Spanish line died out in 1700, and in 1806 the Holy
Roman Empire was wound up under the French Emperor Napoleon I's
reorganisation of Germany. In Austria, however, the Habsburgs maintained
their hold, declaring themselves Emperors of Austria two years after
Napoleon declared himself Emperor of France in 1804.
Emperor Francis I of Austria used the official great title: "We,
Francis the First, by the grace of God Emperor of Austria; King of
Jerusalem, Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, and
Lodomiria; Archduke of Austria; Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Würzburg,
Franconia, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola ; Grand Duke of Cracow;
Prince of Transylvania; Margrave of Moravia; Duke of Sandomir, Masovia,
Lublin, Upper and Lower Silesia, Auschwitz and Zator, Teschen, and
Friule; Prince of Berchtesgaden and Mergentheim; Princely Count of
Habsburg, Gorizia, and Gradisca and of the Tyrol;
and Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and Istria".
Hungary, nominally under Habsburg kingship from 1526 but mostly under
Ottoman Turkish occupation for 150 years, was reconquered in 1683 -
1699, the Habsburgs remaining kings of Hungary under an 1867 autonomy
arrangement (see Austria-Hungary) until their deposition in both Austria
and Hungary in 1918 following defeat in World War I.>>
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<<"Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings.
For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven,
earth and sea obey".
So spoke King Canute the Great, the legend says, seated on his throne on
the seashore, waves lapping round his feet. Canute had learned that his
flattering courtiers claimed he was "So great, he could command the
tides of the sea to go back". Now Canute was not only a religious man,
but also a clever politician. He knew his limitations - even if his
courtiers did not - so he had his throne carried to the seashore and sat
on it as the tide came in, commanding the waves to advance no further.
When they didn't, he had made his point that, though the deeds of kings
might appear 'great' in the minds of men, they were as nothing in the
face of God's power.>>
'THE KING WHO COULD NOT STOP THE SEA
BUT STEMMED THE VIKING TIDE ON ENGLAND'S SHORES'
http://viking.no/e/people/e-knud.htm by Barrie Markham Rhodes
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http://www.ccnet.com/~laplaza/calhist2.htm
<<In 1602, SEBASTIAN Vizcaino was directed to take three ships up the
California coast to find a hospitable port for the Philippine ships.
His voyage is remarkable for the place names that date from it.
Vizcaino named San Diego because he arrived there on the feast day
of San Diego de Alcala (November 12). He also named San Clemente,
Catalina, Santa Barbara, Point Concepcion, Carmel, Monterey
(after the viceroy Conde de Monterey who sponsored the voyage),
and Ano Nuevo. Although Cabrillo had named many of these sites
60 years earlier, Vizcaino's voyage was better published
and his names remain. Vizcaino also visited Cermenon's
San Francisco Bay (Drakes Bay) and one of his ships
went as far north as the Oregon border.>>
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http://smrtbloned.blogspot.com/2002_11_03_smrtbloned_archive.html
<<Didacus (Diego) of Alcala was a native of the little town of San
Nicolas of del Puerto in the diocese of Seville, and his parents were
poor folk. Near that town a holy priest led an eremitical life. Didacus
obtained his consent to live with him and, though very young, he
imitated the austerities and devotions of his master. They cultivated
together a little garden, and also employed themselves in making wooden
spoons, trenchers and such like utensils. After having lived thus a
recluse for some years he was obliged to return to his home, but he soon
after went to a convent of the Observant Friar Minors at Arrizafa, and
there took the habit among the lay brothers. After his profession he was
sent to the mission of his Order in the Canary Islands, where he did a
great work in instructing and converting the people.
Eventually, in 1445, he, though a lay brother, was appointed chief
guardian of a chief convent in those islands, called Fuerteventura.
After four years he was recalled to Spain, and lived in several friaries
about Seville with great fervor and recollection. In the year 1450 a
jubilee was celebrated at Rome and, St. Bernardine of Siena being
canonized at the same time, very many religious of the Order of St.
Francis were assembled there. Didacus went there with Father Alonzo de
Castro, and at Rome he had to attend his companion during a dangerous
illness. His devotion in this duty attracted the notice of his superiors
and he was put in charge of the many sick friars who were accommodated
in the infirmary of the convent of Ara Caeli. St. Didacus was thus
engaged for three months, and is said to have miraculously restored some
of his patients. He lived for another thirteen years after his return to
Spain, chiefly at the Friaries of Salcedo and Alcala in Castille.
In 1463 he was taken ill at Alcala and in his last moments asked for a
cord (such as the Friars wear); he put it about his neck and, holding a
cross in his hands begged the pardon of all his brethren assembled about
his bed. Then, fixing his eyes on the crucifix, he repeated with great
tenderness the words of the hymn on the cross, "Dulce lignum, dulces
clavos, dulce pondus sustinet", and peacefully died on November 12.
