with his court so GRAY and his haunts IN
Art Neuendorffer
GREYHOUND has no connection with the colour GREY.
It is the GRAYhound, or hound which hunts the GRAY or badger
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<<And so down to the heart of [Stratford] the nexus of buildings
dominated by the GREY-stone tower of the Gild-Chapel built by
Hugh Clopton. When Leland was here,
'about the body of this chapel was
curiously painted the Dance of Death.'
The interior was sadly ravaged by the Reformation - paintings
white-washed. We have with much effort recovered something
of the painted DOOM upon the chancel-arch.>>
_William Shakespeare, a biography_ by A.L. Rowse. p. 18
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_Ulysses_ by Joyce
Their WIGS to show the GREY matter. Brains on their sleeve like the
statue in Glasnevin. Believe he does some literary work for the Express
with Gabriel Conroy. Wellread fellow. Myles Crawford began on the
Independent. Funny the way those newspaper men VEER about
when they get wind of a new opening.
. . . . . .
He turned abruptly his GREY searching eyes from the sea
to Stephen's face.
-- The aunt thinks you killed your mother, he said.
That's why she won't let me have anything to do with you.
-- Someone killed her, Stephen said gloomily.
-- You could have knelt down, damn it, Kinch, when your dying mother
asked you, Buck Mulligan said. I'm hyperborean as much as you. But to
think of your mother begging you with her last breath to kneel down and
pray for her. And you refused. There is something sinister in you....
He broke off and lathered again lightly his farther cheek.
A tolerant smile curled his lips.
-- But a lovely mummer! he murmured to himself.
Kinch, the loveliest mummer of them all!
Buck Mulligan attacked the hollow beneath his underlip.
-- The mockery of it, he said contentedly. Secondleg they should be.
God knows what poxy bowsy left them off. I have a lovely pair with
a hair stripe, GREY. You'll look spiffing in them. I'm not joking,
Kinch. You look damn well when you're dressed.
-- Thanks, Stephen said. I can't wear them if they are GREY.
-- He can't wear them, Buck Mulligan told his face in the mirror.
He kills his mother but he can't wear GREY trousers.
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Can't wear GREY until a year & a day: June 24, 1904
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BloomsDay of James Joyce's _Ulysses_:
Thursday June 16, 1904 exactly 301 (52 week "years")
after Oxford's death Thursday June 24, 1604
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James Joyce's _Finnegans Wake_ p. 31
Holybones of Saint Hubert how our red brother of Pour-
ingrainia would audibly fume did he know that we have for sur-
trusty bailiwick a turnpiker who is by turns a pikebailer no sel-
domer than an earwigger For he kinned Jom Pill
with his court so gray and his haunts in his house in the mourning.
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with his court so GRAY and his haunts IN
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<<The early Elizabethan drama owed much stimulus to the performance
by barristers of plays in their halls at festive seasons. It was in the
Hall of the Inner Temple on Twelfth Night, 1561, that the first English
tragedy, Gorboduc, which was written by two members of the Inn,
was first acted. Again, the first regular English comedy,
_Supposes_, was first acted in GRAY's Inn Hall, five years later,
the authors, George Gascoigne & Francis Kilwelmershe, being
both students of the Society. It was for a Christmas revel at
the Middle Temple that Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night; and
The Comedy of Errors certainly played in GRAY's Inn Hall in 1594
in the intervals of 'dancing & revelry with gentlewomen'.>>
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GRYPHON, n. [OE. GRIFFIN, griffon, griffoun, F. griffon, fr. L.
gryphus, equiv to GRYPS] 1. (Myth.) A fabulous monster, half lion &
half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian & Roman works of art.
THE GRIFFIN of GRAY's Inn
http://www.online-law.co.uk/bar/grays_inn/griffin.html
The arms of the Society are - Sable a Griffin sergeant
or, that is a golden griffin standing on a black field.
It is thought to be borrowed from Richard Aungier, thrice
Treasurer of the Inn, at the turn of the sixteenth
century, and it is a more spectacular heraldic device
than the plain bars of the de GREY arms which were
previously used - they may be seen above the main
entrance to the Treasury Office in South Square. A GRIFFIN
is the offspring of a lion and eagle with the body of
the former and the head and shoulders of the latter,
but 'also with animal ears. It is sacred to the SUN, being
seen, for example, on the Temple of Apollo at Miletus
and was used by the ancients to guard TREASURE.
GRAY's Inn Alumnae:
Sir William Cecil (*TREASUREr* / Secret Service);
Sir Francis Walsingham ( Secret Service )
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Admitted to GRAY's Inn
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Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford 1567 age 17
Francis Bacon Sept. 1576 age 15
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd E. of Southampton: July 1590 age 17
Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland: Feb. 1598 age 21
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Australian Rivers
http://www.nativefish.asn.au/ozrivers.html
MURRAY [Amelia Ann Murray, Elizabeth Vere's granddaughter]
[James Stuart, 1st earl of Murray]
DARLING [Peter Pan's Wendy]
CAMPASPE [Play of 5th best John Lyly]
LATROBE
ALICE [Alice Spencer, Elizabeth Vere's sister-in-law]
SWAN/AVON
DE GREY [of GRAY's Inn]
WILTON [Pembrooke home to Swan of Avon's "ELSA": Mary Sidney]
GASCOYNE [7th best for Comedy]
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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21).
Volume III. Renascence and Reformation.
X. George Gascoigne. § 2. The Posies.
<<The edition of 1575 recounts Gascoigne's experiences of war
and imprisonment in Holland. Die groene Hopman, as the Dutch
called him, was not well regarded by the burghers, and the dislike was
mutual. Gascoigne ascribes the distrust of those to whom, according to
his own account, he rendered valiant and repeated service, to a love
affair with a lady in the Spanish camp; but it was, perhaps, also due to
his eagerness to make himself acquainted with the burghers' affairs and
to the "Cartes . Mappes . and Models" which he offers to lay before lord
GREY of WILTON in explanation of "Hollandes State". Gascoigne's poems
on his adventures in the Low Countries throw some remarkable sidelights
on the relations between the burghers and their English allies.>>
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<<_A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in
Morel's Skin for her Good Behavior_ (c. 1560). The sub-plot of
romantic wooing bears a resemblance to Ariosto's _I Suppositi_
translated by George [G]asco[i]gne as _I Supposes_ (1566).>>
A performance of [G]asco[i]gne's _I Supposes_
took place 5 weeks before de Vere entered [G]ray's [i]nn.
(GRAY's Inn was only ½ mile from his home at Cecil House.)
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[G]ray's [i]nn [shReW]
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The Names of the Principall Actors in all these Playes.
<= [4 x 4 x 4 - 3 x 3 x 3] =>
333 Letters [= 9 x 37 (plays)]
WilliamShakespeareRichardBurbadgeJ o hn
HemmingsAugustinePhillipsWilliamKe m pt
ThomasPoopeGeorgeBryanHenryCondell W il
liamSlyeRichardCowlyJohnLowineSamu e ll
CrosseAlexanderCookeSamuelGilburne R ob
ertArminWilliamOstlerNathanFieldJo h nU
nderwoodNicholasTooleyWilliamEccle s to
neJosephTaylorRobertBenfieldRobert G ou
gheRichardRobinsonJohnShanckeJohnR i ce
8 W**** 's
37 e 's
26 R 's
18 h 's
17 s 's
raw probability of "shReW" in 9 x 37 array ~ 1 / 5,000
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Where did WSC and Roosevelt first meet?
GRAY's Inn, London (July 29, 1918)
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_Knights of the Helmet_ by Martin Pares
http://hiwaay.net/~paul/bacon/devices/gestaintro.html
<<Their device was to turn GRAY's Inn, "with the consent & advice of
the Readers & Ancients," into the semblance of a court & kingdom,
and to entertain each other during the twelve days of Christmas licence
with playing at kings & counsellors. They proceeded accordingly to
elect a prince -- the Prince of Purpoole. . .>>
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Abbey of (THELEM)e <=> (HELMET) knights
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<<_Gargantua_'s last major episode centres on:
the erection of the Abbey of Theleme,
a monastic institution that rejects poverty, celibacy & obedience;
instead it welcomes wealth & the well-born, praises
the aristocratic life, and rejoices in good marriages.>>
-- Encyclopedia Britannica
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<<The man who accompanied him
was apparently his servant; he rode a shaggy little GREY pony,
had a blue bonnet on his head, and a large check NAPKIN folded
about his neck, wore a pair of long blue worsted hose instead of
boots, had his gloveless hands much stained with tar, and
observed an air of deference and respect towards his companion,
but without any of those indications of precedence and punctilio
which are preserved between the gentry and their domesties.>>
- _The Black Dwarf_ by Sir Walter Scott
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Portrait of the Artist - James Joyce
He tore a sheet from his scribbler and passed it down, whispering:
-- In case of necessity any layman or woman can do it. The formula which
he wrote obediently on the sheet of paper, the coiling and uncoiling
calculations of the professor, the spectre-like symbols of force and
velocity fascinated and jaded Stephen's mind. He had heard some say that
the old professor was an atheist freemason. O the GREY dull day! It
seemed a limbo of painless patient consciousness through which souls of
mathematicians might wander, projecting long slender fabrics from plane
to plane of ever rarer and paler twilight, radiating swift eddies to the
last VERGES of a UNIVERSE EVER vaster, farther and more impalpable.
-- So we must distinguish between elliptical and ellipsoidal. Perhaps
some of you gentlemen may be familiar with the works of Mr W. S.
Gilbert. In one of his songs he speaks of the BILLIARD sharp who
is condemned to play: On a cloth untrue With a twisted cue
And elliptical BILLIARD balls.
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GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Archives
From: Cathy Howell <cho...@TOGETHER.NET>
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 22:12:06 -0700
<<There's a story about a supposed ancestress of the Counts of Anjou,
sometimes also called Melusine. Various versions have her the wife of
Geoffrey I "Grisegonelle"/"GREY Tunic"/"GREYgown" (Count of Anjou,
962-987) or of his son, Fulk III "Nerra"/"The Contrary" (Count of Anjou,
987-1040). This countess, perhaps Melusine, was supposed to be a
daughter of Satan. The Count of Anjou married his demon countess for her
beauty, and all seemed normal except that she never stayed until the end
of mass, slipping out before the elevation of the Host. The Count
became curious, and arranged for four of his men to stand so close to
her as to stand on the hem of her gown, thus preventing her from leaving
at the critical moment. The demon countess, foiled in her attempt to
avoid the sight of the body of Christ, shrieked in fear or pain,
wrenched herself free of her cloak, and flew out of the window
(taking two of her children with her), never to be seen again.
From the two of her children who remained behind were
descended the later Counts of Anjou. Hence the saying
"From the devil they came and to the devil they will return.">>
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IMPROVISE: O.E.D. cites a use in 1826 in the sense of "to
compose (verse, music, etc.) on the spur of the moment; to utter or
perform extempore." This use was by Disraeli in his novel VIVIAN GREY,
as follows: "He possessed also the singular faculty of being able to
IMPROVISE quotations." Disraeli was of Italian ancestry,
which may explain his apparent introduction of an Italian word.
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Picture of DORIAN GRAY - Oscar Wilde
<<I had drawn you as Paris in DAINTY armour,
and as Adonis with huntsman's cloak and polished BOAR-SPEAR.
Crowned with heavy lotus-blossoms you had sat on the prow
of ADRIAN's barge, gazing across the green turbid NILE.
You had leaned over the still pool of some Greek woodland and seen
in the water's SILENT SILVER the marvel of your own face.
Why should I not love her?
Harry, I do love her. She is everything to me in life.
Night after night I go to see her play. One evening she is Rosalind,
and the next evening she is Imogen. I have seen her die in the gloom
of an Italian tomb, sucking the POISON FROM HER LOVER'S LIPS.
I have watched her wandering through the FOREST of ARDEN,
disguised as a pretty boy in hose and doublet and DAINTY cap.
She has been mad, and has come into the presence of a guilty king,
and given him rue to wear and bitter herbs to taste of. >>
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CHAPTER XXXVIII.
MAKING them pens was a distressid tough job,
and so was the saw; and Jim allowed the in-
scription was going to be the toughest of all. That's
the one which the prisoner has to scrabble on the wall.
But he had to have it; Tom said he'd GOT to; there
warn't no case of a state prisoner not scrabbling his
inscription to leave behind, and his coat of arms.
"Look at Lady Jane GREY," he says; "look at
Gilford Dudley; look at old Northumberland!
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Gilford Dudley; look at old Northumberland!
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http://www.britannia.com/history/ladyjane/guildford.html
Father: John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland
Mother: Jane Guildford, Duchess of Northumberland
<<Born around 1534 and one of six brothers, Guildford was educated as
an athlete and a scholar. He married Lady Jane GREY on 25 May 1553
( the date may have been 21 May ) at nineteen years of age. Jane's
biographer's have painted the picture of a precocious, spoilt young man,
doted on by his parents and disinterested in his wife. Of the little
information we have of Guildford Dudley we do know Jane referred to his
aggressive temperament, and ill treatment of her when he learned she
would not crown him King. Guildford was taken into custody on 20 July
and imprisoned in the Beauchamp Tower. It was in this lodging that the
inscription, 'Jane' (pictured below) was found etched in the stone wall.
Many have seen this as a romantic gesture in reference to his young
wife. While it is possible that Guildford did do the etching, it should
also be remembered that his mother's name was also Jane.
Guildford was tried at Guildhall on 13 November 1553 and found guilty
of treason. On the morning of his execution, 12 February 1554, he was
refused the counsel of a Protestant minister and he turned down the
offer made by Dr Feckenham to accompany him. Most of Jane's
biographers report that Guildford wept on his way to Tower Hill.
At the scaffold, Guildford did not address the crowd. He knelt, said
his prayers, held up his hands to God and asked the people to pray for
him. Afterwards, his body was placed in a cart and taken back within the
confines of the Tower. He was laid to rest in the Chapel Royal of
St.Peter ad Vincula.>>
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Why, Huck, s'pose it IS considerble trouble? -- what you
going to do? -- how you going to get around it?
Jim's GOT to do his inscription and coat of arms. They all do."
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http://larae.net/photo/britain/tower/dudley.jpg
http://home.hiwaay.net/~crispen/tudor/tower/edward_vi.html
<<The man who took over as Lord Protector was John Dudley, Duke of
Northumberland. If Edward were to die, his older sister Mary, a staunch
Catholic, would rule and Northumberland would be ruined.
He therefore attempted to alter the succession by marrying one of his
5 sons to Lady Jane GREY, the staunchly Protestant granddaughter
of Henry VIII's younger sister Mary.
When Edward died Jane GREY was brought to the Tower to prepare for
her coronation by her father the Duke of Suffolk, and her father-in-law
But throughout the country Mary was being proclaimed as rightful Queen.
Soon Jane GREY's father, hoping to save himself, left the Tower
and went to Tower Hill to also proclaim Mary Queen.
Jane GREY remained in the Tower as a prisoner. She was moved from
the royal apartments to the house of a Gentleman Gaoler on the Green.
Northumberland was imprisoned in the Bloody Tower. He was then moved
to the Beauchamp Tower where 3 of his sons, including Jane's husband
Guilford Dudley, were locked up.
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_A Room of One's Own_ by Virginia Woolf
Yet her genius was for fiction and lusted to feed abundantly
upon the lives of men and women and the study of their ways. At last -
for she was very young, oddly like Shakespeare the poet in her face,
with the same GREY EYES and rounded brows - at last Nick Greene
the actor-manager took pity on her; she found herself with child by that
gentleman and so - who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's
heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? - killed herself one
winter's night and lies buried at some crossroads where the omnibuses
now stop outside the Elephant & Castle.>>
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THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.
THE ARGUMENT.
