Passages to the Past (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The Favourite : Ambition, Politics and Love - Sir Walter Raleigh in Elizabeth I's court by Mathew Lyons Release Date: May 27, 2010 SYNOPSIS: When the adventurer Walter Ralegh first encountered Elizabeth I, he supposedly placed his cloak over a puddle and allowed the queen to walk across it. Thus began one of the most intriguing relationships between a monarch and her favourite....
nunoncastors (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
The Artist and his Luckless Wife They lead a horrid haunted life, Surrounded by the things he’s made That are not wanted by the trade. The world is very fair to see; The Artist will not let it be; He fiddles with the works of God, And makes them look uncommon odd. The Artist is an awful man, He does not do the things [...]
Dr. X's Free Associations (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
| | November 02, 2009What Do Fox News, Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms, Teddy Roosevelt, Davy Crockett, John Wayne, Elizabeth Dole and Sir Walter Raleigh Have in Common'Warning: If you look for more than 30 seconds, you might end up stabbing your eyes out.Posted by DrX | | Comments That hurts. The warning isn't nearly strong enough.Posted by: FLGator | In the old days this would have been...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Executed on this day 1618. 'Stupid Get!'
The Modern Historian (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Born in Devon in 1552 into a Protestant, Walter Raleigh served in Ireland during the suppression of the Desmond Rebellions between 1580 and 1581. He received forty-thousand acres of land seized from the Irish and became a major landlord in Munster. By this time Raleigh had embarked on a career at the royal court that resulted in him quickly becoming a favourite of Queen Elizabeth....
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... to recover the photos. It's a pretty remarkable project - as though the complete journals of Sir Walter Raleigh had been found written in an obscure Elizabethan code, and the only way to translate the treasure were by refurbishing a heavy cabinet full of derelict gears and pulleys that someone had found in a cobwebbed dungeon of the Tower of London.
The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... interweaves narratives about Christopher Columbus, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Sir Walter Raleigh, and laments the political state of America under George W. Bush. The intrusion of liberal bromides rings false, as does Howard’s elegiac tone: behind the lyrical prose, there’s little of substance to mourn. ?
TIMES UP! (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Global Warming - Climate Change Look closely at this picture of IceAge Clothing and compare it with Tudor Clothes In the Ice Age Furs were worn and later in Tudor times, Men wore Padded clothes Warm clothes are worn when it's cold So in the past it was far colder than it is now So What sort of Car was driven in the IceAge and did Walter Raleigh rashly leave his Set top box on Standby?...
Extreme Saving (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... Elizabeth, and to the golden age which he believed she had brought to England. Sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh and commended by the foremost literary minds of his day, Spenser's book remains one of the crowning poetic achievements of the Elizabethan period. Coffee Break Collection 002 - Faith This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) works in English suitable for...
Ponderings over the pond (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
On the website http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-stories-exams.htm#01, a vast list of exam answers for questions by American students can be found. Five such I have chosen to list today:16. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is...
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The first permanent English settlement in the New World was Jamestown, Virginia. It was the early 1600’s, 1607 to be precise, when the three ships sailed up the coast of the wilderness. The English had tried to establish a colony a few years earlier that we now know as the mysterious Roanoke. The settlement had all the signs of being successful but when Sir Walter Raleigh returned from...
Lettuce-eating (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... and not very castle-like roofs, though the castle was first built in the sixteenth century and Sir Walter Raleigh lived there for a while. I've not been out to the island for quite a few years, hence no closer photos. I'll try and put that right next time I go. In the meantime there are some good pics here and here and here . Gorey Castle wasn't modified by the Germans to the same...
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
We do not where several tipsters first heard about this website for “George Hutchins,” a crazy person supposedly running for a North Carolina congressional seat in 2010, but it is very pretty to be sure. Before loading the page, know that you will have a mere 10 seconds to explore the site before your eyes [...] North Carolina - Walter Raleigh - United States Congress - United...
Relentless until death (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... of exploration. When one thinks of exploration, we think of Sir Francis Drake, Marco Polo and Sir Walter Raleigh. These men set sail on wooden ships, for distant lands where no western man had ever gone before. So how can one explore what is essentially a place not only discovered, but developed and shaped and changed and inhabited over decades if not centuries? Well, civilisation...
CANNONFIRE (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... not on human skin. (He also seems weirdly obsessed with the Brits, especially with "SIR WALTER RALEIGH.") Maybe the Democrats created this page, and this candidate, in order to make the tea-partiers look ridiculous... Normally, I would counsel Hutchins to visit Web Pages That Suck in order to learn what to do and what not to do. But that site, in its current incarnation,...
