Happy Birthday, Queen Elizabeth
Greg Reynolds
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Queen Elizabeth I
The Unwanted Princess
Elizabeth I was born on September 7, 1533 at Greenwich Palace near
London. Her father was England's King Henry VIII; her mother was the
king's second wife, Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth had an older half-sister,
Mary, who was the daughter of the king's first wife, Catherine of
Aragon.
King Henry had moved heaven and earth to marry Anne Boleyn. He had
parted from the Catholic church, established the Church of England,
and annulled his 24-year marriage to Queen Catherine -- partly because
he loved Anne, and partly because he wanted the male heir Catherine
could not give him. Henry and Anne were convinced that their first
child would be a boy. The new queen even had a document drawn up ahead
of time that announced the birth of a prince. When the prince turned
out to be a princess, her parents were dismayed.
Over the next few years Anne had three miscarriages, and Henry -- who
had become disenchanted with her even before Elizabeth's birth --
decided to be rid of her. In 1536 he had Anne arrested on false
charges of adultery. The Archbishop of Canterbury bowed to the king's
will by declaring that Henry's marriage to Anne had never been valid.
Like her half-sister Mary, two-year-old Elizabeth was now considered
illegitimate. Anne was executed, and two weeks later the king married
Jane Seymour.
In 1537 Queen Jane died after giving birth to a son, Edward. Elizabeth
and Mary participated in his christening ceremony. As Edward grew
older, he and Elizabeth became close; although they lived in separate
households, they wrote to each other often.
When Elizabeth was four, Katherine Champernowne became her governess.
The well-educated Champernowne -- known as Kat Ashley after her
marriage in 1545 -- began teaching Elizabeth astronomy, geography,
history, math, French, Flemish, Italian, Spanish, and other subjects.
Elizabeth was an excellent student. Her tutor Roger Ascham later
wrote, "She talks French and Italian as well as she does English. When
she writes Greek and Latin, nothing is more beautiful than her
handwriting."
In 1540 Elizabeth's father married Anne of Cleves. Repelled by what he
perceived as his bride's ugliness, Henry quickly had the marriage
annulled and instead married Anne Boleyn's first cousin Katherine
Howard. Katherine was very young -- about 15 -- and something of a
featherbrain, but she was kind to Elizabeth, who was surely appalled
when, in a repetition of the past, the queen was arrested and charged
with adultery. This time the charges were true. Queen Katherine was
beheaded in 1542, when Elizabeth was seven years old.
Katherine Howard's violent death seems to have had a lasting impact on
Elizabeth. At the age of eight she met one of Prince Edward's
classmates, Robert Dudley, and told him of an important decision she
had made. "I will never marry," she said. It was a decision that would
shape her life.
Thomas Seymour
In 1543 Elizabeth gained yet another stepmother when Henry married his
sixth and final wife, Katherine Parr. Four years later Henry VIII
died, leaving his crown to Edward. According to Henry's will, if
Edward died without heirs he would be succeeded by Mary. If Mary died
without heirs, Elizabeth would become queen.
Soon after Henry's death, Elizabeth received a marriage proposal from
handsome Thomas Seymour, who was England's Lord Admiral and the
brother of the late Queen Jane. Knowing that Seymour was simply
seeking the power that marriage to the king's sister could bring him,
Elizabeth turned him down. So Seymour proposed to the widowed Queen
Katherine, who had been in love with him before her marriage to Henry
VIII. Unaware of Seymour's previous proposal to her stepdaughter,
Katherine happily accepted. They were quickly married, and the
following year Elizabeth went to live with them at the royal Old Manor
House in Chelsea.
Thomas Seymour still had designs on pretty red-haired Elizabeth. He
took to visiting her bedroom in the morning before she was dressed.
During these visits he sometimes tickled her or slapped her bottom;
once he tried to kiss her. Elizabeth giggled and seemed to enjoy his
attention, but Kat Ashley was disturbed by the Lord Admiral's
behavior, and the servants began to gossip. Queen Katherine was aware
of what was going on, but saw it all as innocent romping. Once she
even joined in the "joke," holding Elizabeth in the garden while her
husband cut off Elizabeth's dress.
Hoping to further deceive his wife, Seymour told her that he had seen
Elizabeth with her arms around a man's neck. Concerned, the queen
questioned Elizabeth, who cried and insisted it wasn't true. Now
Katherine began to suspect that her husband, not some mystery man, had
been making advances to her stepdaughter. She started watching the
Lord Admiral more carefully. One day Katherine went looking for him
and Elizabeth and, according to one account, "came suddenly upon them,
where they were all alone, he having her in his arms." Understandably
upset, Katherine banished Elizabeth from the Old Manor House.
A few months later Katherine died after childbirth and Seymour resumed
plotting to marry Elizabeth. Elizabeth knew that she could not legally
marry without the permission of the king's council, and she refused to
be drawn into the Lord Admiral's schemes. In 1549 Seymour was arrested
on charges of conspiring to marry Elizabeth and take over the
government. Kat Ashley was also arrested, along with another of
Elizabeth's employees, and Elizabeth herself was closely interrogated.
