Cornovia PostcardsSir Walter Raleigh's Birthplace, Budleigh Salterton, 1910 - Valentine's Postcard
WIST QuotationsA quotation from Walter Raleigh
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far stretchèd greatness, all the pride, cruelty and ambition of man, and covered it all over with those two narrow words, Hic jacet!Walter Raleigh (c. 1552-1618) English statesman, soldier, writer, explorer
The Historie of the World, in Five Bookes, Book 5, ch. 6, sec. 12 (1614)
More about this quote: wist.info/raleigh-walter/81507…
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damian entwistleToday's poem:
Prais’d be Diana’s Fair and Harmless Light
- by Sir Walter Raleigh
Cornovia Postcards (Old)Sir Walter Raleigh, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1956 - RP Postcard
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴@claralistensprechen3rd @Lassielmr @TheEconomist @GreenFire
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...has been in this game since the coronation of the first and last #Stuart Queen, Anne, in 1702. ;)
The #BritishEmpire came (arguably) into existence with #QueenElizabethI's permission for #WalterRaleigh to set up a colony in N-America (#RoanokeIsland) 1) and was cemented by the the 1713 #TreatyOfUtrecht which ended the #WarOfTheSpanishSecession, significantly enlarging #GB.
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Spektrum (inoffiziell)Thomas Harriot hat als erster Mensch mit einem Teleskop astronomische Beobachtungen angstellt. Warum er trotzdem nicht so berühmt ist, wie er sein sollte, erfahrt ihr in der neuen Folge der Sternengeschichten. Wer den Podcast finanziell unterstützen möchte, kann das hier tun: Mit PayPal (paypal.me/florianfreistetter), Patreon (patreon.com/sternengeschichten) oder Steady (steadyhq.com/sternengeschichte…) 🎙️#Astronomie #Universum #Sternengeschichten #Astrodicticum #Sterne #ThomasHarriot #GalileoGalilei #1609 #HenryPercy #WalterRaleigh #NorthCarolina #Navigation #Algonkin #EarlofNorthumberland #GunpowderPlot #Mond #Mondkarte #HansLipperhey #55Cancrif #55Cancri #Dualsystem #Binärsystem #JohannFabricius #ChristophScheiner #AlbertGirard #ZachariasJanssen #Exoplanet #Sonnenflecken #Himmelsbeobachtung
Sternengeschichten Folge 595: Thomas Harriot, der erste moderne Astronom?
Sternengeschichten Folge 595: Thomas Harriot, der erste moderne Astronom?
शून्यताI'm totally floored by this nugget of information that Sir #WalterRaleigh might have controlled his emotions around potatoes when he first saw them. Sir Walter, you're my hero. (i m)
Henry Holiday's SnarkIn one of Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876), Louise Schweitzer ("One Wild Flower", 2012, page 223) found this allusion to John Everett Millais' "Boyhood of Raleigh" (https://snrk.de/holidays-butcher-and-millais-raleigh/).
#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #bookillustration #Allusions #Pastiche #Millais #PreRaphaelite #JohnEverettMillais #Raleigh #WalterRaleigh
Draic inna n-airscél n-amraeRoarning!
The poem for today is "As you came from the Holy Land" by Sir Walter Raleigh:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44938/as-you-came-from-the-holy-land-attributed
