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50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
loosed their arrows until most had been used, leaving a thick, prickly carpet in the ground in front of the Yorkists.
After the Lancastrians had ceased loosing their arrows, Fauconberg ordered his archers to step forward again to shoot. When they had exhausted their ammunition, the Yorkists plucked ar... | 6,118,600 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
the ground to hinder the Lancastrian attack.
As the Yorkists reformed their ranks to receive the Lancastrian charge, their left flank came under attack by the horsemen from Castle Hill Wood mentioned by Waurin. The Yorkist left wing fell into disarray and several men started to flee. Edward had to tak... | 6,118,601 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
Gravett thought that the Lancastrian left had less momentum than the rest of its formation, skewing the line of battle such that its western end tilted towards Saxton.
The fighting continued for three hours, according to research by English Heritage, a government body in charge of conservation of hist... | 6,118,602 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
their lives. Polydore Vergil, chronicler for Henry VII of England, claimed that combat lasted for a total of 10 hours.
# Rout.
The tired Lancastrians flung off their helmets and armour to run faster. Without such protection, they were much more vulnerable to the attacks of the Yorkists. Norfolk's tro... | 6,118,603 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
bounties on their heads. Gregory's chronicle stated 42 knights were killed after they were taken prisoner.
Archaeological findings in the late 20th century shed light on the final moments of the battle. In 1996 workmen at a construction site in the town of Towton uncovered a mass grave, which archaeol... | 6,118,604 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
wound, a horizontal cut from a blade across the back.
The Lancastrians lost more troops in their rout than from the battlefield. Men struggling across the river were dragged down by currents and drowned. Those floundering were stepped on and pushed under water by their comrades behind them as they rus... | 6,118,605 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
under the flood of men and many drowned trying to cross. Those who hid in Tadcaster and York were hunted down and killed.
A newsletter dated 4 April 1461 reported a widely circulated figure of 28,000 casualties in the battle, which Charles Ross and other historians believe was exaggerated. The number ... | 6,118,606 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
The Lancastrian nobility had heavy losses. Trollope and Northumberland fell in battle, and Lord Dacre was said to have been killed by an archer who was perched in a "bur tree" (a local term for an elder). Conversely, the Yorkists lost only one notable member of the gentry—Horne—at Towton.
# Aftermath.... | 6,118,607 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
or fled the country, ending the house's domination over the north of England. Edward further exploited the situation, naming 14 Lancastrian peers as traitors. Approximately 96 Lancastrians of the rank of knight and below were also attainted—24 of them members of parliament.
The new king preferred winn... | 6,118,608 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
put an end (for the time being) to disputes over the country's state of leadership since the Act of Accord. The English people were assured that there was now one true king—Edward. He turned his attention to consolidating his rule over the country, winning over the people and putting down the rebellion... | 6,118,609 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
(Sir David Mathew) of Llandaff, Wales (1400–1484), a loyal Yorkist and Seneschal, was named Standard Bearer of England, and is credited with saving the life of Edward York, Edward IV of England in the battle; as a result, he was granted the right to use 'Towton' on the Mathew family arms.
By 1464, the... | 6,118,610 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
defeating Warwick and his Lancastrian cohorts at the Battle of Barnet in 1471.
# Literature.
In the sixteenth century William Shakespeare wrote a number of dramatisations of historic figures. The use of history as a backdrop, against which the familiar characters act out Shakespeare's drama, lends a ... | 6,118,611 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
said it was thanks to Shakespeare's dramatisation of the battle that the weak and ineffectual Henry was at least remembered by English society, albeit for his pining to have been born a shepherd rather than a king.