She kept her wits about her and denied any involvement in Seymour's
treasonous activities. In the end she convinced the Council of her
innocence, and her servants were released from prison.
When Elizabeth heard that Seymour had been beheaded for his crimes she
supposedly said only, "This day died a man of much wit and very little
judgement." She had learned that she must keep her feelings to herself
if she hoped to survive.
Perilous Years
Elizabeth continued to get along well with her brother, King Edward,
but in 1553 Edward died. On his deathbed he was persuaded by the duke
of Northumberland to name Lady Jane Grey to succeed him. Lady Jane
tried to refuse the crown, but Northumberland (who was her father-in-
law) proclaimed her to be the new queen. Meanwhile, Henry VIII's
daughter Mary was proclaimed queen by her supporters. Northumberland
surrendered to Mary's forces. He and Jane Grey were imprisoned and
later executed.
Queen Mary was determined to restore Catholicism as the country's
official religion. She pressured Elizabeth to convert. Elizabeth
obediently attended one mass, but complained the whole time of feeling
ill. Because this and Elizabeth's popularity with the English people,
Mary grew wary of her half-sister.
When Sir Thomas Wyatt led an uprising against Mary, the queen
suspected that Elizabeth was involved. Elizabeth was taken to London
and confined at Whitehall Palace. Eventually, although no evidence
against her could be found, she was sent to the Tower, where Anne
Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Jane Grey and so many others had awaited
execution. When Elizabeth saw that she was being brought into the
Tower via the Traitor's Gate, she panicked and begged to be brought
through some other gate.
Told that she must enter this way, she cried, "Oh Lord, I never
throught to come in here as a prisoner . . . I come in as no traitor
but as true a woman to the Queen's Majesty as any as is now living;
and thereon will I take my death." She sat down on the stairs and
refused to move. When told that it wasn't healthy to sit in the rain,
she replied tearfully, "It is better sitting here than in a worse
place!"
One of her servants started to sob and Elizabeth told him angrily that
he shouldn't cry, saying, "I thank God that I know my truth to be such
that no man can have cause to weep for me!" With that she continued
into the Tower.
Despite her very reasonable fears, she was released from the Tower two
months later, on the 18th anniversary of her mother's death. She
remained a prisoner, however. In 1555 she was moved under heavy guard
to Hampton Court, where the queen was staying. Mary refused to see
her, but Mary's new husband Philip of Spain met with Elizabeth and
fell under her spell. At his encouragement Mary finally reconciled
with Elizabeth.
The following years were fraught with peril for Elizabeth. Over 250
Protestants were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody
Mary," and Elizabeth's failure to truly convert to the Catholic faith
put her in constant danger, as did other people's conspiracies to
overthrow Mary and place Elizabeth on the throne.
Finally, on November 17, 1558, Mary died and Elizabeth's years of
peril came to an end. She was now the queen of England.
Gloriana
Elizabeth's advisers urged the 25-year-old queen to quickly marry some
foreign prince and produce heirs so that the throne would not pass to
Henry VIII's great-niece, Mary Stuart, the queen of Scotland. But
Elizabeth stood by her early decision never to marry. (One of the many
proposals she rejected was from her sister Mary's widower, Philip of
Spain.)
Elizabeth had a romantic nature, and may already have been in love her
childhood friend Robert Dudley, whom she later made the Earl of
Leicester. Although Elizabeth was a hard-working monarch, like her
father she had a great appetite for entertainment. She enjoyed
archery, dancing, hunting, riding, and tennis. Whatever she did,
Leicester was usually nearby. He was given a bedroom near hers, and
rumors about the nature of their relationship were rampant.
Leicester had a wife named Amy. In 1559, while Leicester was at court,
Amy fell down the staircase of her country home, broke her neck, and
died. She had been alone in the house at the time of her accident, and
it was whispered that she had been murdered so that Elizabeth and
Leicester could marry. But Elizabeth did not marry Leicester. Twenty
years later he infuriated the queen by secretly marrying her cousin
Lettice Knollys, but Elizabeth forgave him, and he remained her
favorite until his death.
Elizabeth made conservative Sir William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, her
chief minister and relied on his advice for 40 years. Early in her
reign she reformed English currency, encouraged foreign trade, and
signed treaties with France and Scotland. She used her single state to
her diplomatic advantage, often pretending to consider marriage to one
foreign royal or another.
Although she returned the Church of England to power, she showed
tolerance toward Catholics at first. Despite Catholic conspiracies to
overthrow her and place Mary Stuart on the English throne, Elizabeth
hesitated to execute her fellow queen. Mary became Elizabeth's
prisoner in 1568, but it was not until 1587 that Elizabeth, confronted
with evidence of Mary's participation in the Babington Plot to
assassinate Elizabeth, signed Mary's death warrant. By this time
Elizabeth had become more brutal in suppressing Catholics, although
she continued to believe, in her words, "There is only one Christ
Jesus and one faith; the rest is a dispute about trifles."