THE Gods in council sit, to call
Ulysses from Calypso's thrall,
And order their high pleasures thus:
GREY Pallas to Telemachus
(In Ithaca) her way addrest;
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http://members.nbci.com/book_archive/00/gk/homer/07.html
<<Athene shed a deep MIST about Odysseus for the favour that she bare
him, lest any of the Phaeacians, high of heart, should meet him and mock
him in sharp speech, and ask him who he was. But when he was now about
to enter the pleasant city, then the goddess, GREY-eyed Athene, met him,
in the fashion of a young maiden carrying a pitcher, and she stood over
against him, and goodly Odysseus inquired of her: Now the steadfast
goodly Odysseus went through the hall, clad in a thick MIST, which
Athene shed around him, till he came to ARETE and the king Alcinous.
And Odysseus cast his hands about the KNEES of ARETE, and then
it was that the wondrous MIST melted from off him, and a silence
fell on them that were within the house at the sight of him,
and they marvelled as they beheld him.>>
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Daniel Defoe "wanted poster" discription:
"a middle-sized spare man about 40 years old, of a brown complexion
and dark brown-coloured hair, but weares a WIG; A HOOKED NOSE,
a sharp chin, GREY EYES, and a large mole near his mouth."
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Shakespeare's _Poems_(1640) -- I. B.
HIS EVERLIVIN{G W}OR[kes]
{W}
VERONIH{I}LVERI(u)S
{G}
W I G , v. t. To censure or rebuke;
to hold up to reprobation; to scold.
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http://www.student.kun.nl/l.derooy/index.html?alice4.html
<<When Lewis Carroll wrote "Through the Looking Glass",
Tenniel objected to a chapter, so Carroll dropped the entire episode.
This chapter was called "A WASP in a WIG".
So now that I am old and GREY,
And all my hair is nearly gone,
They take my WIG from me and say
'How can you put such rubbish on?'
And still, whenever I appear,
They hoot at me and call me 'PIG!'
And that is why they do it, dear,
Because I wear a yellow WIG."
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Agnes GREY - Anne Bronte
With a little searching, I found these words in the fourth chapter.
When I came to the seventh verse she interrupted me, and, with
needless apologies for such a liberty, desired me to read it VERY
slowly, that she might take it all in, and dwell on EVERY WORD;
hoping I would excuse her, as she was but a 'simple body.'
'The wisest person,' I replied, 'might think OVER each of these
VERSES for an hour, and be all the better for it; and I would
rather read them slowly than not.'
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_Ivanhoe_ - Sir Walter Scott
<<If thou knowest ever a good lay, thou shalt be welcome
to a nook of pasty at Copmanhurst so long as I serve
the chapel of St Dunstan, which, please God, shall be
till I change my GREY covering for one of green turf.>>
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THE LORD COBHAM (THE LOLLARD) AFFAIR and GRUFFYDD VYCHAN
http://family-tree.hypermart.net/lord_cobham.htm
<<Sir Gruffydd was well respected and liked by his neighbours, but in
1447 he was suspected of holding correspondence with adherents to the
House of York and the then Queen, Margaret of Anjou, obtained a warrant
from the treasury and sent to Henry GREY, Earl of Powys to have him
arrested. Henry GREY was the son of Lord John GREY, Earl of Tankerville,
who would have been at Agincourt with Sir Gruffydd and who died in 1421.
Sir Gruffydd was summoned to the castle at Pool, thought to have been
named after the 'de la Pole' family related to Gwenwynwyn and later to
be changed to Welshpool, but refused to go at first as he had suspicions
of the outcome. He then received what he thought was a 'safe conduct'
promise and went, but on entering the courtyard was apprehended and
'beheaded on the spot without judge or jury' in the presence of Lord
GREY of Powys. This execution of a warrior well advanced in years, about
60, was very likely the violent act of an unbridled youth who thought
his dignity affronted and it has been suggested that Henry GREY thought
that Sir Gruffydd had some right to the Lordship of Powys and was glad
to get rid of him. He was buried under the Chancel in the Parish Church
at Welshpool and his name is on the board near the main door of
'Important People Interred in the Church'.>>
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http://www.ccnet.com/~laplaza/calhist2.htm
<<In the mission at Soledad in 1793, an Indian was buried with the notation
that his father had been killed by the American Captain GREY of The Lady
Washington at Nootka in 1789. This inauspicious beginning was the first
mention in Bancroft of Yankees on the West Coast, but whalers may have
visited sooner.>>
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The American Frontier and the Initiation Rite to a National Literature.
The Example of Edgar Huntly by Charles Brockden Brown
MICHELE BOTTALICO
It often excites new forms of psychological
terror, anticipating those evoked and analyzed by Hawthorne or Edgar
Allan Poe. For instance, in his pursuit of Clithero, Edgar suddenly
comes upon a GREY panther whose howl terrifies him:
His GRAY coat, extended claws, fiery eyes, and a cry which he at that
moment uttered, and which, by its resemblance to the human voice, is
peculiarly terrific, denoted him to be the most ferocious and untamable
of that detested race. . . .(EH 126)
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<<I have been passing my time very pleasurably here, But cheifly
in lounging on a sofa (a la the poet GREY) & reading Shakspeare.
It is an edition in glorious great type, every letter whereof is
a soldier, & the top of EVERy "t" like a MUSKET barrel.>>
--Melville Letter to publisher Evert Duyckinck (1849)
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<<BELOW in his hammock, Ahab did not hear of this till GREY dawn,
when he came to the deck; it was then recounted to him by FLASK, not
unaccompanied with hinted dark MEANINGs. He hollowly laughed,
and thus explained the wonder.>>
_Moby Dick_ Chap. 112 - THE BLACKSMITH
<<. . . the house was sold; the mother dived down into the long
church-yard grass; her children twice followed her thither; and the
houseless, familyless old man staggered off a VAGABOND in crape; his
every woe unreverenced; his GREY head a scorn to flaxen curls!>>
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"The Man in GREY" => James Mason's first major movie
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Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 4
MERCUTIO O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep;
Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders' legs,
The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
The traces of the smallest spider's web,
The collars of the moonshine's watery beams,
Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film,
Her wagoner a small GREY-coated gnat,
Not so big as a round little worm
Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid;
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.
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Don Quixote by Cervantes - Translated by John Ormsby
( PART 2 - CHAPTER XVIII )
They led Don Quixote into a room, and Sancho removed his armour,
leaving him in loose Walloon breeches and chamois-leather doublet, all
stained with the rust of his armour; his collar was a falling one of
scholastic cut, without STARCH or lace, his buskins buff-coloured, and
his shoes polished. He wore his good sword, which hung in a baldric of
sea-wolf's skin, for he had suffered for many years, they say, from an
ailment of the kidneys; and over all he threw a long cloak of good
GREY cloth.
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http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/History/Barons/barons5.html
Archbishop Edwin Sandys died 8 August 1588.
Edwin Sandys, 2nd son of George, embraced the clerical profession, and
was an early confessor of the protestant faith. Having from the pulpit
recommended the cause of lady Jane GREY, he was committed to the Tower
25 July 1553, and afterwards removed to the Marshalsea prison. He was in
an extraordinary manner, and particularly by the generous conduct of sir
Thomas Holcroft knight marshal, delivered from confinement, and assisted
to escape into Germany. Upon the accession of queen Elizabeth he was
elected 12 November 1559 lord bishop of Worcester, and translated
19 January 1577 to the archiepiscopal see of York.
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JOYCE: Ulysses, Cyclops
<<The catastrophe was terrific and instantaneous in its effect. The
observatory of Dunsink registered in all eleven shocks, all of the
fifth grade of Mercalli's scale, and there is no record extant of
a similar seismic disturbance in our island since the EARTHQUAKE
of 1534, the year of the rebellion of Silken Thomas.>>
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The Rebellion of Silken Thomas [Lord OFFALy]: 1534
http://www.rte.ie/millennia/history/0903.html
<<By 1534 Henry VIII had begun to take a more direct role in Irish
affairs. He no longer wanted to depend on the Anglo Irish lords, such
as Garret Óg, to give him some degree of control over the country,
but preferred to make the king's council in Ireland more powerful.
Garret Óg was summoned to England by the king in 1534. His son, Thomas,
Lord OFFALy (known as Silken Thomas), remained in Ireland as his deputy
and was responsible for the government of Ireland. In June 1534 Thomas
rode to Dublin. Before the king's Irish council he denounced royal
policies, surrendered his sword of office and resigned from his position
as the king's deputy. His objective was to put pressure on the monarchy
and force the king to acknowledge the importance of the Earls of Kildare
in the Irish government. From Henry he demanded a pardon for his actions
and the right to hold the position of chief governor for his lifetime.
In July he attacked Dublin Castle, but his army was routed. By this
time his father had taken ill and died in London, and he had succeeded
as tenth earl. He retreated to his stronghold at Maynooth, County
Kildare, but in March 1535 this was taken by an English force under Sir
William Skeffington while Thomas was absent gathering reinforcements to
relieve it. The garrison was given the 'Maynooth Pardon', that is,
they were all put to death.
In July Lord Leonard GREY arrived from England as marshal of Ireland;
Fitzgerald, seeing his army melting away and his allies submitting one
by one, asked pardon for his offences. He was still a formidable
opponent, and GREY, wishing to avoid a prolonged conflict, guaranteed
his personal safety and persuaded him to submit unconditionally to the
king's mercy. In October 1535 he was sent as a prisoner to the Tower.
Despite GREY's guarantee he was hanged, drawn and quartered, with his
five uncles, at Tyburn, 3 February 1537. The power and prestige of the
house of Kildare was at an end. From then on the chief governor of
Ireland was always an Englishman and Dublin was to be occupied
by an English army until 1922.>>
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Elizabeth ZOUCH ----- Garret Og Fitzgerald ------ Elizabeth GREY
| 9th Earl of Kildare | [descendant of
| Lord Deputy of Ireland | Edward III]
| |
Lord Offaly |
Thomas Fitzgerald Gerald Fitzgerald---Mabel Browne
10th Earl of Kildare 11th Earl of Kildare [descendant
ill-thought rebellion 1534 "Wizard Earl" of Edward III]
"Silken Thomas" executed 1537
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http://www.montaguemillennium.com/research/crusaders.htm
<< "... the Knights (these would be the Hospitallers, ed.), having
lost their stronghold ... to Timur the Lame ("Tamurlane",) in 1402, were
establishing a new base at Bodrum, the site of the ancient Halicarnassus
& its famous Mausoleum, stone from which was used in the construction
of the Christian fortress dedicated to St. Peter. This fortress
was to act not simply as a military post, but also as a refuge
for fugitive Christians from the Ottoman Empire. ...
The castle of St. Peter itself provides striking witness to English
participation. Over the gateway to one of its towers, known as the
English Tower, 26 coats of arms were set up in stone, including those
of Henry IV, the Prince of Wales, the dukes of Clarence, Bedford, &
Gloucester (the kings sons), the duke of York, and the families of
GREY, ZOUCHE, DE LA POLE, Neville, Percy, Holland, Beauchamp, Burleigh,
STRANGE, Arundel, MONTAGUE, Stafford, DE VERE, Courtenay, FitzHugh,
Cresson, WOOLFE, and FAIRFAX, many of who could boast of both long
and recent crusading traditions." (Tyerman, pp. 313-314)>>
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King Henry V Act 2, Scene 2
GREY TRUE: those that were your father's enemies
Have steep'd their galls in honey and do serve you
With hearts create of duty and of zeal.
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http://www.englishhistory.net/tudor/genealog.html
Katharine of Aragon married to Henry VIII, king of England,
on 11 June 1509 at GREY Friars Church, Greenwich
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<<In addition to vampires, another classification was soon to enter
the Inquisitional vocabulary as the Dominican Black Friars and the
Franciscan GREY Friars compiled their lists of undesirables. They
had now moved beyond the realm of ordinary heretics and pagans, for
alongside their fabricated vampire myth they conjured another form
of shapeshifting phenomenon: the werewolf.>> -- Sir Laurence Gardner
Nexus Magazine, Volume 6, Number 5 (August-September 1999).
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/profiles/mozart.shtml
<<In July of 1791, however, Mozart was visited by a mysterious stranger
clad in GREY, who commissioned a requiem mass. Mozart worked feverishly
on the score of the work, and was evidently well-paid for it. However,
his health was deteriorating, and in his febrile state he imagined that
he was writing the music for his own funeral. Mozart even believed that
he was being poisoned. By December the Requiem remained unfinished;
Mozart's friends and students gathered at the sickening composer's
bedside to sight-read through those sections that were complete in the
vocal parts. Mozart's condition worsened; on 4 December 1791 he is
reported to have emitted 'great arcs of vomit' from his mouth. He died
shortly after midnight on 5 December and was buried in a commoners'
grave, paid for by his patron Baron Gottfried van Swieten;
his burial was probably not attended by any of his friends.>>
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Elizabeth Gaskell - Charlotte's death
<<Early on Saturday morning, March 31st [1855], the solemn tolling of
Haworth church-bell spoke forth the fact of her death to the villagers
who had known her from a child, and whose hearts shivered within them
as they thought of the two sitting desolate and alone in the old GREY
house. Few beyond that circle of hills knew that she, whom the nations
praised far off, lay dead that EASTER mooring [April fool's day?].>>
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EEYORE, the old GREY Donkey, stood by the side of the stream,
and looked at himself in the water.
"Pathetic," he said. That's what it is. Pathetic."
He turned and walked slowly down the stream for twenty yards,
splashed across it, and walked slowly back on the other side.
Then he looked at himself in the water again.
"As I thought," he said. "No better from this side. But nobody minds.
Nobody cares. Pathetic, that's what it is."
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Grizzle. Dr. Syntax's horse, all skin and bone.
The word means "GREY-coloured."
Grane (2 syl.). Siegfried's horse, of marvellous swiftness.
The word means "GREY-coloured."
Sleipnir (Slipeneer). Odin's GREY horse, which had eight legs and
could traverse either land or sea. The horse typifies the wind which
blows over land and water from eight principal points.
Trebizond. The GREY horse of Admiral Guarinos,
one of the French knights taken at Roncesvalles.
Capilet (GREY). The horse of Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
(Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, iii. 4.)
A capilet or capulet is a small wen on the horse's hock.
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<<Deadly Desert: This terrible GREY, sandy wasteland separates the
Land of Oz in the west from the fairylands beyond. The deadly sands
of this desert will turn living flesh to dust in an instant.>>
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THE PIANOLA My little shy little lass has a waist.
( Zoe and Stephen turn boldly with looser swing. The twilight hours
advance, from long landshadows, dispersed, lagging, languideyed, their
cheeks delicate with cipria and false faint bloom. They are in GREY
gauze with dark bat sleeves that flutter in the land breeze .)
MAGINNI Avant! huit! Traverse! Salut! Cours de mains! Croise!
(The eight hours steal to the last place. Morning, noon and twilight
hours retreat before them. They are masked, with daggered hair and
bracelets of dull bells. Weary, they curchycurchy under veils .)
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<<It was the custom in England's royal court to dub people with
nicknames. Elizabeth I was called "The Cat" from the way she played
with her Cabinet ministers (as if they were mice). Elizabeth's
"lap-dog" was Robert Dudley. The "dish" was Elizabeth's golden dish
carrier [Edward, Earl of Hertford] and the "spoon" was Elizabeth's
royal taster [(Lady Jane's sister) Katherine GREY => "At night all
cats are GREY" - _Don Quixote_] When the 'dish & spoon' secretly
eloped, Elizabeth had them captured and confined to the Tower
of London for seven years.>> -- _The Annotated Mother Goose_
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Portrait of the Artist - James Joyce
-- Stephanos Dedalos! Bous Stephanoumenos! Bous Stephaneforos!