Shakespeare's version of the battle presents a notable scene that comes immediately aft... | 6,118,612 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
most notable of the playwright's written "rituals". The delivery of the event follows the pattern of an opera: after a long speech, the actors alternate among one another to deliver single-line asides to the audience. In this scene of grief – in a reversal of the approach adopted in his later historica... | 6,118,613 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
Battle of Towton was re-examined by Geoffrey Hill in his poem "Funeral Music" (1968). Hill presents the historical event through the voices of its combatants, looking at the turmoil of the era through their eyes. The common soldiers grouse about their physical discomforts and the sacrifices that they h... | 6,118,614 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
Edward IV, started to build a chapel to commemorate the battle. Richard died at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 and the building was never completed. It eventually fell into disrepair and collapsed. The ruins of the structure were evident five centuries later. In 1929, a stone cross supposedly from the ... | 6,118,615 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
of All Saints in Saxton and his tomb was reported in the late 19th century to be well maintained, although several of its panels had been weathered away. The bur tree from which Dacre's killer shot his arrow was cut down by the late 19th century, leaving its stump on the battlefield. Centuries after th... | 6,118,616 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
was no longer prominent in the public consciousness. British journalists lamented that people were ignorant of the Battle of Towton and of its significance. According to English Heritage, the battle was of the "greatest importance"; it was one of the largest, if not "the" largest, fought in England and... | 6,118,617 |
50236 | Battle of Towton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Towton | Battle of Towton
r several centuries a local farmer had scoured a hill figure, the Red Horse of Tysoe, each year, as part of the terms of his land tenancy. While the origins of the tradition have never been conclusively identified, it was locally claimed this was done to commemorate the Earl of Warwick's inspirational ... | 6,118,618 |
2313289 | École de théologie évangélique du Québec | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=École%20de%20théologie%20évangélique%20du%20Québec | École de théologie évangélique du Québec
École de théologie évangélique du Québec
École de théologie évangélique du Québec, in Montreal, Canada is a French bible college of the Christian and Missionary Alliance offering college level ministry certificates.
# History.
The Quebec City headquarters started training stu... | 6,118,619 |
2313289 | École de théologie évangélique du Québec | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=École%20de%20théologie%20évangélique%20du%20Québec | École de théologie évangélique du Québec
hip and financial aid.
The Montreal headquarters opened in the summer of 2004, in partnership with ETEM, l'École de Théologie Évangélique de Montréal (Mennonite) for a united bible college.
The emphasis is on spiritual disciplines to deepen our spiritual lives, learning to sel... | 6,118,620 |
2313293 | Any Road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Any%20Road | Any Road
Any Road
"Any Road" is a song by George Harrison and is the opening track to his posthumous album "Brainwashed". Harrison began writing the song in 1988, during the making of a video for his 1987 album "Cloud Nine".
# History.
The only known public performance of "Any Road" was in 1997, by Harrison, at the ... | 6,118,621 |
2313293 | Any Road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Any%20Road | Any Road
Road" was the last Harrison song to be released as a single. The song was released on 12 May 2003 as a single in the United Kingdom and peaked at number 37 on the UK Singles Chart.
# Grammy.
"Any Road" was nominated at the 2004 Grammy Awards for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and was also featured on the "... | 6,118,622 |
2313293 | Any Road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Any%20Road | Any Road
– electric guitar, backing vocals
- Jim Keltner – drums
# Later release.
Both "Any Road" and "Marwa Blues" were included in Harrison's 2009 career-spanning compilation, "".
# Covers.
- John Kadlecik plays "Any Road" with Furthur as well as his own John Kadlecik Band.
- American ukulele player and singer,... | 6,118,623 |
2313293 | Any Road | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Any%20Road | Any Road
and "Marwa Blues" were included in Harrison's 2009 career-spanning compilation, "".
# Covers.
- John Kadlecik plays "Any Road" with Furthur as well as his own John Kadlecik Band.
- American ukulele player and singer, Ukulele Ray, covered this song on his "Coming to Nothing" album in 2010.
- Joe Brown perfo... | 6,118,624 |
2313312 | The Longines Symphonette | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Longines%20Symphonette | The Longines Symphonette
The Longines Symphonette
The Longines Symphonette was a pre-recorded classical music program broadcast nightly on many Mutual Broadcasting System stations from 1943 to 1949. It then moved to CBS where it was heard Sundays at 2 pm from 1949 to 1957. The initial conductor was Macklin Marrow, fol... | 6,118,625 |
2313312 | The Longines Symphonette | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Longines%20Symphonette | The Longines Symphonette
iers" which aired on CBS from March 13, 1949, to April 22, 1955.
# Uses of the name.
The Longines Symphonette Society was a record label that specialized in releasing classic radio programs and multiple-record boxed sets. The Longines watch company sold its record business to Warner Music Gro... | 6,118,626 |
2313296 | Testerton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Testerton | Testerton
Testerton
Testerton is a small village in the English county of Norfolk. It is located between the village of Great Ryburgh and the market town of Fakenham. Any remaining population is included in the civil parish of Pudding Norton.
Testerton is one of a clutch of deserted villages and associated churches w... | 6,118,627 |
2313296 | Testerton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Testerton | Testerton
century the parish had only 18 communicants. By the end of that century the parish church of Saint Remigius was already very ruined, and at some point after this time the walls were completely removed.