In 1588 Spain's King Philip II, Elizabeth's brother-in-law and one-
time suitor, assembled a great fleet of ships, the Armada, and tried
to invade England. The ensuing battle between the Spanish and English
fleets lasted nine days. At last the English routed their enemy, and
most of the fleeing Spanish ships were destroyed by a storm. The
defeat of the Armada was one of the greatest triumphs of Elizabeth's
reign.
Elizabeth was glorified by poets and artists as Gloriana, the Virgin
Queen. With the help of fine clothes, jewels, and cosmetics, the vain
queen maintained a glamorous image despite her advancing age. In her
mid-50s she fell in love with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, son of
Lettice Knollys. Essex was in his early 20s, good-looking, and
extremely arrogant. Although he reigned as the queen's favorite for
many years, he did not always show Elizabeth the deference she
demanded. Once, when Elizabeth slapped him during an argument, Essex
threatened to draw his sword on her. Elizabeth sent him to Ireland to
quell a rebellion; while there, Essex ignored the queen's orders and
pursued his own agenda. When he defied her by returning to England
without permission, Elizabeth placed him under house arrest. After his
release Essex attempted to lead an uprising against the queen, and the
heartbroken Elizabeth had no choice but to sentence him to death.
Essex was executed in 1601.
Two years later Elizabeth became very ill. Perhaps she did not want to
live without Essex; when her doctors offered her medicine, she refused
to take it. She died on March 24, 1603 at the age of 69. She was the
last of the Tudor monarchs; her successor was Mary Queen of Scots'
son, James.
Elizabeth once told Parliament, "Though God has raised me high, yet
this I account the glory of my crown, that I have reigned with your
loves." She is regarded by many as the greatest monarch in English
history.
(from http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/England/Tudor/ElizabethI.html)
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Here's how we can celebrate the Queen's birthday! Elizabeth would turn
474 if she were alive today, so I am buying a commemorative pick-3
lottery ticket with the number 474. If it wins, I will send $1 to
anyone I recognize on this newsgroup who requests it! Be a part of
history!
Greg Reynolds
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a few other bio links...
http://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/eliz1.html
http://www.elizabethi.org/us/biography.html
Art Neuendorffer
September 7 is the 250th day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (251st in leap years), with 115 days remaining.
http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/sep7.html
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Feast day of St Regina (Regina; Regnia; Reine), VIRGIN & martyr
The story of her sufferings in martyrdom (she was tortured, crucified
and decapitated when she rejected the amorous attentions of Olybrius,
the prefect of Burgundy) are a Burgundian adaptation of the legend
of Saint Marina or Margaret of Antioch. There is a sacred spring near
Flavigni Abbey, to which her relics were translated in 864, which
has powers to heal ringworm, mange, scurvy, and other illnesses,
with a hospital nearby dedicated to St Regina founded by St Vincent
de Paul. Saint Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, was named for her.
.
Feast day of St Cloud (Clodoald; Clodulphus) of Nogent, confessor
Born in 524, St Cloud was a son of the Frankish king Chlodomer and
the
grandson of King Clovis and St Clotilde. In art, St Cloud is
portrayed
as a Benedictine abbot giving his hood to a poor man as a ray of
light
emanates from his head. He may also be shown with royal insignia at
his feet or instructing the poor. He is invoked against carbuncles.
.
Egyptian day (dies egypticus , dies ægypticus or dies mala),
. unlucky day in Medieval Europe. ("But, notwithstanding
. I will trust the Lord" was the associated saying.)
.
Festa Della Rificolona, Florence, Italy (Sep 6 - 7)
Feast day of Ss Alcmund and Tilberht (Tilbert), Bishops of Hexham
Feast day of St Anastasius the Fuller
Feast day of St Augustalus the Less Full
Feast day of St Carissima
Feast day of St Dinooth
Feast day of St Diuma
Feast day of St Eugenia Picco
Feast day of St Eunan, first Bishop of Raphoe, in Ireland
Feast day of St Eupsychius of Caesarea
Feast day of St Eustace of Flay
Feast day of St Evurtius (Evortius; Enurchus; Evertius),
. Bishop of Orleans, he lived during the reign
. of Constantine the Great, and died about 340.
Feast day of St Gratus of Aosta
Feast day of St Grimonia (Germana), virgin and martyr
Feast day of St Hiduard
Feast day of St John Duckett
Feast day of St John Maid
Feast day of St John Maki
Feast day of St John of Lodi
Feast day of St John of Nicomedia
Feast day of St Louis Maki
Feast day of St Madelberte (Madalberta), virgin
Feast day of St Marek Krizin
Feast day of St Memorius
Feast day of St Pamphilus
Feast day of St Ralph Corby
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. born on September 7
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1533 Queen Elizabeth I of England
. (d. March 24, 1603; reigned November 17, 1558 - March 24, 1603)
.