Their banter was not new to him and now it flattered his mild proud
sovereignty. Now, as never before, his strange name seemed to him a
prophecy. So timeless seemed the GREY warm air, so fluid and impersonal
his own mood, that all ages were as one to him. A moment before the
ghost of the ancient kingdom of the Danes had looked forth through the
vesture of the hazewrapped City. Now, at the name of the fabulous
artificer, he seemed to hear the noise of dim waves and to see a winged
form flying above the waves and slowly climbing the air. What did it
mean? Was it a QUAINT device opening a page of some medieval book of
prophecies and symbols, a hawk-like man flying sunward above the sea,
a prophecy of the end he had been born to serve and had been following
through the mists of childhood and boyhood, a symbol of the artist
forging anew in his workshop out of the sluggish matter of the earth
a new soaring impalpable imperishable being?
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http://www.sirbacon.org/sheltontext.html
The Author's Preface To The Reader (Shelton translation)
'For how can I choose,' quoth I, 'but be much
confounded at that which the old legislator (the vulgar) will say, when
it sees that, after the end of so many years as are spent since I first
slept in the bosom of oblivion, I come out loaden with my GREY hairs,
and bring with me a book as dry as a kex, void of invention, barren of
good phrase, poor of conceits, and altogether empty both of learning and
eloquence; without quotations on the margents, or annotations in the end
of the book, wherewith I see other books are still adorned, be they
never so idle, fabulous, and profane; so full of sentences of Aristotle
and Plato, and the other crew of the philosophers, as admires
the readers, and makes them believe that these authors
are very learned and eloquent?
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King Henry VI, Part i Act 3, Scene 2
JOAN LA PUCELLE What will you do, good GREY-beard? break a lance,
And run a TILT at death within a chair?
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`In my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his GREY locks,
`I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment--one shilling the box--
Allow me to sell you a couple?'
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It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
By thy long GREY beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
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Óðinn: Hárbarðr........."Hoar Beard" or "GREY Beard"
<<Myth: Odin is the god of the sky, and a god of war and death, and of
poetry and wisdom. He is the son of Bor and Bestla, and fathered the
gods Balder, Hod, and Hermod with his wife Frigg. He was also the father
of Thor with the goddess Grid, and had a son named Vidar with the
giantess Grid. Odin is also the god of creation, as he and his two
brothers created the world and it's inhabitants from the body of their
grandfather Ymir. He resides in his hall Valaskjalf ("shelf of the
slain") where his throne Hlidskjalf is located, where he watches over
the nine worlds. There, he is accompanied by two wolves, Freki and Geri,
to whom he gives all of his food, for Odin drinks nothing but wine. His
other two companions are the ravens Huginn & Muninn, who bring him
tidings. He also spends much time in Valhalla, where we splits have of
the slain warriors with Freyja, thus also earning the name "father of
the slain". Here, he spends every evening enjoying a great feast with
his Einherjar. His prized possesions include the spear Gungnir, which
never misses it's mark, and the magnificent 8-legged stallion Sleipnir,
both of which were presents from Loki. Odin is described as having one
eye, since he traded the other for a drink from the Well of Wisdom. He
has GREY hair & a beard, often described as being somber & grim, and
wearing a wide-brimmed hat. He hung himslef on the World Tree Yggdrasil
for nine straight days, pierced by his spear Gungnir, in order to learn
nine powerful songs & the secrets of the 18 runes.
He often broke his oaths. And he is far more popular with the noble
class & warriors than he is with the peasants & working class. On
Ragnarok, he will enter battle with the giant wolf Fenrir. After a long
and hard-fought battle, Fenrir will overcome and devour Odin.>>
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From: Mark Alexander (mark...@earthlink.net)
Hamlet responds to Polonius when Polonius asks him what he is reading:
"Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here that old men have GREY
beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber
and plumtree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together
with most weak hams."
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The Taming of the Shrew Act 3, Scene 2
TRANIO We'll over-reach the GREYbeard, Gremio,
The narrow-prying father, Minola,
The QUAINT musician, amorous Licio;
All for my master's sake, Lucentio.
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<<In 3018, on Gandalf the GREY's advice, Bilbo Baggins left Bag End
under the name of MR. UNDERHILL to go to Rivendell.>>
http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/b/baggins.html
<<UNDERHILL: the part of HOBBITON that lay directly beneath HOBBITON
Hill. Its most famous smial('hobbit-hole') was in the Hill: Bag End.
Baggins: An old family of the Shire found mostly in the HOBBITON region
of the Westfarthing. The family seat was at the smial of Bag End in
UNDERHILL. They had always been an important family in the Shire,
and gave rise to the two most important Hobbits of the Third Age,
Bilbo the Ring-finder and Frodo the Ring-bearer.>>
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<<An existing copy of the Latin 'fine' of May 4, 1597 assigns to
Shakspere a MESSUAGE with two barns & *2 gardens* . William UNDERHILL,
who lived part of the year at Idlicote, was a Catholic recusant
who appeared to Stephen Burman to be 'CRAFTY'. Two months after
the sale, UNDERHILL was killed by his son Fulke, then a legal minor,
to whom he had orally bequeathed his lands. UNDERHILL died at
Fillongley near Coventry on July 7, 1597. As a result, New Place was
forfeited to the state for felony, and Fulke was hanged for murder in
1599. The crime kept his right to the house insecure until the victim's
2nd son Hercules UNDERHILL came of age in 1602.>> -- Park Honan
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http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/b/baggins.html
<<In 3018, on Gandalf the GREY's advice, he left Bag End
under the name of MR. UNDERHILL to go to Rivendell. Going with
him were Samwise GamGEE, PEREGRIN Took, and Meriadoc Brandybuck.>>
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http://www.thepalantir.com/characters/frodo.html
Frodo Baggins Birth: 2968 (SR 1368) Death: None*
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King Richard III Act 4, Scene 4
QUEEN MARGARET Thy Edward he is dead, that stabb'd my Edward:
Thy other Edward dead, to quit my Edward;
Young York he is but boot, because both they
Match not the high perfection of my loss:
Thy Clarence he is dead that kill'd my Edward;
And the beholders of this tragic play,
The adulterate Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, GREY,
Untimely smother'd in their dusky graves.
Richard yet lives, hell's black intelligencer,
Only rEsERVED their factor, to BUY souls
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King Henry VI, Part iii Act 1, Scene 3
RUTLAND
Ah, let me live in PRISON all my days;
And when I give occasion of offence,
Then let me die, for now thou hast no cause.
Act 2, Scene 1
EDWARD
Now my soul's palace is become a PRISON:
Act 3, Scene 2
LADY GREY To tell you plain, I had rather lie in PRISON.
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Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 3
FRIAR LAURENCE The GREY-eyed *morn* smiles on the frowning night,
Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,
And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels:
Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,
I must up-fill this *O S I E R* cage of ours
With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.
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Ben Jonson puts him at the top of the list of the "principall
Comoedians" in _Every Man in his Humour_ , 1st acted in 1598:
Will Shakespeare. Ric. Bvrbadge.
Avg. Philips. Ioh. Hemings.
Hen. Condel. Tho. Pope.
Will.Sly. Chr. Beeston.
Will.Kempe. Ioh. Dvke.
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THESPRIO You shall know; two lictors two *OSIER* bundles of twigs.
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http://www.lemonysnicket.com/
Lemony Snicket was born before you were, and is likely to die before
you as well. His family has roots in a part of the country which is now
underwater, and his childhood was spent in the relative splendor of the
Snicket Villa which has since become a factory, a fortress and a
pharmacy and is now, alas, someone else's villa. To the untrained eye,
Mr. Snicket's hometown would not appear to be filled with secrets.
Untrained eyes have been wrong before.
The aftermath of the scandal was swift, brutal and inaccurately reported
in the periodicals of the day. It is true, however, that Mr. Snicket was
stripped of several awards by the reigning authorities, including
Honorable Mention, the GREY Ribbon and First Runner Up.
The High Council reached a convenient if questionable verdict
and Mr. Snicket found himself in exile.
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Robert Dudley, favourite LESTER of Queen Elizabeth I
Born: 24th June [St. John's Day] 1532 Sheen, Surrey
Died: 4th SEPTEMBER 1588, His House, at Cornbury, Oxfordshire
http://www.britannia.com/bios/lords/leicesterrd.html
<<Robert Dudley, the favourite courtier of Queen Elizabeth I, was the
fifth son of John Dudley, Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND and Jane Guildford.
At the age of 18, he married his first wife, Amy Robsart, whom he has
been so often accused, but without sufficient evidence, of murdering in
order to marry Elizabeth. He supported his father in the vain attempt to
place Jane GREY on the throne in July 1553, was condemned to death for
doing so, but pardoned in October 1554, went abroad and distinguished
himself with his brother in the campaign against France in 1557. He
received some kindness from Queen Mary's husband, Philip II of Spain,
but his real fortunes began when Elizabeth, upon her accession,
made him her Master of the Horse.
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http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/0212.htm
February 12, 1554, Lady Jane GREY and her husband Guilford Dudley were
executed at the Tower of London. Lady Jane GREY's body was buried,
along with Dudley's, in St Peter's ad Vincula church, near those
of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, two other executed queens.
The historian Macauley called it the saddest spot on Earth.
February 12, 1567, Thomas Campion born.
He did some musical settings of some Shakespeare poems.
February 12, 1588, John Winthrop,
1st governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, born.
February 12, 1663, Cotton Mather, born in Boston. He wrote in favor of
such modern improvements as smallpox inoculation but also did much
preaching and writing that may have precipitated the Salem witch trials.
February 12, 1709, the Scottish seaman Alexander Selkirk rescued after
over four years of being on Fernandez Island in the South Pacific. His
story was the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
February 12, 1733, James Oglethorpe founded Georgia colony at Savannah
February 12, 1775, (The only foreign-born First Lady) Louisa Catherine
Johnson Adams, wife of President John Quincy Adams, born in London.
She died in Washington at age 77.
February 12, 1789, American patriot leader Ethan Allen died after
drunkenly falling out of a sleigh crossing frozen Lake Champlain.
February 12, 1797, Franz Haydn's Austrian Hymn, from one of his string
quartets, was 1st performed for the Emperor Francis II's fifth birthday.
It is the melody for 'Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles.' [Nazi troops
entered Austria on February 12, 1938.] It is also the melody to which
we sing the popular hymn "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken."
February 12, 1804, Immanuel Kant, German philosopher [Critique of Pure
Reason] dies at 79 in Königsberg, East Prussia. He supposedly never
went over 30 miles from his home.
February 12, 1809, Both Charles Darwin & Abraham Lincoln were born on
the same day. Lincoln's Hardin County, Kentucky, birth-house had windows
with glass and a second story [hardly a log cabin] and was close to
Jefferson Davis' 1808 Todd county birthplace. The Republican candidate
for President in 1860 was a high-dollar Chicago lawyer who was, like his
wife, a clothes-horse. He had dozens of silk scarves and stove-pipe
hats. Lincoln suffered from severe depression (they called it
melancholia in those days), so severe in fact that unlike most men of
his time he would not carry a pocket knife for fear that he might do
himself harm.
February 12, 1818, Chile declared independence from Spain.
February 12, 1828, English Sonnet writer George Meredith born.
February 12, 1851, Australian gold rush triggered when explorer Edward
Hargraves discovers gold at Summerhill Creek in New South Wales.
February 12, 1884, Alice Lee Roosevelt, the oldest child of Theodore
Roosevelt, was born on this day in 1884 in New York City. Her mother,
Alice Lee Roosevelt, died two days later. Her father never mentioned her
mother again, remarrying two years later. Alice the daughter received
national attention as a teen-ager in the White House. Her father said
to her critics, "I can either govern the country or govern Alice. I cannot
do both." She married Nicholas Longworth, who eventually became
Speaker of the House of Representatives. She was a persistent critic of
her cousins Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. She is famous for having
had a couch needlepoint cushion which read, "If you don't have anything
nice to say about anybody, come sit by me." She died in 1980.
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http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/0223.htm
February 23, 155, St. Polycarp, disciple of Apostle John,
arrested & burned at the stake
February 23, 303, Roman Emperor Diocletian ordered
the general persecution of Christians.
February 23, 1455, Johannes Gutenberg printed the 1st Bible.
February 23, 1533, Montaigne born.
February 23, 1554, Lady Jane GREY's father executed
February 23, 1633, English diarist Samuel Pepys was born in London.
On his 36th birthday, as member of King Charles II's civil service, he
found himself in Westminster Abbey for the exhumation of the body
of the French queen Katherine of Valois, and he kissed the cadaver.
Pepys wrote that on that day "I did kiss a queen."
February 23, 1649, John Blow, composer of the first English opera,
Venus and Adonis, baptized
February 23, 1685, Georg Friedrich Händel born the same year (50 miles
away) as J.S. Bach. Händel was a voracious eater and once asked his COOK
to prepare a meal for seven. When the COOK asked who the company was,
he replied, "What company?"
February 23, 1732, Händel's Messiah, first performed.
February 23, 1781, Irish-born ironmaster & signer of the Declaration of
Independence from Pennsylvania, George Taylor diesd
.
February 23, 1787, Emma Willard, American educator of young women born
February 23, 1792, Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter, dies at 68.
February 23, 1820, the Cato Street Conspiracy (a plan to assassinate
the entire British cabinet of ministers) foiled.
February 23, 1821, John Keats died of tuberculosis in the rooms he was
sharing with Joseph Severn near the Spanish Steps in Rome. Keats' publisher
did a fund subscription to allow the poet to go to the warmer Italian
climates. Severn, a painter who wanted to go to Rome, was engaged to
accompany Keats. Severn said they were halfway to Rome before he realized
his companion was virtually a dead man. Toward the end of his suffering,
Keats became obsessive about his fiancée Fanny Brawne and her supposed
infidelities that even the sight of her letters would send him hemorrhaging.
Keats' artistic philosophy was based on the notion of light-and-shade
beauty, i.e., that beauty could be found in the melancholy as well as the
joyful. But he told Severn that that philosophy had failed him at the end;
he could find no beauty in his deathbed agony. In those last days, Leigh
Hunt wrote a beautiful letter to Severn, asking him to assure Keats that
although they could do nothing to alleviate his suffering, his friends back
in England were standing at the side of the road, holding their hats in
their hands as he walked down the road that all would eventually walk
down.
February 23, 1836, siege of the Alamo began
February 23, 1848, ex-President John Quincy Adams collapsed at his desk
(he was a Whig member of the House of Representatives for 17 years
following his leaving the Presidency). He died in the Speaker's chamber.
February 23, 1861, voters in the State of Texas vote to secede
as Lincoln arrives secretly to take office.
February 23, 1863, Lake Victoria determined to be source of the Nile
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Chapter 1Kings.7
21: And he set up the PILLARS in the porch of the TEMPLE: and
he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and
he set up the left pillar, and he called the name thereof Boaz.
22: And upon the top of the PILLARS was LILY work:
so was the work of the PILLARS finished.
25: It stood upon twelve OXEN, three looking toward the NORTH,
and three looking toward the WEST,
and three looking toward the SOUTH,
and three looking toward the EAST:
and the sea was set above upon them,
and all their hinder parts were inward.
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North, East, West & South
Norþri, Austri, Vestri & Suþri
Brisings: Alfrigg, Berling, Dvalin, & GREYr (the fourth)
<<The Brisings : The Brisings are not really gods or þurses. The Brisings
are simply the name given to the 4 dwarves (like Alvis): Alfrigg, Dvalin,
Berling, GREYr whom either forged or owned the necklace 'Brisingamen' that
Freyja now possesses. There are many versions told of how she came
to possess it, but it was most certainly through some sexual act either
promised or performed with the Brisings. In some tales she seduces and in
others she is raped. There is an even a version where the Brisings are given
the names Norþri, Suþri, Austri & Vestri (North, South, East & West).
This last should be noted because of the hint that the Brisingamen is a
representation of encircling the earth (Midgarðr).>>
http://www.timelessmyths.com/norse/beings.html#Brisings
The Brisings or Bristlings were the name of the four dwarfs or dwarven
brothers. They were named Alfrigg, Berling, Dvalin and Grer. The dwarfs were
responsible for creating a beautiful gold necklace (some say it was a belt),
known as the Brísingamen (Brisingamen). It was so beautiful that the goddess
Freyja wanted the Brisingamen for herself. The story of Freyja and the
Brisingamen was told more fully, in the work known as Sottr Thattr, written
about 1400. At this time Freyja was Odin's favourite mistress. I don't know
what was special about this necklace, but it was probably to enhance the
wearer's beauty, but Freyja was already considered to be the most
beautiful woman/goddess in the world.