The only surviving remnant of the medieval village is the church, which retains the western part of the wes... | 6,118,628 |
2313296 | Testerton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Testerton | Testerton
ng of what was once a much larger building, dating to 1802. With two storeys in seven bays, the building is constructed from red brick and has a south facade in the Georgian architecture style.
# References.
- Morris, J. (General Editor), (1984). "Domesday Book, 33 Norfolk, Part I and Part II", Chichester: ... | 6,118,629 |
2313287 | James Francis Edwards | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Francis%20Edwards | James Francis Edwards
James Francis Edwards
James Francis "Stocky" Edwards, CM, DFC & Bar, DFM, CD (born 5 June 1921) is a former Canadian fighter pilot during World War II. With 19 confirmed aerial victories, Edwards is Canada's highest scoring ace in the Western Desert Campaign.
# Early life.
Born in Nokomis, Sask... | 6,118,630 |
2313287 | James Francis Edwards | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Francis%20Edwards | James Francis Edwards
was posted to 260 Squadron, and saw intensive action for the rest of 1942. By September, he had 6 "kills" and was commissioned, actually jumping four grades to Flight Lieutenant[1]. A Distinguished Flying Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross were awarded by the start of 1943, by which time Edwards... | 6,118,631 |
2313287 | James Francis Edwards | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Francis%20Edwards | James Francis Edwards
On 3 September 1942 Edwards likely damaged Hans-Joachim Marseille's Bf 109 in combat. Marseille was the highest scoring pilot in North Africa and shot down more Western Allied aircraft than any other German pilot. Three days later he was the pilot believed to have shot down and killed Günter Stein... | 6,118,632 |
2313287 | James Francis Edwards | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Francis%20Edwards | James Francis Edwards
Anzio beachhead, three of them on a single day. At the beginning of March 1944, he was posted to the UK, flying operations over Europe with 274 Squadron, a fighter unit equipped, at the end of Edwards' tour, with the Hawker Tempest.
After leave in Canada, Edwards returned to the Western Front, fl... | 6,118,633 |
2313287 | James Francis Edwards | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Francis%20Edwards | James Francis Edwards
credits him with 19 victories, 2 shared, 6.5 probable, 17 damaged and 12 destroyed on the ground. During an interview, Edwards himself specified that he had 19 confirmed victories during the war. Many who flew with him have said that he only reported those "kills" he was certain of and that his re... | 6,118,634 |
2313287 | James Francis Edwards | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Francis%20Edwards | James Francis Edwards
overseas. Edwards was a key player in the post-war air force as his experience and leadership was used to train new pilots.
In 1983, Edwards and Michel Lavigne published a book about his wartime experiences entitled "Kittyhawk pilot: Wing Commander J.F. (Stocky) Edwards".
Also in 2009, Edwards w... | 6,118,635 |
2313287 | James Francis Edwards | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Francis%20Edwards | James Francis Edwards
On September 19, 2009, Vintage Wings took him for a flight over Ottawa in this P-40 giving him a chance to fly it as well.
Vintage Wings has also published stories on Stocky Edwards including the following:
- A Visit From A Living Legend.
- Flying With The Ace
# Decorations.
- Distinguished F... | 6,118,636 |
2313287 | James Francis Edwards | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Francis%20Edwards | James Francis Edwards
lph, Wayne (2005). "Aces, warriors and wingmen: the firsthand accounts of Canada's fighter pilots in the Second World War". John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd.. .
- Tate, Robert. "Hans-Joachim Marseille: An Illustrated Tribute to the Luftwaffe's "Star of Africa"". Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2008.... | 6,118,637 |
2313324 | The Icarus Agenda | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Icarus%20Agenda | The Icarus Agenda
The Icarus Agenda
The Icarus Agenda is a 1988 thriller novel by bestselling author Robert Ludlum. It is the sequel to "The Chancellor Manuscript".
# Plot introduction.
Evan Kendrick is a U.S. Congressman from a remote Western Colorado district. As a former building contractor in the Middle East, he... | 6,118,638 |
2313324 | The Icarus Agenda | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Icarus%20Agenda | The Icarus Agenda
"Manny" Weingrass, a world-renowned architect and a somewhat impossible person. In his first year in Congress, there is an uprising in Masqat - a hostage taking. The events remind him of a man known as The Mahdi whom Weingrass said was the reason for the deaths of his 78 friends. He goes to Oman for r... | 6,118,639 |
2313324 | The Icarus Agenda | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Icarus%20Agenda | The Icarus Agenda
this to the world to have Kendrick as Vice-President of the USA, because they consider him to be morally incorruptible. After the revealing, lives are lost and friendships broken, Kendrick is desperately looking for the people who are responsible for turning his life upside-down. But unknown to the In... | 6,118,640 |
2313324 | The Icarus Agenda | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Icarus%20Agenda | The Icarus Agenda
mentioned in his later novel "The Bancroft Strategy".