1701 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, naturalist (d. 1788)
.
1815 John McDouall Stuart (d. June 5, 1866), the most accomplished
and famous of all Australia's inland explorers, who led the first
expedition to successfully traverse the continent from south to north.
.
1829 Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, organic chemist (d. 1896)
Kekulé said that he had discovered the ring shape of the benzene
molecule after having a reverie or day-dream of a snake seizing
its own tail (this is a common symbol in many ancient cultures
known as the Ouroboros).
.
1860 Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses; d. December 13, 1961),
American naive artist who began professional painting at the age of
78 and was nearly 100 when she found fame. She began painting
after abandoning a career in embroidery because of arthritis.
.
1866 Tristan Bernard, writer (d. 1947)
.
1867 J Pierpont Morgan Jr (d. 1943), American financier
.
1885 Elinor Wylie, writer
.
1900 Taylor Caldwell, author (d. 1985)
.
1908 Dr Michael DeBakey, heart surgeon and inventor of the MASH
.
1909 Elia Kazan (d. 2003), Turkish-born stage and film director.
His selection for an honorary Oscar angered many in the
filmmaking community as he had cooperated with
the House Unamerican Activities Committee in 1952.
.
1912 David Packard, automotive engineer
.
1913 Sir Anthony Quayle (d. 1989), English actor directed at
. the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre from 1948 to 1956 , and laid
the foundations for the creation of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
.
1923 Peter Lawford (Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen; d. December 24, 1984),
English-born actor, member of the so-called Rat Pack, comprising
Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr and Joey Bishop
who appeared together in Ocean's Eleven.
In 1972, Lawford had surgery to remove a pancreatic tumour.
Peter Lawford died a pariah in Hollwood, to whom restaurants refused
to deliver food as he was a bad bill-payer. He died penniless,
without even enough money for a cemetery plot.
.
1930 King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)
.
1936 Buddy Holly (d. 1959), American rock and roll singer-songwriter
.
1951 Julie Kavner, voice actress (The Simpsons)
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. September 7 events
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1191 Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England
. (Richard the Lionheart) defeated Saladin at Arsuf.
.
1539 Guru Angad Dev ji became the second Guru of the Sikhs.
.
1552 Death of Guru Angad Dev, Second Guru of the Sikhs.
.
1548 Death of Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII of England.
.
1559 Death of Robert Estienne, early printer of the Bible.
.
1571 The Turkish Ottoman fleet was defeated by
. the combined Christian navies at Lepanto off the coast of Greece.
.
1701 Fearing a likely alliance of France and Spain, the governments
. of England, Austria and the Netherlands formed an alliance
. against France in the Treaty of the Hague.
.
1776 World's first submarine attack. American submersible craft
. Turtle attempted to attach a time bomb to the hull of British
. Admiral Richard Howe's flagship Eagle in New York Harbor.
.
1795 The Australian Aboriginal man, Bennelong (or Benelong), returned
to
Sydney from England. Although Bennelong appears to have had an
ambivalent relationship with both the settlement and Governor Arthur
Phillip, Bennelong and another Aborigine named Yemmerrawanie
travelled
with Phillip to England in 1792, and were presented to King George
III
on May 24, 1793. Sadly, Yemmerrawanie died whilst in Britain, but
Bennelong returned to Sydney. Increasingly overwhelmed by European
culture, Bennelong quickly became alienated from his own people after
this return. Bennelong Point, on which the Sydney Opera House now
stands, was named for him.
.
1812 Battle of Borodino - Napoleon defeated the
. Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.
.
1818 Carl III of Sweden-Norway was crowned king of Norway, in
Trondheim.
.
1822 Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.
.
1830 Tragedy of the commons: "Large bodies of men in disguise"
tore down the fences, hedgerows and buildings erected by Lord
Abingdon on Otmoor, England. Before Lord Abingdon had drained and
enclosed the land, removing it from the common use of the people, the
small holders and cottagers had been able to make 20 shillings a year
out of keeping geese on the aquatic grass of the moor, and the bird
hunting and fishing had provided valuable food. Now enclosure
deprived
them of these sources of income, so 29 farmers who had suffered
considerable loss united to cut new dykes to allow the river to
return to its ancient course. Though the Oxfordshire Yeomanry
arrested more than 40, they were all freed the same day while
in transit to Oxford gaol when the crowd at St Giles Fair
took time off from their revels to riot and release them.
.