Several miracles were attributed to him in his lifetime and many more
through his intercession after his death. King Philip II, out of
gratitude for one in favor of his son, solicitated the saint's
canonization which was decreed in 1588. His feast day is Nov. 13th.
How did San Diego acquire its name? On September 28, 1542, Juan
Rodriguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese explorer, landed in what is now San
Diego Bay and claimed the area for Spain. He named the port San Miguel,
in honor of St. Michael the ArchAngel whose feast day was the 29th.
On November 10, 1602, Sebastian Vizcaino sailed into the bay and
renamed it San Diego in honor of San Diego de Alcala (St. Didacus).
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Avoiding Plagiarism Is Pretty Much Impossible by Ed Quillen
http://www.custerguide.com/quillen/.\eqcols\1987A022.htm
<< In 1624, Robert Burton,
in the "Anatomy of Melancholy," wrote that
"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant
may see farther than the giant himself."
Burton attributed that to Didacus Stella, a Roman writer of about 50
A.D., but those sentiments appear nowhere in Stella's works. The
earliest use appears to be Bertrand of Chartres in 1126, who observed
that "In comparison with the ancients, we stand like dwarfs on the
shoulders of giants.">>
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http://www.britannia.com/history/f-tresham.html
<<Francis Tresham (1567 - 22 December 1605) was arrested on 12
November. The following day, he wrote a long five page statement in his
own hand of his relations with the conspirators, including his
introduction to the plot by Catesby, and that he had been guilty of
concealment, but had tried to have the plot postponed until after the
present sitting of parliament to see how the Catholic's would fare under
the new recusancy laws. On 29 November 1605, he confessed his own and
Father Henry Garnet's complicity in the Spanish Treason. In the end,
Tresham died in the Tower without having ever been publicly examined. It
is not known if he died of a strangury (an acute and painful
inflammation of the urinary tract resulting in retention of fluid), or
that he was helped on to his death by the hand of those who, after
forcing him to do what he did for them, did not wish that he should say
anything more, or to reward him as he deserved. Certainly he was
attended in his last days by a number of physicians, all of whom
corroborated the governments statement as to his death, and his wife
Anne. Knowing he was about to die, he dictated to William Vavasour, his
servant, a declaration denying Garnet's knowledge of Wintour's mission
to Spain. Vavasour had also transcribed a copy of Blackwell's "Treatise
of Equivocation" for Tresham, an issue that Garnet was confronted with
at his own trial. Although he had not been indicted, he was treated as a
traitor; he was attainted with the other conspirators, and his goods and
land forfeited. Speculation still surrounds the death of Tresham even to
this day. Francis Edwards, SJ, is one of several leading scholars who
support the theory that Tresham did not perhaps die in the Tower, and
was allowed to escape to Spain, where he travelled under the alias
Matthew Brunninge.>>
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Rushton Triangular Lodge
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<<Reputed meeting place of the Gunpowder plot conspirators. Through a
letter of warning written by Tresham to a peer, the plot was exposed.
Catesby was killed and the others taken prisoner when they were too weak
or badly wounded to fight any longer. All were executed on 31 st January
1606 except for Francis Tresham. He was sent to the Tower of London but
not harshly treated. When he died shortly afterwards poison was
suspected but never proved.>>
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1373/n3_v46/18099925/p2/article.jhtml?term=
http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/notable%20houses/rushton%20lodge.htm
<<The Triangular Lodge went up between 1593 and 1597. By this time Sir
Thomas felt increasingly victimised - his Catholicism, with the
penalties attendant on it, was a major factor in this. The Lodge is an
allegory on the Trinity and the forbidden Mass. It is built in two
different coloured limestones, to a plan based on an equilateral
triangle. Each side is thirty-three feet and four inches long (i.e.
one-third of a hundred) and the inscriptions on each side contain
thirty-three letters. There are three windows in each of the three
floors and, whenever appropriate, the trefoil which features in the
Tresham coat of arms comes into its own as yet another symbol of the
Trinity. in the trefoil over the door is the motto Tres testimonium dant
(There are three that bear witness) from the first Epistle of St. John.