One night, Freyja left her bed and her palace, wandering through the woods
and came before a cave where she heard dwarves working on a piece of
jewellery. Loki secretly followed the goddess, spying on Freyja. When
Freyja saw the Brisingamen, she became obsessed with the beautifully
crafted necklace. The dwarfs refused to accept Freyja's gold and silver for
the necklace. The Brisings would give the goddess the Brisingamen only
if she slept with each one of them. In desperation to possess the
Brisingamen, Freyja willingly agreed to their price. For four nights,
she spent a night in each of the dwarf's bed.
Loki discovered Freyja's wantonness and informed Odin of her conduct.
Odin was disgusted that Freyja was acting like a whore, by selling herself
for the Brisingamen. Odin had Loki steal the Brisingamen from the Freyja.
Most people could not enter her hall, called Sessrumnir, without Freyja's
permission, no matter how powerful a god or giant. Loki entered Sessrumnir,
by tranforming himself into a flea. Freyja was sleeping, while still wearing
the Brisingamen. As a flea, Loki bit so that the goddess would turn around
in the bed. This allowed Loki's to unlock the clasp and slip the necklace
off Freyja. When Freyja awoke and found that her necklace was missing, she
knew that Loki had stolen them. And Freyja also knew that the sly god would
not have done so without Odin's order. Freyja went and confronted Odin,
demanding the return of the Brisingamen. Freyja told Odin that it was
disgraceful that he would take her necklace. Odin countered that it was
she who was disgraceful, since she had slept with four dwarves to gain
the Brisingamen. Odin agreed to return the Brisingamen to Freyja, on the
condition that she starts wars in the world of men. Freyja had no
choice, if she wanted the Brisingamen returned to her.>>
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The Brisingamen was frequently mentioned
from works earlier than the Sorla Thattr.
In Prose Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson, the Brisingamen was
mentioned several times. It mentioned that Freyja was the owner
of the Brisingamen. Later, it tells of how Loki stole the Brisingamen,
which was different from the Sorla Thattr. Loki tried to escape
from Sessrumnir with the Brisingamen.
However Heimdall, the guardian of Bifrost (Rainbow Bridge), had keen
eyes and saw Loki's theft. Heimdall immediately set out on pursuit, caught
and fought with Loki at Singastein. Heimdall recovered the stolen necklace
and returned the Brisingamen to Freyja.
According to the Thrymskvida, a poem from the Poetic Edda, when Thor
went to recover his stolen hammer from the giants, Thor had to disguise
himself as Freyja and as bride to the giant Thrym. To complete his
disguise, Thor had to borrow the Brisingamen from Freyja
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http://www.eapoe.org/papers/psbbooks/pb19871f.htm
<<By 1913 a plaster model for the [Poe] monument was completed
and shipped from Rome to Friedrichshagen near Berlin,
where it was to be cast in bronze. At a Custom's warehouse on
the border between Austria and Germany disaster struck: fire completely
destroyed the model for the Poe statue; the work was uninsured.
Undaunted, Sir Moses began again to model the likeness of Poe.
Incredibly, this second model was broken into fragments when an
earthquake shook Rome in April 1915. Again his loss was uninsured,
but once more Sir Moses resumed work on the monument.
In January 1916, Sir Moses informed the Association that
. . . My monument to our greatest poet, Edgar Allan Poe, is now
quite completed in every detail, excepting the inscription to be carved
in the pedestal. The latter I shall make in the GREY volcanic stone
called Pepernio, which I am quarrying in the Alban Hills, near Merino,
and the statue in bronze of the very best quality, is now about to be
cast in bronze here in Rome.
The statue is entirely different from the first one I made. When
I get the inscription from the committee, I will introduce them in
lapidary style on the pedestal, and then my work will be virtually
finished, excepting the careful supervision of the entire work in
bronze and stone until it can be boxed and sent home.>>
---------------------------------------------
Art Neuendorffer
Greg Reynolds
Art Neuendorffer wrote:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> GREYHOUND has no connection with the colour GREY.
> It is the GRAYhound, or hound which hunts the GRAY or badger
\Gray\, n. 1. A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish
tint.
2. An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.
+++
SO, Art, these dogs can hunt horse, badger, or salmon (rushdie).
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> <<And so down to the heart of [Stratford] the nexus of buildings
> dominated by the GREY-stone tower of the Gild-Chapel built by
> Hugh Clopton. When Leland was here,
>
> 'about the body of this chapel was
> curiously painted the Dance of Death.'
>
> The interior was sadly ravaged by the Reformation - paintings
> white-washed. We have with much effort recovered something
> of the painted DOOM upon the chancel-arch.>>
>
> _William Shakespeare, a biography_ by A.L. Rowse. p. 18
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
How did an illiterate boob like Clopton build that tower? Masonry?
Ooh, how did he become Lord Mayor of London?
> _Ulysses_ by Joyce
> Their WIGS to show the GREY matter. Brains on their sleeve like the
> statue in Glasnevin. Believe he does some literary work for the Express
> with Gabriel Conroy. Wellread fellow. Myles Crawford began on the
> Independent. Funny the way those newspaper men VEER about
> when they get wind of a new opening.
I thought you said grey mattress. Never mind.
> . . . . . .
> He turned abruptly his GREY searching eyes from the sea
> to Stephen's face.
>
> -- The aunt thinks you killed your mother, he said.
> That's why she won't let me have anything to do with you.
>
> -- Someone killed her, Stephen said gloomily.
>
> -- You could have knelt down, damn it, Kinch, when your dying mother
> asked you, Buck Mulligan said. I'm hyperborean as much as you. But to
> think of your mother begging you with her last breath to kneel down and
> pray for her. And you refused. There is something sinister in you....
>
> He broke off and lathered again lightly his farther cheek.
> A tolerant smile curled his lips.
>
> -- But a lovely mummer! he murmured to himself.
> Kinch, the loveliest mummer of them all!
>
> Buck Mulligan attacked the hollow beneath his underlip.
>
> -- The mockery of it, he said contentedly. Secondleg they should be.
> God knows what poxy bowsy left them off. I have a lovely pair with
> a hair stripe, GREY. You'll look spiffing in them. I'm not joking,
> Kinch. You look damn well when you're dressed.
>
> -- Thanks, Stephen said. I can't wear them if they are GREY.
>
> -- He can't wear them, Buck Mulligan told his face in the mirror.
> He kills his mother but he can't wear GREY trousers.
And to think that Joyce would have shorter posts than yours.
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Can't wear GREY until a year & a day: June 24, 1904
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> BloomsDay of James Joyce's _Ulysses_:
> Thursday June 16, 1904 exactly 301 (52 week "years")
> after Oxford's death Thursday June 24, 1604
Thursday has no feel.
Sunday has a feel.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> James Joyce's _Finnegans Wake_ p. 31
>
> Holybones of Saint Hubert how our red brother of Pour-
> ingrainia would audibly fume did he know that we have for sur-
> trusty bailiwick a turnpiker who is by turns a pikebailer no sel-
> domer than an earwigger For he kinned Jom Pill
> with his court so gray and his haunts in his house in the mourning.
Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> with his court so GRAY and his haunts IN
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.
> <<The early Elizabethan drama owed much stimulus to the performance
> by barristers of plays in their halls at festive seasons. It was in the
> Hall of the Inner Temple on Twelfth Night, 1561, that the first English
> tragedy, Gorboduc, which was written by two members of the Inn,
> was first acted. Again, the first regular English comedy,
> _Supposes_, was first acted in GRAY's Inn Hall, five years later,
> the authors, George Gascoigne & Francis Kilwelmershe, being
> both students of the Society. It was for a Christmas revel at
> the Middle Temple that Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night; and
> The Comedy of Errors certainly played in GRAY's Inn Hall in 1594
> in the intervals of 'dancing & revelry with gentlewomen'.>>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
Gray copper (Min.), tetrahedrite
> GRYPHON, n. [OE. GRIFFIN, griffon, griffoun, F. griffon, fr. L.
> gryphus, equiv to GRYPS] 1. (Myth.) A fabulous monster, half lion &
> half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian & Roman works of art.
>
> THE GRIFFIN of GRAY's Inn
> http://www.online-law.co.uk/bar/grays_inn/griffin.html
>
> The arms of the Society are - Sable a Griffin sergeant
> or, that is a golden griffin standing on a black field.
> It is thought to be borrowed from Richard Aungier, thrice
> Treasurer of the Inn, at the turn of the sixteenth
> century, and it is a more spectacular heraldic device
> than the plain bars of the de GREY arms which were
> previously used - they may be seen above the main
> entrance to the Treasury Office in South Square. A GRIFFIN
> is the offspring of a lion and eagle with the body of
> the former and the head and shoulders of the latter,
> but 'also with animal ears. It is sacred to the SUN, being
> seen, for example, on the Temple of Apollo at Miletus
> and was used by the ancients to guard TREASURE.
Gray duck (Zo["o]l.), the gadwall; also applied to the female mallard.
> GRAY's Inn Alumnae:
>
> Sir William Cecil (*TREASUREr* / Secret Service);
> Sir Francis Walsingham ( Secret Service )
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Admitted to GRAY's Inn
> ------------------------
> Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford 1567 age 17
> Francis Bacon Sept. 1576 age 15
> Henry Wriothesley, 3rd E. of Southampton: July 1590 age 17
> Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland: Feb. 1598 age 21
Quite the groomer of impostors! 2 or 3 fakes right there!
Think of how uncomely it would be for the elegant de Vere in 1592
to schmooze this underclassman (23 years younger) to accept his (Ed's)
first poetry! No wonder VERy few people can be seriously Oxfordian!
Gray area indeed.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Australian Rivers
> http://www.nativefish.asn.au/ozrivers.html
"We know William Shakespeare, Jr. started seriously making tackle about
1900. The first published catalog for his company was in 1902. In that
catalog only four lures were offered. The Revolution, Worden Bucktail,
Evolution, and a rubber Tournament Bait-casting Frog. Used for these
lures were the black and silver introductory cardboard boxes. In later
years, some of these same baits were placed in the box then in current
use by the company if the bait was still in production. An example would
be the Evolution, which was later sold in the GRAY box during the twenties."
http://www.antiquelures.com/Shakesboxes.htm
> MURRAY [Amelia Ann Murray, Elizabeth Vere's granddaughter]
> [James Stuart, 1st earl of Murray]
> DARLING [Peter Pan's Wendy]
> CAMPASPE [Play of 5th best John Lyly]
> LATROBE
> ALICE [Alice Spencer, Elizabeth Vere's sister-in-law]
> SWAN/AVON
>
> DE GREY [of GRAY's Inn]
> WILTON [Pembrooke home to Swan of Avon's "ELSA": Mary Sidney]
> GASCOYNE [7th best for Comedy]
Tell him to take a number.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21).
> Volume III. Renascence and Reformation.
>
> X. George Gascoigne. § 2. The Posies.
>
> <<The edition of 1575 recounts Gascoigne's experiences of war
> and imprisonment in Holland. Die groene Hopman, as the Dutch
> called him, was not well regarded by the burghers, and the dislike was
> mutual. Gascoigne ascribes the distrust of those to whom, according to
> his own account, he rendered valiant and repeated service, to a love
> affair with a lady in the Spanish camp; but it was, perhaps, also due to
> his eagerness to make himself acquainted with the burghers' affairs and
> to the "Cartes . Mappes . and Models" which he offers to lay before lord
> GREY of WILTON in explanation of "Hollandes State". Gascoigne's poems
> on his adventures in the Low Countries throw some remarkable sidelights
> on the relations between the burghers and their English allies.>>
Gray snipe (Zo["o]l.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> <<_A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in
> Morel's Skin for her Good Behavior_ (c. 1560). The sub-plot of
> romantic wooing bears a resemblance to Ariosto's _I Suppositi_
> translated by George [G]asco[i]gne as _I Supposes_ (1566).>>
>
> A performance of [G]asco[i]gne's _I Supposes_
> took place 5 weeks before de Vere entered [G]ray's [i]nn.
> (GRAY's Inn was only * mile from his home at Cecil House.)
Missed it by that much.
--Smart
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> [G]ray's [i]nn [shReW]
> ----------------------------------------------------------
{Y}eah, w(hat) ab[out] it?
> The Names of the Principall Actors in all these Playes.
>
> <= [4 x 4 x 4 - 3 x 3 x 3] =>
> 333 Letters [= 9 x 37 (plays)]
>
> WilliamShakespeareRichardBurbadgeJ o hn
> HemmingsAugustinePhillipsWilliamKe m pt
>
> ThomasPoopeGeorgeBryanHenryCondell W il
> liamSlyeRichardCowlyJohnLowineSamu e ll
> CrosseAlexanderCookeSamuelGilburne R ob
> ertArminWilliamOstlerNathanFieldJo h nU
> nderwoodNicholasTooleyWilliamEccle s to
>
> neJosephTaylorRobertBenfieldRobert G ou
> gheRichardRobinsonJohnShanckeJohnR i ce
>
> 8 W**** 's
> 37 e 's
> 26 R 's
> 18 h 's
> 17 s 's
>
> raw probability of "shReW" in 9 x 37 array ~ 1 / 5,000
RAW
What is it good for?
Absolutely Nothing
Say it again.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Where did WSC and Roosevelt first meet?
>
> GRAY's Inn, London (July 29, 1918)
It was handicapped equipped.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> _Knights of the Helmet_ by Martin Pares
> http://hiwaay.net/~paul/bacon/devices/gestaintro.html
>
> <<Their device was to turn GRAY's Inn, "with the consent & advice of
> the Readers & Ancients," into the semblance of a court & kingdom,
> and to entertain each other during the twelve days of Christmas licence
> with playing at kings & counsellors. They proceeded accordingly to
> elect a prince -- the Prince of Purpoole. . .>>
(formerly known as) Purpoole Reign
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Abbey of (THELEM)e <=> (HELMET) knights
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> <<_Gargantua_'s last major episode centres on:
>
> the erection of the Abbey of Theleme,
Gray hen (Zo["o]l.), the female of the black cock
> a monastic institution that rejects poverty, celibacy & obedience;
> instead it welcomes wealth & the well-born, praises
> the aristocratic life, and rejoices in good marriages.>>
> -- Encyclopedia Britannica
GREAT
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> <<The man who accompanied him
> was apparently his servant; he rode a shaggy little GREY pony,
> had a blue bonnet on his head, and a large check NAPKIN folded
> about his neck, wore a pair of long blue worsted hose instead of
> boots, had his gloveless hands much stained with tar, and
> observed an air of deference and respect towards his companion,
> but without any of those indications of precedence and punctilio
> which are preserved between the gentry and their domesties.>>
> - _The Black Dwarf_ by Sir Walter Scott
Not too politically correct, Wally.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Portrait of the Artist - James Joyce
>
> He tore a sheet from his scribbler and passed it down, whispering:
> -- In case of necessity any layman or woman can do it. The formula which
> he wrote obediently on the sheet of paper, the coiling and uncoiling
> calculations of the professor, the spectre-like symbols of force and
> velocity fascinated and jaded Stephen's mind. He had heard some say that
> the old professor was an atheist freemason. O the GREY dull day! It
> seemed a limbo of painless patient consciousness through which souls of
> mathematicians might wander, projecting long slender fabrics from plane
> to plane of ever rarer and paler twilight, radiating swift eddies to the
> last VERGES of a UNIVERSE EVER vaster, farther and more impalpable.
> -- So we must distinguish between elliptical and ellipsoidal. Perhaps
> some of you gentlemen may be familiar with the works of Mr W. S.