# Characters in "The Icarus Agenda".
- Evan Kendrick – US congressman and protagonist
- Emmanuel "Manny" Weingrass – architect
- The Mahdi
- The Sultan of Oman
- Khalehla
# Cultural references.
- Harry Burns is reading this book in the film... | 6,118,641 |
2313291 | Battle of Arklow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Arklow | Battle of Arklow
Battle of Arklow
The second Battle of Arklow took place during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 on 9 June when a force of United Irishmen from Wexford, estimated at 10,000 strong, launched an assault into County Wicklow, on the British-held town of Arklow, in an attempt to spread the rebellion into Wicklow... | 6,118,642 |
2313291 | Battle of Arklow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Arklow | Battle of Arklow
the town of Gorey and stayed within the Wexford border. On 5 June the rebels attempted to break out of county Wexford across the river Barrow and to spread the rebellion but were halted by a major British victory at the Battle of New Ross. When the rebels finally moved against Arklow, the town had been... | 6,118,643 |
2313291 | Battle of Arklow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Arklow | Battle of Arklow
Murphy. The British in Arklow consisted of ~1000 militia from Amtrim and Cavan and 150 regular cavalry supported by 250 Yeomanry, they were joined by 315 Durham Fencibles arriving an hour before the rebels.
The area surrounding the town and the approaches was covered by scrub and the rebel strategy ad... | 6,118,644 |
2313291 | Battle of Arklow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Arklow | Battle of Arklow
all entry points the Irish were thrown back by the musket fire of the well trained and disciplined militia and volunteers, and canister shot from the 3 pounder battalion gun brought by the Fencibles. An attempt by the British to turn the Irish failure into a rout was defeated when pikemen and sharpshoo... | 6,118,645 |
2313291 | Battle of Arklow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Arklow | Battle of Arklow
cover of darkness and collect their wounded and were not pursued or molested by the garrison who were, unknown to the rebels, down to their last three or four rounds per man and were themselves at the brink of defeat.
# Aftermath.
While rebel casualties were estimated at about 1,000 no full casualty ... | 6,118,646 |
2313291 | Battle of Arklow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Arklow | Battle of Arklow
ainst the encroaching British armies.
# See also.
- Battle of Arklow (1649)
# Primary References.
- Myles Byrne (1780-1862) ""Memoirs of Myles Byrne"" (1863)
- J.B Gordon ""History of the Rebellion in Ireland in the year 1798"" (1801)
- Edward Hay (County Wexford), ""History of the Insurrection o... | 6,118,647 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle (; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scie... | 6,118,648 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
Biography.
## Early years.
Boyle was born at Lismore Castle, in County Waterford, Ireland, the seventh son and fourteenth child of The 1st Earl of Cork ('the Great Earl of Cork') and Catherine Fenton. Lord Cork, then known simply as Richard Boyle, had arrived in Dublin from England in 1588 during the Tud... | 6,118,649 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
Weston, who was born in Lismore in 1541.
As a child, Boyle was fostered to a local family, as were his elder brothers. Boyle received private tutoring in Latin, Greek, and French and when he was eight years old, following the death of his mother, he was sent to Eton College in England. His father's friend... | 6,118,650 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
but they affect not the Irish". After spending over three years at Eton, Robert travelled abroad with a French tutor. They visited Italy in 1641 and remained in Florence during the winter of that year studying the "paradoxes of the great star-gazer" Galileo Galilei, who was elderly but still living in 1641... | 6,118,651 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
many experiments there. From that time, Robert devoted his life to scientific research and soon took a prominent place in the band of enquirers, known as the "Invisible College", who devoted themselves to the cultivation of the "new philosophy". They met frequently in London, often at Gresham College, and ... | 6,118,652 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
have any Hermetic thoughts in it."
In 1654, Boyle left Ireland for Oxford to pursue his work more successfully. An inscription can be found on the wall of University College, Oxford, the High Street at Oxford (now the location of the Shelley Memorial), marking the spot where Cross Hall stood until the ear... | 6,118,653 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
account of Boyle's work with the air pump was published in 1660 under the title "New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects".
Among the critics of the views put forward in this book was a Jesuit, Francis Line (1595–1675), and it was while answering his objections t... | 6,118,654 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
Europe the hypothesis is sometimes attributed to Edme Mariotte, although he did not publish it until 1676 and was likely aware of Boyle's work at the time.