Everywhere space was found for inscriptions and the emblems or conceits
which were so fashionable at the time. They were intended to convey a
meaning in a more or less disguised form. Where there are layers of
meaning, as in the Tresham buildings, it is likely that some of the
clues still remain unravelled. At the Lodge, Mass was symbolised by the
Lamb and Cross and the Chalice. One inscription is taken from the
preface to the canon of the Mass. Of all Sir Thomas' architectural
creations, the Lodge is the most detailed and complete.>>
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Alexander Porphyrievich Borodin
http:/webserver.rcds.rye.ny.us/id/Music/Borodin%20page/Borodin.html
Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin was born Tuesday, November 12, 1833 in
Georgia, the illegitimate son of a serf and a Georgian prince. His
mother later married a retired doctor, and Alexander was brought up in
St. Petersburg with a good education. He got into the Academy of
Medicine in St. Petersburg in 1850 where he studied to become a
scientist. From 1864 until his death in 1887, he was a professor of
chemistry at the St. Petersburg Military Academy; he both taught and
did research. He worked hard to establish a medical school for women in
Russia. Women were not admitted to the Academy, although there was some
relaxation of the restrictions during the more liberal 1860's. Borodin's
laboratory became the first place women were legally allowed to study
medicine, but the right was eventually revoked by order of the
repressive regime of Tsar Alexander III.
He showed an early interest in music, and from a young age played the
flute and piano. He wrote a piano duet at the age of nine. After
graduation from the Medical Academy, he fell under the influence of
the Russian composer Mily Balakirev and studied composition with him.
Balakirev, Bodorin, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Cesar Cui, and Modest
Mussorgsky became known as the Mighty Five or the Mighty Bunch in St.
Petersburg cultural circles in the 1860's. They started the Free Music
Academy, advocating music education for everyone, in opposition to
the "official" Academy of Music in St. Petersburg, founded by Anton
Rubenstein and supported by the imperial government. As nationalism
swept across the European continent and elsewhere, the Mighty Five,
along with artists and musicians all over Russia, wanted to create art
and music that was distinctly Russian, turning away from the influences
of western Europe. While many composers at the time, like Tchaikovsky
and Rimsky-Korsakov, drew on Russian folk melodies for inspiration,
Borodin did not; but he related his music to images of Russian places
and themes.
His friend Nikolai Rimsky-Korsokov said about Borodin: "Borodin was an
exceedingly cordial and cultured man, pleasant and oddly witty to talk
with. On visiting him I often found him working in the laboratory which
adjoined his apartment. When he sat over his retorts filled with some
colourless gas and distilled it by means of a tube from one vessel
into another, I used to tell him that he was transfusing emptiness
into vacancy."
Borodin dropped dead of a stroke at a party Monday,
February 28, 1887 in St. Petersburg, Russia.>>
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Art Neuendorffer
David L. Webb
"Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net>
(aneuendor...@comicass.nut) wrote:
There is only one possible response, Art:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
> > "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net>
>
> > > November 12, 1923, Adolf Hitler arrested for his role in a would-be
> > > coup to overthrow the Bavarian government.
> > >
> > > November 12, 1660, John Bunyan arrested for unlicensed preaching
> > > in Bedfordshire. He was imprisoned for 12 years.
> > >
> > > November 12, 1940, Walt Disney releases Fantasia.
> > >
> > > http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/1112.htm
> > What is the supposed connection between Hitler's arrest and Walt
> > Disney's release of "Fantasia," Art? Inquiring minds want to know.
Well? What IS the supposed connection, Art? Inquiring minds are
still left unsatisfied.
Couldn't be me, Art -- I'm not short, nor have I eVER taught
algebraic K-theory. You are misinformed, as usual.
Yes, Art; Finland.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Historical Depictions of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake
> by Jan T. Kozak & Charles D. James
>
> <<Although not the strongest or most deadly earthquake in human history,
> the 1755 Lisbon earthquake's impact, not only on Portugal but on all of
> Europe, was profound and lasting. Depictions of the earthquake in art
> and literature can be found in several European countries, and these
> were produced and reproduced for centuries following the event,
> which came to be known as "The Great Lisbon Earthquake."
>
> The oscillation of suspended objects at great distances from the
> epicenter indicate an enormous area of perceptibility. The observation
> of seiches as far away as Finland, suggest a magnitude approaching 9.0.
> Precursory phenomena were reported, including turbid waters in Portugal
> and Spain, falling water level in wells in Spain, and a decrease in
> water flow in springs and fountains.>>
Oh, I know you got the one from Lisbon, but that's long past, and in
any case it predated the Priory's safe bestowal of the painting. I'm
asking whether you received the one from Finland.
Art Neuendorffer
> > > >
> > > > "David L. Webb" <david....@dartmouth.edu> wrote
> > > >
> > > > > The Grand Master has his reasons, Art. [Hint: I'm about
> > > > > to leave on an important mission for a week.]
> > >
> > "David L. Webb" <david....@dartmouth.edu> wrote
>
> > > Did you get your postcard from Finland, Art?
> "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net>
> > Finland, Dave?
"David L. Webb" <david....@dartmouth.edu> wrote
> Yes, Art; Finland.
Not yet.