> Gilbert. In one of his songs he speaks of the BILLIARD sharp who
> is condemned to play: On a cloth untrue With a twisted cue
> And elliptical BILLIARD balls.
There is no GREY billiard ball.
Nice work, Art. (I mean about the logorrhea not getting excised.)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Picture of DORIAN GRAY - Oscar Wilde
>
> <<I had drawn you as Paris in DAINTY armour,
> and as Adonis with huntsman's cloak and polished BOAR-SPEAR.
> Crowned with heavy lotus-blossoms you had sat on the prow
> of ADRIAN's barge, gazing across the green turbid NILE.
> You had leaned over the still pool of some Greek woodland and seen
> in the water's SILENT SILVER the marvel of your own face.
Gray buck (Zo["o]l.), the chickara.
http://www.toonarific.com/d/DudleyDooright-episodes.html
Dudley DoRight Episode Guide:
The Disloyal Canadians
Finding Gold
Mortgagin' The Mountie Post
Trap Bait
Masked Ginny Lynne
The Centaur
Railroad Tracks
Foreclosing Mortgages
Snidley Mounted Police
Mother Love
Mountie Bear
Inspector Dudley Do-Right
Recruiting Campaign
Out Of Uniform
Lure Of The Footlights
Bullet Proof Suit
Miracle Drug
Elevenworth Prison
Saw Mill
Mountie Without A Horse
Mother Whiplash's Log Jam
Stolen Art Masterpiece
Mechanical Dudley
Flicker Rock
Faithful Dog
Coming-Out Party
Robbing Banks
Skagway Dogsled-Pulling Contest
Canadian Railway's Bridge
Niagra Falls
Snidely's Vic Whiplash Gym
Marigolds
Trading Places
Top Secret
The Locket
The Inspector's Nephew
Matinee Idol
Snidely Arrested
Gray antimony (Min.), stibnite.
Gray snapper (Zo["o]l.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See Snapper.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> http://members.nbci.com/book_archive/00/gk/homer/07.html
>
> <<Athene shed a deep MIST about Odysseus for the favour that she bare
> him, lest any of the Phaeacians, high of heart, should meet him and mock
> him in sharp speech, and ask him who he was. But when he was now about
> to enter the pleasant city, then the goddess, GREY-eyed Athene, met him,
> in the fashion of a young maiden carrying a pitcher, and she stood over
> against him, and goodly Odysseus inquired of her: Now the steadfast
> goodly Odysseus went through the hall, clad in a thick MIST, which
> Athene shed around him, till he came to ARETE and the king Alcinous.
> And Odysseus cast his hands about the KNEES of ARETE, and then
> it was that the wondrous MIST melted from off him, and a silence
> fell on them that were within the house at the sight of him,
> and they marvelled as they beheld him.>>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Daniel Defoe "wanted poster" discription:
> "a middle-sized spare man about 40 years old, of a brown complexion
> and dark brown-coloured hair, but weares a WIG; A HOOKED NOSE,
> a sharp chin, GREY EYES, and a large mole near his mouth."
Flared nostrils? Hair like a horse? No, haven't seen him.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Shakespeare's _Poems_(1640) -- I. B.
>
> HIS EVERLIVIN{G W}OR[kes]
>
> {W}
> VERONIH{I}LVERI(u)S
> {G}
>
> W I G , v. t. To censure or rebuke;
> to hold up to reprobation; to scold.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.student.kun.nl/l.derooy/index.html?alice4.html
>
> <<When Lewis Carroll wrote "Through the Looking Glass",
> Tenniel objected to a chapter, so Carroll dropped the entire episode.
> This chapter was called "A WASP in a WIG".
>
> So now that I am old and GREY,
> And all my hair is nearly gone,
> They take my WIG from me and say
> 'How can you put such rubbish on?'
>
> And still, whenever I appear,
> They hoot at me and call me 'PIG!'
> And that is why they do it, dear,
> Because I wear a yellow WIG."
Toupee or not toupee?
Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar.
Gray parrot (Zo["o]l.), a parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very commonly
domesticated, and noted for its aptness in learning to talk.
+++
Shortly after his arrival in London in May, 1603, James I granted a formal patent to
Shakespeare's company, transforming the Lord Chamberlain's Men into the King's
Men. Royal patronage brought not only prestige, but also increased prosperity--the
Globe became more popular, and consequently more profitable.
Along with the other sharers, Shakespeare became a Groom of the Chamber*,
entitled to two sets of royal liveries every two years. A livery is an outfit of
clothing in the colours of the the master--in this case James I. The records of
the Master of the Great Wardrobe list Shakespeare as the recipient of four and
a half yards of RED CLOTH for the coronation procession of James I on March
15, 1604.
Grooming chambers
Although they were not normally in attendance at court, the King's Men
served as grooms to the Spanish Ambassador on his visit to
England in 1604 to negotiate peace.
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLTnoframes/life/kingsmen.html#fn2
By *SILKEN* sly, insinuating jacks?
--King Richard III: I, iii
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Elizabeth ZOUCH ----- Garret Og Fitzgerald ------ Elizabeth GREY
> | 9th Earl of Kildare | [descendant of
> | Lord Deputy of Ireland | Edward III]
> | |
> Lord Offaly |
> Thomas Fitzgerald Gerald Fitzgerald---Mabel Browne
> 10th Earl of Kildare 11th Earl of Kildare [descendant
> ill-thought rebellion 1534 "Wizard Earl" of Edward III]
> "Silken Thomas" executed 1537
A cocker'd SILKEN
--King John: V, i
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.montaguemillennium.com/research/crusaders.htm
>
> << "... the Knights (these would be the Hospitallers, ed.), having
> lost their stronghold ... to Timur the Lame ("Tamurlane",) in 1402, were
> establishing a new base at Bodrum, the site of the ancient Halicarnassus
> & its famous Mausoleum, stone from which was used in the construction
> of the Christian fortress dedicated to St. Peter. This fortress
> was to act not simply as a military post, but also as a refuge
> for fugitive Christians from the Ottoman Empire. ...
>
> The castle of St. Peter itself provides striking witness to English
> participation. Over the gateway to one of its towers, known as the
> English Tower, 26 coats of arms were set up in stone, including those
> of Henry IV, the Prince of Wales, the dukes of Clarence, Bedford, &
> Gloucester (the kings sons), the duke of York, and the families of
> GREY, ZOUCHE, DE LA POLE, Neville, Percy, Holland, Beauchamp, Burleigh,
> STRANGE, Arundel, MONTAGUE, Stafford, DE VERE, Courtenay, FitzHugh,
> Cresson, WOOLFE, and FAIRFAX, many of who could boast of both long
> and recent crusading traditions." (Tyerman, pp. 313-314)>>
In my green velvet coat
-Leontes, WT I,ii
I'd drape myself in velvet
-Costanza, SEIN XLII
Gray mill or millet (Bot.), a name of several plants
of the genus Lithospermum; gromwell.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Grizzle. Dr. Syntax's horse, all skin and bone.
> The word means "GREY-coloured."
>
> Grane (2 syl.). Siegfried's horse, of marvellous swiftness.
> The word means "GREY-coloured."
"As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it."
--King Henry V: II, ii
> Sleipnir (Slipeneer). Odin's GREY horse, which had eight legs and
> could traverse either land or sea. The horse typifies the wind which
> blows over land and water from eight principal points.
>
> Trebizond. The GREY horse of Admiral Guarinos,
> one of the French knights taken at Roncesvalles.
>
> Capilet (GREY). The horse of Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
> (Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, iii. 4.)
> A capilet or capulet is a small wen on the horse's hock.
Wen?
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> <<Deadly Desert: This terrible GREY, sandy wasteland separates the
> Land of Oz in the west from the fairylands beyond. The deadly sands
> of this desert will turn living flesh to dust in an instant.>>
Bring aloe.
James, are you making a beer run or not?
"Black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow."
--King Henry V: V, ii
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Ó?inn: Hárbar?r........."Hoar Beard" or "GREY Beard"
>
> <<Myth: Odin is the god of the sky, and a god of war and death, and of
> poetry and wisdom. He is the son of Bor and Bestla, and fathered the
> gods Balder, Hod, and Hermod with his wife Frigg. He was also the father
> of Thor with the goddess Grid, and had a son named Vidar with the
> giantess Grid. Odin is also the god of creation, as he and his two
> brothers created the world and it's inhabitants from the body of their
> grandfather Ymir. He resides in his hall Valaskjalf ("shelf of the
> slain") where his throne Hlidskjalf is located, where he watches over
> the nine worlds. There, he is accompanied by two wolves, Freki and Geri,
> to whom he gives all of his food, for Odin drinks nothing but wine. His
> other two companions are the ravens Huginn & Muninn, who bring him
> tidings. He also spends much time in Valhalla, where we splits have of
> the slain warriors with Freyja, thus also earning the name "father of
> the slain". Here, he spends every evening enjoying a great feast with
> his Einherjar. His prized possesions include the spear Gungnir, which
> never misses it's mark, and the magnificent 8-legged stallion Sleipnir,
> both of which were presents from Loki. Odin is described as having one
> eye, since he traded the other for a drink from the Well of Wisdom. He
> has GREY hair & a beard, often described as being somber & grim, and
> wearing a wide-brimmed hat. He hung himslef on the World Tree Yggdrasil
> for nine straight days, pierced by his spear Gungnir, in order to learn
> nine powerful songs & the secrets of the 18 runes.
That'll make ya think.
> He often broke his oaths. And he is far more popular with the noble
> class & warriors than he is with the peasants & working class. On
> Ragnarok, he will enter battle with the giant wolf Fenrir. After a long
> and hard-fought battle, Fenrir will overcome and devour Odin.>>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Mark Alexander (mark...@earthlink.net)
>
> Hamlet responds to Polonius when Polonius asks him what he is reading:
>
> "Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here that old men have GREY
> beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber
> and plumtree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together
> with most weak hams."
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> The Taming of the Shrew Act 3, Scene 2
>
> TRANIO We'll over-reach the GREYbeard, Gremio,
> The narrow-prying father, Minola,
> The QUAINT musician, amorous Licio;
> All for my master's sake, Lucentio.
Bloody thou ART, bloody will be thy end
--King Richard III: IV, iv
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> <<In 3018, on Gandalf the GREY's advice, Bilbo Baggins left Bag End
> under the name of MR. UNDERHILL to go to Rivendell.>>
>
> http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/b/baggins.html
>
> <<UNDERHILL: the part of HOBBITON that lay directly beneath HOBBITON
> Hill. Its most famous smial('hobbit-hole') was in the Hill: Bag End.
> Baggins: An old family of the Shire found mostly in the HOBBITON region
> of the Westfarthing. The family seat was at the smial of Bag End in
> UNDERHILL. They had always been an important family in the Shire,
> and gave rise to the two most important Hobbits of the Third Age,
> Bilbo the Ring-finder and Frodo the Ring-bearer.>>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> <<An existing copy of the Latin 'fine' of May 4, 1597 assigns to
> Shakspere a MESSUAGE with two barns & *2 gardens* . William UNDERHILL,
> who lived part of the year at Idlicote, was a Catholic recusant
> who appeared to Stephen Burman to be 'CRAFTY'. Two months after
> the sale, UNDERHILL was killed by his son Fulke, then a legal minor,
> to whom he had orally bequeathed his lands. UNDERHILL died at
> Fillongley near Coventry on July 7, 1597. As a result, New Place was
> forfeited to the state for felony, and Fulke was hanged for murder in
> 1599. The crime kept his right to the house insecure until the victim's
> 2nd son Hercules UNDERHILL came of age in 1602.>> -- Park Honan
While Quyntin kicked cans.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/b/baggins.html
>
> <<In 3018, on Gandalf the GREY's advice, he left Bag End
> under the name of MR. UNDERHILL to go to Rivendell. Going with
> him were Samwise GamGEE, PEREGRIN Took, and Meriadoc Brandybuck.>>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.thepalantir.com/characters/frodo.html
>
> Frodo Baggins Birth: 2968 (SR 1368) Death: None*
> r a Race: Hobbit Sex: Male
> a c
> n o *Frodo is not accounted to have died,
> c n for he went away at the GREY Havens.
> i Gris Havres
> s a a
> b r
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"Much of this will make black white"
--Timon of Athens: IV, iii
...................You're the kind of person
...................You meet at certain dismal dull affairs.
...................Center of a crowd, talking much too loud
...................Running up and down the stairs.
...................Well, it seems to me that you have seen too much in too few years.
...................And though you've tried you just can't hide
...................Your eyes are edged with tears.
...................You better stop
...................Look around
...................Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
...................Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown.
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>
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> THESPRIO You shall know; two lictors two *OSIER* bundles of twigs.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> THESEINSUINGSONNETSM [r] WHALL
> HAPPINESSEANDTHATET [E] RNITI
> EPROMISEDBYOUREVERL [I V] INGP
> OETWISHETHTHEWELLWI [S]h[I] NGA
> DVENTURERINSETTINGF [O]r t[H] TT
Mr. Neurondoffer, tear down this wall.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.lemonysnicket.com/
>
> Lemony Snicket was born before you were, and is likely to die before
> you as well. His family has roots in a part of the country which is now
> underwater, and his childhood was spent in the relative splendor of the
> Snicket Villa which has since become a factory, a fortress and a
> pharmacy and is now, alas, someone else's villa. To the untrained eye,
> Mr. Snicket's hometown would not appear to be filled with secrets.
> Untrained eyes have been wrong before.
With a name like Snicket he's got to be good.
> The aftermath of the scandal was swift, brutal and inaccurately reported
> in the periodicals of the day. It is true, however, that Mr. Snicket was
> stripped of several awards by the reigning authorities, including
> Honorable Mention, the GREY Ribbon and First Runner Up.
> The High Council reached a convenient if questionable verdict
> and Mr. Snicket found himself in exile.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Robert Dudley, favourite LESTER of Queen Elizabeth I
> Born: 24th June [St. John's Day] 1532 Sheen, Surrey
> Died: 4th SEPTEMBER 1588, His House, at Cornbury, Oxfordshire
> http://www.britannia.com/bios/lords/leicesterrd.html
>
> <<Robert Dudley, the favourite courtier of Queen Elizabeth I, was the
> fifth son of John Dudley, Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND and Jane Guildford.
> At the age of 18, he married his first wife, Amy Robsart, whom he has
> been so often accused, but without sufficient evidence, of murdering in
> order to marry Elizabeth. He supported his father in the vain attempt to
> place Jane GREY on the throne in July 1553, was condemned to death for
> doing so, but pardoned in October 1554, went abroad and distinguished
> himself with his brother in the campaign against France in 1557. He
> received some kindness from Queen Mary's husband, Philip II of Spain,
> but his real fortunes began when Elizabeth, upon her accession,
> made him her Master of the Horse.
Oh yeah, he gets to hold the horses while Shakespeare gets to
write Falstaff into more plays. Who's the boob this time?
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/0212.htm
>
> February 12, 1554, Lady Jane GREY and her husband Guilford Dudley were
> executed at the Tower of London. Lady Jane GREY's body was buried,
> along with Dudley's, in St Peter's ad Vincula church, near those
> of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, two other executed queens.
> The historian Macauley called it the saddest spot on Earth.
>
> February 12, 1567, Thomas Campion born.
> He did some musical settings of some Shakespeare poems.
On his first day? Precocious!
> February 12, 1588, John Winthrop,
> 1st governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, born.
>
> February 12, 1663, Cotton Mather, born in Boston. He wrote in favor of
> such modern improvements as smallpox inoculation but also did much
> preaching and writing that may have precipitated the Salem witch trials.
>
> February 12, 1709, the Scottish seaman Alexander Selkirk rescued after
> over four years of being on Fernandez Island in the South Pacific. His
> story was the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
Don't call me Friday.
> February 12, 1733, James Oglethorpe founded Georgia colony at Savannah
>
> February 12, 1775, (The only foreign-born First Lady) Louisa Catherine
> Johnson Adams, wife of President John Quincy Adams, born in London.