1838 Grace Darling's daring deed
Grace Darling, (b. 1815), was a lighthouse-keeper's daughter
on Longstone Island, off the coast of England. On September 7, 1838,
a stormy day, the Forfarshire, a 300-ton steamer, was on her way from
Hull to Dundee when she smashed into the rocks at about 4am. The seas
were so great that the local boatman, and lighthouse keeper Darling,
refused to take vessels out to the wreck. Grace, aged 22, coaxed her
father into going with her to row the mile to rescue the survivors,
of
whom they saved nine, including a mother who they found nursing the
corpses of two infants. Grace Darling, because of her bravery and no
doubt because of her attractive name, became instantly famous in
Britain, and may be described as the first media heroine. More than
700 pounds was raised for her by public subscription. She received
many offers of marriage, but was content to remain with her parents
at the lighthouse, where she died of TB at the early age of 27.
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1848 The Vienna assembly abolished serfdom.
.
1864 American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia was evacuated
. on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
.
1866 The first successful Atlantic cable was completed.
.
1871 "In 1871 Nathan Coker, a blacksmith from Easton, Maryland,
demonstrated his fire immunity before many prominent local officials.
Unlike some other famous fire handlers, Coker needed no trance or
preparation. A shovel was heated to a white-glow, and Coker 'pulled
off
his boots and placed the hot shovel on the soles of his feet, and
kept
it there until the shovel became black.' (New York Herald 7 Sept
1871).
.
1876 In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-
. Younger Gang attempted to rob the town's bank but
. were surrounded by an angry mob and nearly wiped out.
.
1888 Jesse James's last holdup.
.
1892 Death of John Greenleaf Whittier, poet.
.
1901 The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ended
. with the signing of the Peking Protocol.
.
1910 Marie Curie announced that she has isolated pure radium.
.
1911 French poet Guillaume Apollinaire was arrested and imprisoned
. on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
.
1921 First Miss America Pageant was held.
.
1940 World War II: The Blitz - Nazi Germany began to rain bombs
. on London but lost nearly 100 planes in so doing.
. This was the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
.
1940 Romania returned southern Dobruja to Bulgaria.
.
1950 Gameshow Truth or Consequences debuted on American television.
.
1953 Nikita Khrushchev became head of the Soviet Central Committee.
.
1958 First meeting of the New York Daughters of Bilitis.
..
1966 USA: The final new episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show aired.
.
1971 USA: The last new episode of The Beverly Hillbillies aired
.
1977 Canal Treaties between Panama and the United States signed.
.
1986 Bishop Desmond Tutu was enthroned as Archbishop of Cape Town.
.
1988 Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returned aboard
the
Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after nine days on the Mir space station.
.
1990 Oxford, England: Two Ploughshares activists
. jailed 15 months for disabling an F-111 bomber.
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September 7 : Feastday of St. REGINA
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September 7, 1533 Elizabeth REGINA, England born.
September 7, 1596 Poet James Sherley baptized.
.
Sept. 7, 1598 (Thurs.) MERES' *Palladis Tamia*, registered
. (Eliz. I's 65th birthday)
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Sept. 7, 1783 (Thurs.) EULER BALLON pops (Eliz. I's 250th birthday)
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BALLOON , n. [F. BALLON, aug. of balle ball: G. BALLON ,cf. It.
BALLONe.] 1. A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled
with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the
atmosphere. 2. (Arch.) A BALL or globe on the top of a PILLAR,
church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. [R.]
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<<On September 7 1783 EULER spent the first half of the day as usual.
He gave a mathematics lesson to one of his GRANDCHILDREN, did some
calculations with chalk on two boards on the motion of BALLOONS; then
discussed with Lexell & Fuss the recently discovered planet URANUS.
.
About five o'clock in the afternoon he suffered a brain haemorrhage
. and uttered only "I am dying" before he lost consciousness.
. EULER died about ELEVEN o'clock in the evening.>>
.
______ {anagram}
______ *ELEANOR BULL*
______ *NOBLE LAUREL*
______ *EULER BALLON*
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<<The High Window is perhaps Marlowe's most baffling case...and
the reader is left to his own conclusions. Asked to retrieve a
stolen coin [e.g., a counterfeit Dutch shilling], Marlowe tough
guy exterior turns to compassion when he meets up with an old
lady [e.g., Dame ELEANOR BULL] and her frightened young
secretary [e.g., Blanche Parry] - who share a deadly secret.>>
-- http://www.lanocturne.com/books/chandler.shtml
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. http://burlwrite.com/facts.htm
.
Marlowe fans may not know that Raymond Chandler, creator
of the famous sleuth, never lived for more than one year
at any location in Los Angeles. Neighborhoods in
Los Angeles in which the author lived include
.
Silver Lake (mentioned in Tailing Philip Marlowe),
*LAUREL* Canyon (Marlowe's residence in The Long Goodbye)
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. SIR RALPH SADLER
.
Born: ABT 1507, Hackney, Middlesex, England
Died: 30 Mar 1587, Standon, Hertfordshire, England
.
Children:
.