> She died in Washington at age 77.
>
> February 12, 1789, American patriot leader Ethan Allen died after
> drunkenly falling out of a sleigh crossing frozen Lake Champlain.
I wondered why they were the GREEN mountain boys.
> February 12, 1797, Franz Haydn's Austrian Hymn, from one of his string
> quartets, was 1st performed for the Emperor Francis II's fifth birthday.
> It is the melody for 'Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles.' [Nazi troops
> entered Austria on February 12, 1938.] It is also the melody to which
> we sing the popular hymn "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken."
Oh yeah, real popular--right up there with "Tie Me Kangaroo Down."
> February 12, 1804, Immanuel Kant, German philosopher [Critique of Pure
> Reason] dies at 79 in Königsberg, East Prussia. He supposedly never
> went over 30 miles from his home.
Yes you can. No I Kant. Yes you can.
> February 12, 1809, Both Charles Darwin & Abraham Lincoln were born on
> the same day. Lincoln's Hardin County, Kentucky, birth-house had windows
> with glass and a second story [hardly a log cabin] and was close to
> Jefferson Davis' 1808 Todd county birthplace. The Republican candidate
> for President in 1860 was a high-dollar Chicago lawyer who was, like his
> wife, a clothes-horse. He had dozens of silk scarves and stove-pipe
> hats. Lincoln suffered from severe depression (they called it
> melancholia in those days), so severe in fact that unlike most men of
> his time he would not carry a pocket knife for fear that he might do
> himself harm.
"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."
--Abraham Lincoln
> February 12, 1818, Chile declared independence from Spain.
>
> February 12, 1828, English Sonnet writer George Meredith born.
>
> February 12, 1851, Australian gold rush triggered when explorer Edward
> Hargraves discovers gold at Summerhill Creek in New South Wales.
>
> February 12, 1884, Alice Lee Roosevelt, the oldest child of Theodore
> Roosevelt, was born on this day in 1884 in New York City. Her mother,
> Alice Lee Roosevelt, died two days later. Her father never mentioned her
> mother again, remarrying two years later. Alice the daughter received
> national attention as a teen-ager in the White House. Her father said
> to her critics, "I can either govern the country or govern Alice. I cannot
> do both." She married Nicholas Longworth, who eventually became
> Speaker of the House of Representatives. She was a persistent critic of
> her cousins Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. She is famous for having
> had a couch needlepoint cushion which read, "If you don't have anything
> nice to say about anybody, come sit by me." She died in 1980.
No Teddy Bears for her.
> ---------------------------------------------------
> http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/0223.htm
>
> February 23, 155, St. Polycarp, disciple of Apostle John,
> arrested & burned at the stake
>
> February 23, 303, Roman Emperor Diocletian ordered
> the general persecution of Christians.
>
> February 23, 1455, Johannes Gutenberg printed the 1st Bible.
>
> February 23, 1533, Montaigne born.
>
> February 23, 1554, Lady Jane GREY's father executed
>
> February 23, 1633, English diarist Samuel Pepys was born in London.
> On his 36th birthday, as member of King Charles II's civil service, he
> found himself in Westminster Abbey for the exhumation of the body
> of the French queen Katherine of Valois, and he kissed the cadaver.
> Pepys wrote that on that day "I did kiss a queen."
"Katherine of Valois" :: "took her fine saliva"
> February 23, 1649, John Blow, composer of the first English opera,
> Venus and Adonis, baptized
>
> February 23, 1685, Georg Friedrich Händel born the same year (50 miles
> away) as J.S. Bach. Händel was a voracious eater and once asked his COOK
> to prepare a meal for seven. When the COOK asked who the company was,
> he replied, "What company?"
Vandalay Industries
> February 23, 1732, Händel's Messiah, first performed.
>
> February 23, 1781, Irish-born ironmaster & signer of the Declaration of
> Independence from Pennsylvania, George Taylor diesd
> .
> February 23, 1787, Emma Willard, American educator of young women born
>
> February 23, 1792, Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter, dies at 68.
Yeah, uncle Josh. Some say it was the paint thinner.
> February 23, 1820, the Cato Street Conspiracy (a plan to assassinate
> the entire British cabinet of ministers) foiled.
>
> February 23, 1821, John Keats died of tuberculosis in the rooms he was
> sharing with Joseph Severn near the Spanish Steps in Rome. Keats' publisher
> did a fund subscription to allow the poet to go to the warmer Italian
> climates. Severn, a painter who wanted to go to Rome, was engaged to
> accompany Keats. Severn said they were halfway to Rome before he realized
> his companion was virtually a dead man. Toward the end of his suffering,
> Keats became obsessive about his fiancée Fanny Brawne and her supposed
> infidelities that even the sight of her letters would send him hemorrhaging.
> Keats' artistic philosophy was based on the notion of light-and-shade
> beauty, i.e., that beauty could be found in the melancholy as well as the
> joyful. But he told Severn that that philosophy had failed him at the end;
> he could find no beauty in his deathbed agony. In those last days, Leigh
> Hunt wrote a beautiful letter to Severn, asking him to assure Keats that
> although they could do nothing to alleviate his suffering, his friends back
> in England were standing at the side of the road, holding their hats in
> their hands as he walked down the road that all would eventually walk
> down.
>
> February 23, 1836, siege of the Alamo began
We had forgotte.
> February 23, 1848, ex-President John Quincy Adams collapsed at his desk
> (he was a Whig member of the House of Representatives for 17 years
> following his leaving the Presidency). He died in the Speaker's chamber.
>
> February 23, 1861, voters in the State of Texas vote to secede
> as Lincoln arrives secretly to take office.
They seceded? So that means Texas is invading Iraq. Whew!
> February 23, 1863, Lake Victoria determined to be source of the Nile
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Chapter 1Kings.7
>
> 21: And he set up the PILLARS in the porch of the TEMPLE: and
> he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and
> he set up the left pillar, and he called the name thereof Boaz.
>
> 22: And upon the top of the PILLARS was LILY work:
> so was the work of the PILLARS finished.
>
> 25: It stood upon twelve OXEN, three looking toward the NORTH,
> and three looking toward the WEST,
> and three looking toward the SOUTH,
> and three looking toward the EAST:
> and the sea was set above upon them,
> and all their hinder parts were inward.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> North, East, West & South
> Nor?ri, Austri, Vestri & Su?ri
>
> Brisings: Alfrigg, Berling, Dvalin, & GREYr (the fourth)
Now Jenny Diver, ho, ho, yeah, Sukey Tawdry
Ooh, Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown
Oh, the line forms on the right, babe
> <<The Brisings : The Brisings are not really gods or ?urses. The Brisings
> are simply the name given to the 4 dwarves (like Alvis): Alfrigg, Dvalin,
> Berling, GREYr whom either forged or owned the necklace 'Brisingamen' that
> Freyja now possesses. There are many versions told of how she came
> to possess it, but it was most certainly through some sexual act either
> promised or performed with the Brisings. In some tales she seduces and in
> others she is raped. There is an even a version where the Brisings are given
> the names Nor?ri, Su?ri, Austri & Vestri (North, South, East & West).
> This last should be noted because of the hint that the Brisingamen is a
> representation of encircling the earth (Midgar?r).>>
>
> http://www.timelessmyths.com/norse/beings.html#Brisings
>
> The Brisings or Bristlings were the name of the four dwarfs or dwarven
> brothers. They were named Alfrigg, Berling, Dvalin and Grer. The dwarfs were
> responsible for creating a beautiful gold necklace (some say it was a belt),
> known as the Brísingamen (Brisingamen). It was so beautiful that the goddess
> Freyja wanted the Brisingamen for herself. The story of Freyja and the
> Brisingamen was told more fully, in the work known as Sottr Thattr, written
> about 1400. At this time Freyja was Odin's favourite mistress. I don't know
> what was special about this necklace, but it was probably to enhance the
> wearer's beauty, but Freyja was already considered to be the most
> beautiful woman/goddess in the world.
>
> One night, Freyja left her bed and her palace, wandering through the woods
> and came before a cave where she heard dwarves working on a piece of
> jewellery. Loki secretly followed the goddess, spying on Freyja. When
> Freyja saw the Brisingamen, she became obsessed with the beautifully
> crafted necklace. The dwarfs refused to accept Freyja's gold and silver for
> the necklace. The Brisings would give the goddess the Brisingamen only
> if she slept with each one of them. In desperation to possess the
> Brisingamen, Freyja willingly agreed to their price. For four nights,
> she spent a night in each of the dwarf's bed.
"I want to thank all the little people."
> Loki discovered Freyja's wantonness and informed Odin of her conduct.
> Odin was disgusted that Freyja was acting like a whore, by selling herself
> for the Brisingamen. Odin had Loki steal the Brisingamen from the Freyja.
> Most people could not enter her hall, called Sessrumnir, without Freyja's
> permission, no matter how powerful a god or giant. Loki entered Sessrumnir,
> by tranforming himself into a flea. Freyja was sleeping, while still wearing
> the Brisingamen. As a flea, Loki bit so that the goddess would turn around
> in the bed. This allowed Loki's to unlock the clasp and slip the necklace
> off Freyja. When Freyja awoke and found that her necklace was missing, she
> knew that Loki had stolen them. And Freyja also knew that the sly god would
> not have done so without Odin's order. Freyja went and confronted Odin,
> demanding the return of the Brisingamen. Freyja told Odin that it was
> disgraceful that he would take her necklace. Odin countered that it was
> she who was disgraceful, since she had slept with four dwarves to gain
> the Brisingamen. Odin agreed to return the Brisingamen to Freyja, on the
> condition that she starts wars in the world of men. Freyja had no
> choice, if she wanted the Brisingamen returned to her.>>
Fairies, black, GREY, green, and white
--Merry Wives of Windsor: V, v
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> The Brisingamen was frequently mentioned
> from works earlier than the Sorla Thattr.
I tried those in Scrabble. Busted.
> In Prose Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson, the Brisingamen was
> mentioned several times. It mentioned that Freyja was the owner
> of the Brisingamen. Later, it tells of how Loki stole the Brisingamen,
> which was different from the Sorla Thattr. Loki tried to escape
> from Sessrumnir with the Brisingamen.
> However Heimdall, the guardian of Bifrost (Rainbow Bridge), had keen
> eyes and saw Loki's theft. Heimdall immediately set out on pursuit, caught
> and fought with Loki at Singastein. Heimdall recovered the stolen necklace
> and returned the Brisingamen to Freyja.
>
> According to the Thrymskvida, a poem from the Poetic Edda, when Thor
> went to recover his stolen hammer from the giants, Thor had to disguise
> himself as Freyja and as bride to the giant Thrym. To complete his
> disguise, Thor had to borrow the Brisingamen from Freyja
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.eapoe.org/papers/psbbooks/pb19871f.htm
>
> <<By 1913 a plaster model for the [Poe] monument was completed
> and shipped from Rome to Friedrichshagen near Berlin,
> where it was to be cast in bronze. At a Custom's warehouse on
> the border between Austria and Germany disaster struck: fire completely
> destroyed the model for the Poe statue; the work was uninsured.
> Undaunted, Sir Moses began again to model the likeness of Poe.
Gray falcon (Zo["o]l.) the peregrine falcon.
> Incredibly, this second model was broken into fragments when an
> earthquake shook Rome in April 1915. Again his loss was uninsured,
> but once more Sir Moses resumed work on the monument.
>
> In January 1916, Sir Moses informed the Association that
>
> . . . My monument to our greatest poet, Edgar Allan Poe, is now
> quite completed in every detail, excepting the inscription to be carved
> in the pedestal. The latter I shall make in the GREY volcanic stone
> called Pepernio, which I am quarrying in the Alban Hills, near Merino,
> and the statue in bronze of the very best quality, is now about to be
> cast in bronze here in Rome.
>
> The statue is entirely different from the first one I made. When
> I get the inscription from the committee, I will introduce them in
> lapidary style on the pedestal, and then my work will be virtually
> finished, excepting the careful supervision of the entire work in
> bronze and stone until it can be boxed and sent home.>>
> ---------------------------------------------
> Art Neuendorffer
GREY SEAL
Why's it never light on my lAwN
Why does it rAiN ANd never say good-day to the nEw-bOrn
On the big screen they shOwEd us the sun
But not as bright in life as the real OnE
It's never quite the same as the real OnE
ANd tell me GREY seal
How dOEs it feel
To be so wise
To see through eyes
That only see what's real
Tell me GREY seal
I never leArNed why meteors were fOrmEd
I only farmed in schools that were so wArN and torn
If ANyOnEe cAN cry then so cAN I
I read books ANd draw life from the eye
All my life is drAwiNgs from the eye
Your mission bells were wrought by ANcient men
The roots were fOrmEd by twisted roots
Your roots were twisted then
I was rEbOrn bEfOre all life could die
The PhOEnix bird will leave this world to fly
If the PhOEnix bird cAN fly then so cAN I
--Taupin/John
greG REYnolds
[You make me miss my college kid, an LCM Greyhound.]
lyra
> Art Neuendorffer wrote:
<this is some of it>
> > GRYPHON, n. [OE. GRIFFIN, griffon, griffoun, F. griffon, fr. L.
> > gryphus, equiv to GRYPS] 1. (Myth.) A fabulous monster, half lion &
> > half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian & Roman works of art.
> >
> > THE GRIFFIN of GRAY's Inn
> > http://www.online-law.co.uk/bar/grays_inn/griffin.html
> >
> > The arms of the Society are - Sable a Griffin sergeant
> > or, that is a golden griffin standing on a black field.
> > It is thought to be borrowed from Richard Aungier, thrice
> > Treasurer of the Inn, at the turn of the sixteenth
> > century, and it is a more spectacular heraldic device
> > than the plain bars of the de GREY arms which were
> > previously used - they may be seen above the main
> > entrance to the Treasury Office in South Square. A GRIFFIN
> > is the offspring of a lion and eagle with the body of
> > the former and the head and shoulders of the latter,
> > but 'also with animal ears. It is sacred to the SUN, being
> > seen, for example, on the Temple of Apollo at Miletus
> > and was used by the ancients to guard TREASURE.
"The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment"
(by Thomas GRAY)
from Mr. Evans's Specimens of the Welsh Poetry;
London, 1764, Quarto.
Owen succeeded his Father GRIFFIN
in the principality of
North-Wales, A. D. 1120. This battle was fought near forty
Years afterwards.
Owen's praise demands my song,
Owen swift, and Owen strong;
Fairest flower of Roderic's stem,
Gwyneth's shield and Britain's gem.
He nor heaps his brooded stores,
Nor on all profusely pours;
Lord of every regal art,
Liberal hand and open heart.
> > Picture of DORIAN GRAY - Oscar Wilde
> >
> > <<I had drawn you as Paris in DAINTY armour,
> > and as Adonis with huntsman's cloak and polished BOAR-SPEAR.
> > Crowned with heavy lotus-blossoms you had sat on the prow
> > of ADRIAN's barge, gazing across the green turbid NILE.
> > You had leaned over the still pool of some Greek woodland and seen
> > in the water's SILENT SILVER the marvel of your own face.
>
> Gray buck (Zo["o]l.), the chickara.
>
> > Why should I not love her?
> > Harry, I do love her. She is everything to me in life.
> > Night after night I go to see her play. One evening she is Rosalind,
> > and the next evening she is Imogen. I have seen her die in the gloom
> > of an Italian tomb, sucking the POISON FROM HER LOVER'S LIPS.
> > I have watched her wandering through the FOREST of ARDEN,
> > disguised as a pretty boy in hose and doublet and DAINTY cap.
> > She has been mad, and has come into the presence of a guilty king,
> > and given him rue to wear and bitter herbs to taste of. >>
Oscar Wilde's poem for Ellen Terry...
upon seeing her as Portia in The Merchant of Venice
Portia
I marvel not Bassanio was so bold
To peril all he had upon the lead,
Or that proud Aragon bent low his head,
Or that Morocco's fiery heart grew cold:
For in that gorgeous dress of beaten gold,
Which is more golden that the golden sun,
No woman Veronese looked upon
Was half so fair as thou whom I behold.