[H] enry SADLER (b. 1539 - d. 17 Mar 1618)
[A] nne SADLER
[M] ary SADLER
[N] IL
[E] dward SADLER (b. 1537 - d. 4 Apr 1584)
[T] homas SADLER (b. 1534 - d. 5 Jan 1606)
.
DOROTHY SADLER
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. [ February 6: Feastday of St. DOROTHY]
.
. Marlowe's sister was DOROTHY.
. Robert GREENE wife was named DOLL/DOROTHY
.
February 6, 1564 Christopher Marlowe born
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February 6, 1594 Titus Andronicus registered
________ + 243 year Venus Cycle
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February 6, 1837 Alexander Pushkin buried
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<<During the 48 hours preceding his duel, Pushkin visited
. the Hermitage gallery, SANG NURSERY RHYMES to the
. GRANDDAUGHTER of the poet Krylov, saw D'Anthès
. and his own sister-in-law across the room at a soirée,
. struck friends as 'merry & full of life' and went to Countess
. Razumovskaya's GLITTERING BALL. The gun shots were
. exchanged in a snow-bound field near the frozen NEVA.>>
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September 8 => Feastday of St. ADRIAN (patron of butchers)
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September 8, 1560, Amy Robsart BREAKS neck at bottom of staircase
. [All her servants away at ABINGTON Fair]
. Richard SMYTHE (Mayor of ABINGTON) jury FOREMAN
.
September 8, 1573, Caravaggio born
September 8, 1601, Shakespeare's father, John, buried
September 8, 1608, Shakespeare's mother, Mary, dies
September 8, 1611, FORMAN SIMon: "An IMPOST, an IMPOST"
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Art Neuendorffer
Greg Reynolds
wrote:
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> September 7 is the 250th day of the year in the Gregorian
> Calendar (251st in leap years), with 115 days remaining.
> Feast day of St Regina (Regina; Regnia; Reine), VIRGIN & martyr
> The story of her sufferings in martyrdom (she was tortured, crucified
> and decapitated when she rejected the amorous attentions of Olybrius,
> the prefect of Burgundy)
Butch: Well, the way I figure it, we can either fight or give. If we
give, we go to jail.
Sundance: I been there already.
Butch: But if we fight, they can stay right where they are and starve
us out or go for position - shoot us; might even get a rockslide
started and get us that way. What else could they do?
Sundance: They could surrender to us, but I wouldn't count on that.
(He watches the posse maneuver) They're goin' for position, all right.
Better get ready. (He loads his gun)
Butch: Kid - the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,'
let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Sundance: Next time. Ready?
Butch: (looking into the deep canyon and the river far below) No,
we'll jump.
Sundance (after looking down): Like hell we will.
Butch: No, it'll be OK - if the water's deep enough, we don't get
squished to death. They'll never follow us.
Sundance: How do you know?
Butch: Would you make a jump like that you didn't have to?
Sundance: I have to and I'm not gonna.
Butch: Well, we got to, otherwise we're dead. They're just gonna have
to go back down the same way they come. Come on.
Sundance: Just one clear shot, that's all I want.
Butch: Come on.
Sundance: Uh-uh.
Butch: We got to.
Sundance: Nope! Get away from me!
Butch: Why?
Sundance: I wanna fight 'em!
Butch: They'll kill us!
Sundance: Maybe.
Butch: You wanna die?!
Sundance: (waving his pistol at the river far below) Do you?!
Butch: All right. I'll jump first.
Sundance: Nope.
Butch: Then you jump first.
Sundance: No, I said!
Butch: What's the matter with you?!
Sundance: I can't swim!
Butch: Why, you crazy - the fall'll probably kill ya!
Ms. Mouse
That's just about my favourite dialogue in any movie ever.
Mouse
Art Neuendorffer
ago when you had the chance. It's over, don't you get that? Your time
is over and you're gonna die bloody, and all you can do is choose
where.
Greg Reynolds
wrote:
Don't give away the ending.
Greg Reynolds
Greg Reynolds wrote:
> Happy Birthday, Good Queen Bess! Gloriana!
> + + +
> + + +
> Here's how we can celebrate the Queen's birthday! Elizabeth would turn
> 474 if she were alive today, so I am buying a commemorative pick-3
> lottery ticket with the number 474. If it wins, I will send $1 to
> anyone I recognize on this newsgroup who requests it! Be a part of
> history!
>
> Greg Reynolds
> + + +
It was close!
472.
Art Neuendorffer
> >
> > Happy Birthday, Good Queen Bess! Gloriana!
> > + + +
> > + + +
> > Here's how we can celebrate the Queen's birthday! Elizabeth would turn
> > 474 if she were alive today, so I am buying a commemorative pick-3
> > lottery ticket with the number 474. If it wins, I will send $1 to
> > anyone I recognize on this newsgroup who requests it! Be a part of
> > history!
>
> > Greg Reynolds
> > + + +
>
> It was close!
> 472.
>
> http://www.illinoislottery.com/numbers.asp
Wouldn't she have been in her 475th year in any event.
475 = 19 x 5 x 5.
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*FIVE* occurs 2^7 times in Shakespeare
.
plus:
.
five-fathom (1)
five-finger-tied (1)
five-fold (1)
five-score (2)
fives (1)
five-and-twenty (4)
five-and-thirty (1)
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. Chapter 43 THE JOURNEY ENDED
Journey to the Center of the Earth - by Jules *VERnE*
.
. After a delay of 48 hours, *on the 31th of September* a little
. vessel took us to Messina, where a few days of delightful
. and complete repose restored us to ourselves.
.
We need scarcely mention that her uncle was the illustrious Professor
Hardwigg, corresponding member of all the scientific, geographical,
mineralogical and geological societies of *FIVE QUARTERS OF THE EARTH*
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Inutile d'ajouter que son oncle fut l'illustre professeur Otto
Lidenbrock, membre correspondant de toutes les sociétés scientifiques,
géographiques et minéralogiques des *CINQ PARTIES DU MONDE* ! - FIN
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The Freemasons by Jeremy Harwood p. 87:
.
<<According to Albert G. Mackey Freemasons considered the Pentagram to
be a symbol of deep wisdom. Its first English mention comes in the
legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, where Gawain is described
as carrying a shield with "shining gules, with the Pentangle in pure
gold depicted thereon". This represented the five wounds of Christ and
the five virtues of generosity, fellowship, purity, courtesy and
mercy.>>
.
. "And why the pentangle is proper to that peerless prince
. I intend now to tell.....
. It is a sign by Solomon sagely devised
. To be a token of truth,....
. For it is a figure formed of five points,
. And each linked and locked with the next
. For ever and ever, and hence it is called
. In all England,..., the endless knot...
. For ever faithful five-fold in five-fold fashion
. Was Gawain in good works, as gold unalloyed,
. Devoid of all villainy, with virtues adorned in sight...."
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_The *FIVE* Great *iSTARi* ( *WIZARDS* ) of Middle Earth_ - Buckner
.
<<I was sorting through some of Tolkien's letters last night and
found the names of the *FIVE iSTARi* or *WIZARDS* of Middle-earth.
There was a white, two blue, a brown, and a grey wizard, whom
supposedly "arrived" in Middle-earth in that order. Only three are
mentioned in The Lord of the Rings: The white, the brown, and the
grey. Two of their names you can guess, but here are all of their
names in order of their appearance in Middle-earth:
.
. [P]allando the Blue,
. [S]aruman the White,
. [A]latar the Blue, and
. [R]adagast the Brown,
. [G]andalf the Grey, who came last.
.
Gandalf the Grey came last. Tolkien says he is more 'aged'
.than the other four and leaned on a wooden *STAFF* .>>
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*GRASP* a palmer's *STAFF*
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. King Henry VI, Part ii Act 5, Scene 1
.
YORK: That head of thine doth not become a CROWN;
. Thy hand is made to *GRASP* a palmer's *STAFF* ,
. And not to grace an awful princely sceptre.
. That gold must round engirt these brows of mine,
. Whose smile and frown, like to *ACHILLES' SPEAR*
. Is able with the change to kill and cure.
. *HERE* is a hand to hold a sceptre up
. And with the same to act CONTROWLING laws.
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_________ *FIVE WIZARD*
___________ {atbash code}
_________ *UREV DRAZIW*
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____ *VERU* : SPEAR (Latin)
____ *VERU* : TRUE (Maltese)
____ *VERU* : TROTH, TRULY (Slovak)
____ *VERU* : a DOOR, a GATE (Oscan)
.
[Oscan: An extinct Italic language of ancient southern Italy.]
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_The *FIVE* Great *iSTARi* ( *WIZARDS* ) of Middle Earth_ - Buckner
<<Saruman, Alatar, and Pallando traveled to the east, possibly to
Mordor to scout the power of Sauron. Saruman was the only one who made
it back to the east and settled at Isengard in the Tower of Orthanc.
Tolkien doesn't say exactly what happens to Alatar and Pallando, the
two blue wizards. He said they possibly fell to the dark powers and
became servants of Sauron, they could have been killed by Sauron,
or that their task was simply to remain in the east. Saruman was
established as the "chief" wizard. Radagast the Brown, who came
fourth, abandoned his task. He disliked Elves, Humans, and Dwarves.
Radagast loved animals though, and he stayed with them and didn't
associate with 'higher-beings.' Saruman calls him "Radagast the
Simple," "Radagast the Bird-Tamer," and "Radagast the Foolish."
All of the *FIVE iSTARi* purpose was to 'kindle' the
hearts of Men and Elves to rival Sauron, but the wizards were not to
fight against Sauron directly. The wizards were sent from Valinor,
the 'undying' lands where elves go when they said into the
west. They were basically sent by the 'gods.' The Istari (wizards)
themselves were Maiar. Sauron was also a Maiar. I interpret them
as 'angels'; at least that's how we would look at it.