Yet fairer when with wisdom as your shield
The sober-suited lawyer's gown you donned,
And would not let the laws of Venice yield
Antonio's heart to that accursed Jew-
O, Portia! Take my heart; it is thou due:
I think I will not quarrel with the Bond.
Poem: Phedre
(To Sarah Bernhardt)
How vain and dull this common world must seem
To such a One as thou, who should'st have talked
At Florence with Mirandola, or walked
Through the cool olives of the Academe:
Thou should'st have gathered reeds from a green stream
For Goat-foot Pan's shrill piping, and have played
With the white girls in that Phaeacian glade
Where grave Odysseus wakened from his dream.
> > ..................................................................
> > CHAPTER XXXVIII.
> >
> > MAKING them pens was a distressid tough job,
..................................................................
> > Why, Huck, s'pose it IS considerble trouble? -- what you
> > going to do? -- how you going to get around it?
> > Jim's GOT to do his inscription and coat of arms. They all do."
shakspeare's quill (anagram)
square shape...skill?
shakespeare's quill
queer shape's a skill?
shakespeare quill
a queer shape... kills?
> > _Ivanhoe_ - Sir Walter Scott
> >
> > <<If thou knowest ever a good lay, thou shalt be welcome
> > to a nook of pasty at Copmanhurst so long as I serve
> > the chapel of St Dunstan, which, please God, shall be
> > till I change my GREY covering for one of green turf.>>
"...he" (Kelly) "traveled around Dee's favourite
principality, Wales, where he claimed to have unearthed various
valuable artefacts at Glastonbury Abbey (a key site in Arthurian
legend, of course). Kelly's discoveries included 2 powders of
projection for the transmutation of metals, an elixir (delivered to
Dee in 1588), "glasses" and "apparatus" (doubtless alchemical) plus,
last but not least, the Book of St Dunstan.
St Dunstan, who died in 988, was born near Glastonbury, was a
musician, scribe and metal worker and was patron saint of goldsmiths -
a figure, if ever there was one, with whom the Elizabethan alchemist
could surely identify."
http://map.twentythree.us/dee.html
..........................................................................
> > THE LORD COBHAM (THE LOLLARD) AFFAIR and GRUFFYDD VYCHAN
> > http://family-tree.hypermart.net/lord_cobham.htm
> >
> > <<Sir Gruffydd was well respected and liked by his neighbours, but in
> > 1447 he was suspected of holding correspondence with adherents to the
> > House of York and the then Queen, Margaret of Anjou, obtained a warrant
"Ode for Music" (by Thomas GRAY)
But hark! the portals sound and, pacing forth
With solemn steps and slow,
High potentates and dames of royal birth
And mitred fathers in long order go:
Great Edward with the lilies on his brow
From haughty Gallia torn,
And sad Chatillon, on her bridal morn
That wept her bleeding love, and princely Clare,
And Anjou's heroine, and the paler rose,
The rival of her crown and of her woes,
And either Henry there,
The murthered saint and the majestic lord,
That broke the bonds of Rome,
(Their tears, their little triumphs o'er, (accomp.)
Their human passions now no more,
Save charity, that glows beyond the tomb).
All that on Granta's fruitful plain
Rich streams of regal bounty poured,
And bade these awful fanes and turrets rise,
To hail their Fitzroy's festal morning come;
And thus they speak in soft accord
The liquid language of the skies.
> > from the treasury and sent to Henry GREY, Earl of Powys to have him
> > arrested. Henry GREY was the son of Lord John GREY, Earl of Tankerville,
> > who would have been at Agincourt with Sir Gruffydd and who died in 1421.
...............................................................................
> > He(Odin)often broke his oaths. And he is far more popular with the noble
> > class & warriors than he is with the peasants & working class. On
> > Ragnarok, he will enter battle with the giant wolf Fenrir. After a long
> > and hard-fought battle, Fenrir will overcome and devour Odin.>>
"The Descent of Odin. An Ode" (by Thomas GRAY)
(From the Norse-Tongue,) in Bartholinus,
de causis contemnendae mortis; Hafniae,
1689, Quarto.
Upreis Odinn allda gautr, &c.
O. Yet a while my call obey.
Prophetess, awake and say,
What virgins these, in speechless woe,
That bend to earth their solemn brow,
That their flaxen tresses tear,
And snowy veils, that float in air.
Tell me whence their sorrows rose:
Then I leave thee to repose.
Pr. Ha! no Traveller art thou,
King of Men, I know thee now,
Mightiest of a mighty line--
O. No boding maid of skill divine
Art thou, nor prophetess of good;
But mother of the giant-brood!
Pr. Hie thee hence and boast at home,
That never shall enquirer come
To break my iron-sleep again,
Till Lok has burst his tenfold chain
.............................................................................
> > February 23, 1792, Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter, dies at
68.
>
> Yeah, uncle Josh. Some say it was the paint thinner.
................................................................................
> > In those last days, Leigh
> > Hunt wrote a beautiful letter to Severn, asking him to assure Keats that
> > although they could do nothing to alleviate his suffering, his friends back
> > in England were standing at the side of the road, holding their hats in
> > their hands as he walked down the road that all would eventually walk
> > down.
...............................................................................
> Your mission bells were wrought by ANcient men
> The roots were fOrmEd by twisted roots
> Your roots were twisted then
> I was rEbOrn bEfOre all life could die
> The PhOEnix bird will leave this world to fly
> If the PhOEnix bird cAN fly then so cAN I
> --Taupin/John
( Reynolds, Keats, and mission!)
Last Stanza from John Keats's
Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds
Away ye horrid moods,
Moods of one's mind! You know I hate them well,
You know I'd sooner be a clapping bell
To some Kamschatkan missionary church,
Than with these horrid moods be left in lurch.
Do you get health-and Tom the same-I'll dance,
And from detested moods in new romance
Take refuge.-
> > February 12, 1828, English Sonnet writer George Meredith born.
> >
Selected Writings of William Sharp, Vol. IV , Literary Geography
http://www.sundown.pair.com/Sharp/WSVol_4/meredith.htm
ON just such a van-bird day as sung in those lines of the
poet-romancist himself I take up my pen to write of "The Country of
George Meredith." The country of George Meredith: a fascinating theme
indeed! For the true Meredithian, there is no living writer so
saturated with the spirit of nature in England as this rare poet. What
other has sung with so vibrant and exultant a note as this great
analyst and portrayer of men and women?-- who with all his
Aristophanic laughter and keen Voltairian spirit feels to the core
what he has himself so finely expressed . . . that nothing but poetry
makes romances passable, "for poetry is the everlastingly and
embracingly human; without it, your fictions are flat foolishness."
But what a country it is--how wide its domain, how evasive its
frontiers! I doubt if any living writer is as intimate with
nature-life, with what we mean by "country-life." Certainly none can
so flash manifold aspect into sudden revelation. Not even Richard
Jeffries knew nature more intimately, though he gave his whole thought
to what with Meredith is but a beautiful and ever-varying background.
I recollect Grant Allen, himself as keen a lover and accomplished a
student of nature as England could show, speaking of this singular
intimacy in one who had no pretension to be a man of science.
And that recalls to me a delightful afternoon illustrative of what
has just been said. Some twelve or fourteen years ago, when Grant
Allen (whom I did not then know) was residing at The Nook, Dorking, I
happened to be on a few days' visit to George Meredith at his
cottage-home near Burford Bridge, a few miles away. On the Sunday
morning I walked over the field-ways to Dorking, and found Grant Allen
at home. It was a pleasant meeting. We had friends in common, were
colleagues on the staff of two London literary "weeklies," and I had
recently enjoyed favourably reviewing a new book by this prolific and
always interesting and delightful writer.
So, with these "credentials," enhanced by the fact that I came as a
guest of his friend, I found a cordial welcome, and began there and
then with that most winsome personality a friendship which I have
always accounted one of the best things that literary life has brought
me. After luncheon, Grant Allen said he would accompany me back by Box
Hill; as, apart from the pleasure of seeing Mr. Meredith, he
particularly wanted to ask him about some disputed point in natural
history (a botanical point of some kind, in connection, I think, with
the lovely spring flower "Love-in-a-Mist"--for which Meredith had a
special affection, and had fine slips of it in his garden) which he
had not been able to observe satisfactorily for himself.
I frankly expressed my surprise that a specialist such as my host
should wish to consult any other than a colleague on a matter of
intimate knowledge and observation; but was assured that there were
"not half a dozen men living to whom I would go in preference to
George Meredith on a point of this kind. He knows the intimate facts
of countryside life as very few of us do after the most specific
training.
I don't know whether he could describe that greenfinch in the wild
cherry yonder in the terms of an ornithologist and botanist--in fact,
I'm pretty sure he couldn't. But you may rest assured there is no
ornithologist living who knows more
about the finch of real life than George Meredith does--its
appearance, male and fermale, its song, its habits, its dates of
coming and going, the places where it builds, how its nest is made,
how many eggs it lays and what--like they are, what it feeds on, what
its song is like before and after mating, and when and where it may
best be heard, and so forth.
As for the wild cherry . . . perhaps he doesn't know much about it
technically (very likely he does, I may add! . . . it's never safe
with 'our wily friend' to take for granted that he doesn't know more
about any subject than any one else does!) . . . but if any one could
say when the first blossoms will appear and how long they will last,
how many petals each blossom has, what variations in colour and what
kind of smell they have, then it's he and no other better. And as for
how he would describe that cherry-tree . . . well, you've read Richard
Feverel and Love in a Valley, and that should tell you everything!"
(verses from) Love in a Valley
Doves of the fir-wood walling high our red roof
Through the long noon coo, crooning through the coo.
Loose droop the leaves, and down the sleepy road-way
Sometimes pipes a chaffinch; loose droops the blue.
Cows flap a slow tail knee-deep in the river,
Breathless, given up to sun and gnat and fly.
Nowhere is she seen; and if I see her nowhere,
Lightning may come, straight rains and tiger sky.
Gossips count her faults; they scour a narrow chamber
Where there is no window, read not heaven or her.
'When she was a tiny,' one aged woman quavers,
Plucks at my heart and leads me by the ear.
Faults she had once as she learnt to run and tumbled:
Faults of feature some see, beauty not complete.
Yet, good gossips, beauty that makes holy
Earth and air, may have faults from head to feet.
Soft new beech-leaves, up to beamy April
Spreading bough on bough a primrose mountain, you
Lucid in the moon, raise lilies to the skyfields,
Youngest green transfused in silver shining through:
Fairer than the lily, than the wild white cherry:
Fair as in image my seraph love appears
Borne to me by dreams when dawn is at my eye-lids:
Fair as in the flesh she swims to me on tears.
Art Neuendorffer
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > GREYHOUND has no connection with the colour GREY.
> > It is the GRAYhound, or hound which hunts the GRAY or badger
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> badgered:
> \Gray\, n.
> 2. An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of
salmon.
> SO, Art, these dogs can hunt horse, badger, or salmon (rushdie).
Don't forget that "at night all cats are GREY"
> Art Neuendorffer wrote:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > <<And so down to the heart of [Stratford] the nexus of buildings
> > dominated by the GREY-stone tower of the Gild-Chapel built by
> > Hugh Clopton. When Leland was here,
> >
> > 'about the body of this chapel was
> > curiously painted the Dance of Death.'
> >
> > The interior was sadly ravaged by the Reformation - paintings
> > white-washed. We have with much effort recovered something
> > of the painted DOOM upon the chancel-arch.>>
> >
> > _William Shakespeare, a biography_ by A.L. Rowse. p. 18
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> badgered:
> How did an illiterate boob like Clopton build that tower? Masonry?
Masonry.
> > _Ulysses_ by Joyce
> > Their WIGS to show the GREY matter. Brains on their sleeve like the
> > statue in Glasnevin. Believe he does some literary work for the Express
> > with Gabriel Conroy. Wellread fellow. Myles Crawford began on the
> > Independent. Funny the way those newspaper men VEER about
> > when they get wind of a new opening.
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> I thought you said grey mattress. Never mind.
You're obviously wearing your brain on your sleeve.
> > -- Thanks, Stephen said. I can't wear them if they are GREY.
> >
> > -- He can't wear them, Buck Mulligan told his face in the mirror.
> > He kills his mother but he can't wear GREY trousers.
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> And to think that Joyce would have shorter posts than yours.
He has shorter pants (I don't know if they are grey).
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Can't wear GREY until a year & a day: June 24, 1904
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > BloomsDay of James Joyce's _Ulysses_:
> > Thursday June 16, 1904 exactly 301 (52 week "years")
> > after Oxford's death Thursday June 24, 1604
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> Thursday has no feel.
> Sunday has a feel.
I can see you're a touchy feely kinda guy.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > James Joyce's _Finnegans Wake_ p. 31
> >
> > Holybones of Saint Hubert how our red brother of Pour-
> > ingrainia would audibly fume did he know that we have for sur-
> > trusty bailiwick a turnpiker who is by turns a pikebailer no sel-
> > domer than an earwigger For he kinned Jom Pill
> > with his court so gray and his haunts in his house in the mourning.
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite.
Pure schmaltz.
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Where did WSC and Roosevelt first meet?
> >
> > GRAY's Inn, London (July 29, 1918)
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> It was handicapped equipped.
That's a Fala-cy.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Daniel Defoe "wanted poster" discription:
> > "a middle-sized spare man about 40 years old, of a brown complexion
> > and dark brown-coloured hair, but weares a WIG; A HOOKED NOSE,
> > a sharp chin, GREY EYES, and a large mole near his mouth."
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> Flared nostrils? Hair like a horse? No, haven't seen him.
Well, keep your eyes open.
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > Shakespeare's _Poems_(1640) -- I. B.
> >
> > HIS EVERLIVIN{G W}OR[kes]
> >
> > {W}
> > VERONIH{I}LVERI(u)S
> > {G}
> >
> > W I G , v. t. To censure or rebuke;
> > to hold up to reprobation; to scold.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > http://www.student.kun.nl/l.derooy/index.html?alice4.html
> >
> > <<When Lewis Carroll wrote "Through the Looking Glass",
> > Tenniel objected to a chapter, so Carroll dropped the entire episode.
> > This chapter was called "A WASP in a WIG".
> >
> > So now that I am old and GREY,
> > And all my hair is nearly gone,
> > They take my WIG from me and say
> > 'How can you put such rubbish on?'
> >
> > And still, whenever I appear,
> > They hoot at me and call me 'PIG!'
> > And that is why they do it, dear,
> > Because I wear a yellow WIG."
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> Toupee or not toupee?
Don't hold it in Greg, you might get urinemitoses.
> > Capilet (GREY). The horse of Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
> > (Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, iii. 4.)
> > A capilet or capulet is a small wen on the horse's hock.
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> Wen?
Wen E.Ver.
Wen [AS. w[=e]n.] One of the runes (?) adopted into the Anglo-Saxon, or Old
English, alphabet. It had the value of modern English w.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > <<Deadly Desert: This terrible GREY, sandy wasteland separates the
> > Land of Oz in the west from the fairylands beyond. The deadly sands
> > of this desert will turn living flesh to dust in an instant.>>
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> Bring aloe.
Bung aloe.