.
. Gandalf the Grey came last. Tolkien says he is more 'aged'
. than the other four and leaned on a wooden *STAFF*.
.
When Gandalf arrives at the Grey Havens on the west shores of
Middle-earth, he was met by the master of the Grey Havens who was an
elf named Cirdan. Cirdan was the keeper of the Ring of Fire, or the
Red Ring, which was one of the three elvish rings of power called
"Naryu." Its power was to kindle the hearts of the people's of
Middle-earth. Though, all three of the elvish ring's main purpose was
to slow the decay of time. Cirdan gave the Ring of Fire to Gandalf to
help him in his 'labors.' Gandalf traveled all over Middle-earth; he
befriended elves, dwarves, men, and discovered the Halflings
(hobbits). Saruman discovered that Gandalf had the Red Ring and began
to envy and resent him. When Sauron started building up power again,
Elrond the Half-elf and Galadriel, the Lady of Lothlorien, created the
White Council. Saruman was placed as its head, though Elrond and
Galadriel would have preferred Gandalf. Saruman advised the council to
wait and watch, because he also sought for the One Ring, the Ring of
Power. By this time, Saruman was already being controlled by Sauron.
In the Tower of Orthanc was one of the seven seeing stones of Arnor,
called the Palantir. The Palantir could "see" into far away lands.
Saruman reached into Mordor and was captured by Sauron, who has the
supreme Palantir that was taken from Minas Ithil. So, Sauron could see
everything Saruman saw, and he knew everything Saruman knew, although
Saruman wasn't loyal to neither the White Council nor Sauron because
he desired the Ring of Power himself. Saurman's treachery wasn't
revealed until he captured Gandalf at Isengard. All of the Istart
(wizards) failed, except Gandalf. That's why he was sent back to
Middle-earth as Gandalf the White, after he slayed the Balrog of
Morgoth. Gandalf finally overthrows Saruman, strips him of his color,
and *breaks his STAFF* . In the end, Gandalf sails back to Valinor
with the other elvish ring-bearers, who were Elrond and Galadriel,
Frodo, and his uncle Bilbo.>>
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SIR HUGH EVANS: He is a good *SPRAG* MEMORY.
...........................................
. [S]aruman the White,
. [P]allando the Blue,
. [R]adagast the Brown,
. [A]latar the Blue, and
. [G]andalf the Grey, who came last.
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Stephen DEDALUS' theory about Shakespeare:
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He is, Stephen said. The boy of act one is
the mature man of act *FIVE* . All in all.
In Cymbeline, in Othello he is bawd and *CUCKOLD*
He acts and is acted on.
LoVER of an ideal or a perVERsion, like Jose
he kills the real Carmen. His unremitting
intellect is the hornmad Iago ceaselessly
WILLing that the moor in him shall suffer.
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. CHAPTER IX. OUR VOYAGE TO *ICE-LAND*
Journey to the Center of the Earth - by Jules *VERnE*
.
On the second of the month [ *St. ELMO's Day* ],
at two in the morning, our precious cargo of luggage
was taken on board the good ship *VALKYRIE* .
We followed, and were *VERy* politely introduced
by the captain to a small cabin with two standing
bed places, neither *VERy* well ventilated
nor *VERy* comfortable. But in the cause
of science men are expected to *SUFFER* .
.
"Well, and have we a fair wind?" cried my uncle,
. in his *most mellifluous accents* .
.
"An excellent wind!" replied Captain Bjarne; "we shall
*LEAVE* the Sound, going *FREE* with all sails set."
.
A few minutes afterwards, the schooner started before the wind,
under all the canvas she could carry, and entered the channel.
An hour later, the capital of Denmark seemed to sink into the
waves, and we were at no great distance from the coast of
*Elsinore* . My uncle was delighted; for myself, moody
and dissatisfied, I appeared almost to expect a glimpse
of *the ghost of Hamlet* .
.
"Sublime madman," thought I, "you doubtless would approve our
proceedings. You might perhaps even follow us to the center
of the earth, there to resolve your ET(er)NA(l) doubts."
.
But no ghost or anything else appeared upon the ancient walls.
The fact is, the castle is much later than the time of the
heroic prince of Denmark. It is now the residence of the
keeper of the Strait of the Sound, and through that Sound
more than *FIFTEEN* thousand vessels of all nations
pass *EVERy* year.
.
The castle of Kronborg soon disappeared in the murky atmosphere, as
well
as the tower of Helsinborg, which raises its head on the Swedish Bank.
And here the schooner began to feel in earnest the breezes of the
Kattegat. The *Valkyrie was SWIFT* enough, but with all sailing boats
there is the same uncertainty. Her cargo was coal, furniture, pottery,
woolen clothing, and a load of corn. As usual, the crew was small,
*FIVE* Danes doing the whole of the work.
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Art Neuendorffer