HAMLET To what BASE uses we may return, Horatio! Why may
not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander,
till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > Ó?inn: Hárbar?r........."Hoar Beard" or "GREY Beard"
> >
> > <<Myth: Odin is the god of the sky, and a god of war and death, and of
> > poetry and wisdom. He is the son of Bor and Bestla, and fathered the
> > gods Balder, Hod, and Hermod with his wife Frigg. He was also the father
> > of Thor with the goddess Grid, and had a son named Vidar with the
> > giantess Grid. Odin is also the god of creation, as he and his two
> > brothers created the world and it's inhabitants from the body of their
> > grandfather Ymir. He resides in his hall Valaskjalf ("shelf of the
> > slain") where his throne Hlidskjalf is located, where he watches over
> > the nine worlds. There, he is accompanied by two wolves, Freki and Geri,
> > to whom he gives all of his food, for Odin drinks nothing but wine. His
> > other two companions are the ravens Huginn & Muninn, who bring him
> > tidings. He also spends much time in Valhalla, where we splits have of
> > the slain warriors with Freyja, thus also earning the name "father of
> > the slain". Here, he spends every evening enjoying a great feast with
> > his Einherjar. His prized possesions include the spear Gungnir, which
> > never misses it's mark, and the magnificent 8-legged stallion Sleipnir,
> > both of which were presents from Loki. Odin is described as having one
> > eye, since he traded the other for a drink from the Well of Wisdom. He
> > has GREY hair & a beard, often described as being somber & grim, and
> > wearing a wide-brimmed hat. He hung himslef on the World Tree Yggdrasil
> > for nine straight days, pierced by his spear Gungnir, in order to learn
> > nine powerful songs & the secrets of the 18 runes.
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> That'll make ya think.
Here is the secret of 1 rune:
Wen [AS. w[=e]n.] One of the runes (?) adopted into the Anglo-Saxon, or Old
English, alphabet. It had the value of modern English w.
And here is a powerful song:
Salagadoola means mechicka booleroo
But the thingmabob that does the job is
bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > The Taming of the Shrew Act 3, Scene 2
> >
> > TRANIO We'll over-reach the GREYbeard, Gremio,
> > The narrow-prying father, Minola,
> > The QUAINT musician, amorous Licio;
> > All for my master's sake, Lucentio.
>
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> Bloody thou ART, bloody will be thy end.
I need more aloe.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > http://www.lemonysnicket.com/
> >
> > Lemony Snicket was born before you were, and is likely to die before
> > you as well. His family has roots in a part of the country which is now
> > underwater, and his childhood was spent in the relative splendor of the
> > Snicket Villa which has since become a factory, a fortress and a
> > pharmacy and is now, alas, someone else's villa. To the untrained eye,
> > Mr. Snicket's hometown would not appear to be filled with secrets.
> > Untrained eyes have been wrong before.
>
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> Oh yeah, he gets to hold the horses while Shakespeare gets to
> write Falstaff into more plays. Who's the boob this time?
Wen?
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/0212.htm
> >
> > February 12, 1554, Lady Jane GREY and her husband Guilford Dudley were
> > executed at the Tower of London. Lady Jane GREY's body was buried,
> > along with Dudley's, in St Peter's ad Vincula church, near those
> > of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, two other executed queens.
> > The historian Macauley called it the saddest spot on Earth.
> >
> > February 12, 1567, Thomas Campion born.
> > He did some musical settings of some Shakespeare poems.
>
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> On his first day? Precocious!
Postcocious
> > February 12, 1588, John Winthrop,
> > 1st governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, born.
> >
> > February 12, 1663, Cotton Mather, born in Boston. He wrote in favor of
> > such modern improvements as smallpox inoculation but also did much
> > preaching and writing that may have precipitated the Salem witch trials.
> >
> > February 12, 1709, the Scottish seaman Alexander Selkirk rescued after
> > over four years of being on Fernandez Island in the South Pacific. His
> > story was the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> Don't call me Friday.
How does Friday feel?
> > February 12, 1733, James Oglethorpe founded Georgia colony at Savannah
> >
> > February 12, 1775, (The only foreign-born First Lady) Louisa Catherine
> > Johnson Adams, wife of President John Quincy Adams, born in London.
> > She died in Washington at age 77.
> >
> > February 12, 1789, American patriot leader Ethan Allen died after
> > drunkenly falling out of a sleigh crossing frozen Lake Champlain.
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> I wondered why they were the GREEN mountain boys.
You sleigh me, Greg!
> > February 12, 1797, Franz Haydn's Austrian Hymn, from one of his string
> > quartets, was 1st performed for the Emperor Francis II's fifth birthday.
> > It is the melody for 'Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles.' [Nazi troops
> > entered Austria on February 12, 1938.] It is also the melody to which
> > we sing the popular hymn "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken."
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> Oh yeah, real popular--right up there with "Tie Me Kangaroo Down."
Obviously two more powerful song you need to learn.
> > February 12, 1804, Immanuel Kant, German philosopher [Critique of Pure
> > Reason] dies at 79 in Königsberg, East Prussia. He supposedly never
> > went over 30 miles from his home.
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> Yes you can. No I Kant. Yes you can.
NOAA Kant.
> > February 12, 1809, Both Charles Darwin & Abraham Lincoln were born on
> > the same day. Lincoln's Hardin County, Kentucky, birth-house had windows
> > with glass and a second story [hardly a log cabin] and was close to
> > Jefferson Davis' 1808 Todd county birthplace. The Republican candidate
> > for President in 1860 was a high-dollar Chicago lawyer who was, like his
> > wife, a clothes-horse. He had dozens of silk scarves and stove-pipe
> > hats. Lincoln suffered from severe depression (they called it
> > melancholia in those days), so severe in fact that unlike most men of
> > his time he would not carry a pocket knife for fear that he might do
> > himself harm.
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> "No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of
kittens."
> --Abraham Lincoln
But how many are going to St. Ives?
> > February 12, 1818, Chile declared independence from Spain.
> >
> > February 12, 1828, English Sonnet writer George Meredith born.
> >
> > February 12, 1851, Australian gold rush triggered when explorer Edward
> > Hargraves discovers gold at Summerhill Creek in New South Wales.
> >
> > February 12, 1884, Alice Lee Roosevelt, the oldest child of Theodore
> > Roosevelt, was born on this day in 1884 in New York City. Her mother,
> > Alice Lee Roosevelt, died two days later. Her father never mentioned her
> > mother again, remarrying two years later. Alice the daughter received
> > national attention as a teen-ager in the White House. Her father said
> > to her critics, "I can either govern the country or govern Alice. I
cannot
> > do both." She married Nicholas Longworth, who eventually became
> > Speaker of the House of Representatives. She was a persistent critic of
> > her cousins Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. She is famous for having
> > had a couch needlepoint cushion which read, "If you don't have anything
> > nice to say about anybody, come sit by me." She died in 1980.
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> No Teddy Bears for her.
Her brother was Kermit so she probably had a Fozzy Bear.
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/0223.htm
> >
> > February 23, 155, St. Polycarp, disciple of Apostle John,
> > arrested & burned at the stake
> >
> > February 23, 303, Roman Emperor Diocletian ordered
> > the general persecution of Christians.
> >
> > February 23, 1455, Johannes Gutenberg printed the 1st Bible.
> >
> > February 23, 1533, Montaigne born.
> >
> > February 23, 1554, Lady Jane GREY's father executed
> >
> > February 23, 1633, English diarist Samuel Pepys was born in London.
> > On his 36th birthday, as member of King Charles II's civil service, he
> > found himself in Westminster Abbey for the exhumation of the body
> > of the French queen Katherine of Valois, and he kissed the cadaver.
> > Pepys wrote that on that day "I did kiss a queen."
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> "Katherine of Valois" :: "took her fine saliva"
Did it remove the double sided tape?
> > February 23, 1649, John Blow, composer of the first English opera,
> > Venus and Adonis, baptized
> >
> > February 23, 1685, Georg Friedrich Händel born the same year (50 miles
> > away) as J.S. Bach. Händel was a voracious eater and once asked his COOK
> > to prepare a meal for seven. When the COOK asked who the company was,
> > he replied, "What company?"
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> Vandalay Industries
And YOU want to be my latex salesman!
> > February 23, 1732, Händel's Messiah, first performed.
> >
> > February 23, 1781, Irish-born ironmaster & signer of the Declaration of
> > Independence from Pennsylvania, George Taylor diesd
> > .
> > February 23, 1787, Emma Willard, American educator of young women born
> >
> > February 23, 1792, Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter, dies at 68.
"Greg Reynolds" <eve...@core.com> wrote:
> Yeah, uncle Josh. Some say it was the paint thinner.
Is that what you've been sniffing, Greg?
July 16, 1723, Sir Joshua Reynolds born.
July 16, 1054, the Great Schism between the Western and Eastern churches
began over rival claims of universal pre-eminence.
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Joseph Hall: (Virgidemiarum, V, 3, 1-4.)
The Satyre should be like the PORCUPINE,
That shoots sharpe quils out in each angry line,
And wounds the blushing CHEEKE, and fiery eye,
Of him that heares, and readeth guiltily.>>
July 16, 1557, the Renaissance scholar Sir John CHEEKE, tutor to
King Edward VI, praised Sir Thomas Hoby for his translation
of Castiglione's _The Book of the Courtier_.
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Eqyptians of the Pyramidic noticed that the beginning of
the NILE inundation occurred annually about July 16th
with the heliacal rising of Sirius.
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July 16, 622, Mohammed began his Hejira (flight from Mecca to Medina).
(The Muslim lunar calendar starts with Mohammed's journey
from Mecca to Medina on July 16, 622.
1001 SOLAR years later the First Folio was published.)
Two Arabian eclipses occurred on eve of RAMadan,
1001 A.H. & 1002 A.H., respectively:
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At about 1 PM on May 30, 1593 (Gregorian) London experienced a
partial eclipse of the sun while VENUS was in conjunction with SATURN.
The path of the total eclipse started in South America, passed over
the Sahara and ended in Arabia. Barely a year later (May 20, 1594
{Gregorian}) another total eclipse rose (Phoenix like) out
of Arabia (between Mecca to Medina) and passed over the
(former) empires of Tamerlane and Nebuchadnezzar.
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http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/0716.htm
July 16, 1212, Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem Spain
Simple Portuguese men from the villages fought
with the cavalry of the Templo.
July 16, 1429 Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans
July 16, 1439, English Parliament passed a law against kissing
as an anti-plague measure.
July 16, 1486, Italian painter Andrea del Sarto born. Browning's
dramatic monologue about him & his love for
his frivolous mistress made him famous.
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Andrea del Sarto made his reputation with a series of frescoes
on the life of John the Baptist.
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/bio/a/andrea/sarto/biograph.html
<<Born Andrea d'Agnolo in Florence, Italy, he painted the 'grisailles'
of Saint John the Baptist in the cloister of the Scalzo in Florence. In
1518 he was summoned to the court of Francis I of France, who entrusted
him with money to purchase works of art in Italy. He returned to
Florence in 1519 and remained there, using the money for his own
purposes. Andrea executed his last major work in fresco, the Last Supper
(1527) in the refectory of the convent of San Salvi near Florence. He
died on September 29, 1530.>>
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http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/0716.htm
July 16, 1548, La Paz, Bolivia is founded
July 16, 1661, The Bank of Stockholm issued Europe's first banknotes.
July 16, 1746, Giuseppe Piazzi discovered 1st asteroid (Ceres)
July 16, 1755, Future President John Adams graduated from Harvard.
July 16, 1779, General Mad Anthony Wayne capture Stony Point, New York.
July 16, 1782 Mozart's opera "Das Entf hrung aus dem Serail," performed
July 16, 1790, District of Columbia was established
as seat of the United States government.
July 16, 1821, Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science, born.
July 16, 1823, Lord Byron sailed on the Hercules from Italy
to join the revolutionary movement in Greece.
He will die there in about nine months.
July 16, 1861, Battle of Bull Run, the 1st battle of Civil War
July 16, 1872, Norwegian explorer Roald Admundsen was born.
He was the first to reach the South Pole by land
and navigated the Northwest Passage.
July 16, 1882, Mary Todd Lincoln died in Springfield, Illinois.
July 16, 1907, Popcorn king Orville Redenbacher born
July 16, 1918, Last Romanov tsar, Nicholas II, his wife, four daughters
& son, were executed by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg.
July 16, 1933, 1st parking meter went into operation in Oklahoma City.
July 16, 1945, First atom bomb (code-name Trinity) was exploded in the
desert near Almagordo, New Mexico, at 5:30 in the morning.
July 16, 1951, J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye published.
Holden Caulfield would be about 65 now.
He liked calling people "Old Sport" like Gatsby.
July 16, 1956, Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey circus held
its last show under the canvas tent.
July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy.
July 16, 1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet string hits Jupiter.
July 16, 1999, Private plane being piloted by John F. Kennedy, Jr.,
and carrying his wife & sister-in-law failed to land at
MARTHA's VINEYARD airport. The plane had crashed off GAY HEAD.
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GAY HEAD Light, MARTHA's VINEYARD, Massachusetts
http://www.lighthousegetaway.com/lights/cod5.html
<<Englishman BARTHOLOMEW GOSNOLD, the first European
to explore the area, called the headlands Dover Cliffs in 1602.>>
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http://www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/bh033.html
<<Paul Cuffee, an American seaman and merchant, encouraged
the colonizing of blacks in Sierra Leone, Africa, after sailing there in
1810. He financed the voyage of 38 free blacks in 1815. He also sought
to strengthen the legal position of blacks in the United States. His
efforts led to a law in 1783 that gave blacks in Massachusetts the
right to vote. Cuffe, part black part Indian, was born on CUTTYHUNK
Island, Massachusetts. He also preached among his fellow Quakers.>>
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http://www.everreader.com/eldredge.htm
<<Oxford invested in two voyages looking for the northwest passage, &
his son funded the GOSNOLD expedition that invented MARTHA's VINEYARD.
But GOSNOLD, who was a kissing cousin of Oxford and Southampton's
college roommate, died in Virginia in 1607 (his second trip).>>
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<<It is through the GOSNOLD connection that Edward Everett Hale
was able to identify PROSPERO's Island as CUTTYHUNK, one of
the Elizabeth Isles off the coast of Massachusetts, where
BARTHOLOMEW GOSNOLD built the 1st English house in America.>>
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1851 Moby Dick - Melville
Next was TASHTEGO, an unmixed Indian from GAY HEAD, the most westerly
promontory of MARTHA's VINEYARD, where there still exists the last
remnant of a village of red men, which has long supplied the neighboring
island of Nantucket with many of her most daring harpooneers. In the
fishery, they usually go by the generic name of Gay-Headers. TASHTEGO's
long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes-
for an Indian, Oriental in their largeness, but Antarctic in their
glittering expression- all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor
of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of
the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal
forests of the main. But no longer snuffing in the trail of the wild
beasts of the woodland, TASHTEGO now hunted in the wake of the great
whales of the sea; the unerring harpoon of the son fitly replacing the
infallible arrow of the sires. To look at the tawny brawn of his lithe
snaky limbs, you would almost have credited the superstitions of some of
the earlier Puritans and half-believed this wild Indian to be a son of
the Prince of the Powers of the Air.
TASHTEGO was STUBB the second mate's squire.>>
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July 16, 1557, Anne of CLEEVES, 4th wife of Henry VIII, dies at 41
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http://www.cd.sc.ehu.es/FileRoom/documents/Cases/155stubbs.html
http://mitglied.tripod.de/gruselberg/spdb/Judge/acttan.htm
<<In 1579 a middle-aged lawyer called John STUBBS (c.1543-1591) was
sentenced to public mutilation at Westminster for having written a "lewd
and seditious" pamphlet against Queen Elizabeth's proposed marriage to
the French king's brother ("The Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf Where into
England is Likely to be Swallowed by another French Marriage,"). Copies
of the book were burned in the kitchen stove of Stationer's Hall. It
took the executioner three blows to CLEAVE his right hand by means of a
CLEAVER driven through the wrist by a mallet; before STUBBS fainted
he "put off his hat with his left and said with a loud voice, 'God save
the Queen'". Camden, who witnessed this appalling scene, records that.
"The multitude standing about was altogether silent, either out of horror of
this new and unwonted punishment, or else out of pity towards the man".
(STUBBS regained Elizabeth's favour in later years, and had a career
in parliament.)>>
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Art Neuendorffer