In 1663 the Invisible College became The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, and the charter of incorporation granted by Charles ... | 6,118,655 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
and certain way of finding longitudes", "potent drugs to alter or exalt imagination, waking, memory and other functions and appease pain, procure innocent sleep, harmless dreams, etc." They are extraordinary because all but a few of the 24 have come true.
It was during his time at Oxford that Boyle was a ... | 6,118,656 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
left Oxford for London where he resided at the house of his elder sister Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh, in Pall Mall. He experimented in the laboratory she had in her home and attended her salon of intellectuals interested in the sciences. The siblings maintained "a lifelong intellectual partnership, wher... | 6,118,657 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
seriously and he gradually withdrew from his public engagements, ceasing his communications to the Royal Society, and advertising his desire to be excused from receiving guests, "unless upon occasions very extraordinary", on Tuesday and Friday forenoon, and Wednesday and Saturday afternoon. In the leisure ... | 6,118,658 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
whose home he had lived and with whom he had shared scientific pursuits for more than twenty years. Boyle died from paralysis. He was buried in the churchyard of St Martin-in-the-Fields, his funeral sermon being preached by his friend, Bishop Gilbert Burnet. In his will, Boyle endowed a series of lectures ... | 6,118,659 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
of the modern theories of philosophy, until he was "provided of experiments" to help him judge of them. He refrained from any study of the atomical and the Cartesian systems, and even of the Novum Organum itself, though he admits to "transiently consulting" them about a few particulars. Nothing was more al... | 6,118,660 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
tended to use.
Robert Boyle was an alchemist; and believing the transmutation of metals to be a possibility, he carried out experiments in the hope of achieving it; and he was instrumental in obtaining the repeal, in 1689, of the statute of Henry IV against multiplying gold and silver. With all the import... | 6,118,661 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
Sceptical Chymist", published in 1661, in which he criticised the "experiments whereby vulgar Spagyrists are wont to endeavour to evince their Salt, Sulphur and Mercury to be the true Principles of Things." For him chemistry was the science of the composition of substances, not merely an adjunct to the art... | 6,118,662 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
various sorts and sizes, into which, however, they were not to be resolved in any known way. He studied the chemistry of combustion and of respiration, and conducted experiments in physiology, where, however, he was hampered by the "tenderness of his nature" which kept him from anatomical dissections, espe... | 6,118,663 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
had he agreed to take holy orders, but this he refused to do on the ground that his writings on religious subjects would have greater weight coming from a layman than a paid minister of the Church.
Moreover, Boyle incorporated his scientific interests into his theology, believing that natural philosophy c... | 6,118,664 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
to demonstrate God's involvement with the world. He also attempted to tackle complex theological questions using methods derived from his scientific practices. In "Some Physico-Theological Considerations about the Possibility of the Resurrection" (1675), he used a chemical experiment known as the reduction... | 6,118,665 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
translating the Bible or portions of it into various languages. Boyle supported the policy that the Bible should be available in the vernacular language of the people. An Irish language version of the New Testament was published in 1602 but was rare in Boyle's adult life. In 1680–85 Boyle personally financ... | 6,118,666 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
studying races, and he believed that all human beings, no matter how diverse their physical differences, came from the same source: Adam and Eve. He studied reported stories of parents' giving birth to different coloured albinos, so he concluded that Adam and Eve were originally white and that Caucasians c... | 6,118,667 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
due to the fact that now we know that skin colour is disposed by genes, which are actually contained in the semen. Boyle's writings mention that at his time, for "European Eyes", beauty was not measured so much in colour of skin, but in "stature, comely symmetry of the parts of the body, and good features ... | 6,118,668 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
(see Boyle Lectures).
# Awards and honours.
As a founder of the Royal Society, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1663. Boyle's law is named in his honour. The Royal Society of Chemistry issues a Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science, named in his honour. The Boyle Medal for Scient... | 6,118,669 |
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– "New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects"
- 1661 – "The Sceptical Chymist"
- 1662 – Whereunto is Added a Defence of the Authors Explication of the Experiments, Against the Obiections of Franciscus Linus and Thomas Hobbes (a book-length addendum to the second... | 6,118,670 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
of Forms and Qualities according to the Corpuscular Philosophy". (A continuation of his work on the spring of air demonstrated that a reduction in ambient pressure could lead to bubble formation in living tissue. This description of a viper in a vacuum was the first recorded description of decompression si... | 6,118,671 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
of the Strange Subtilty, Great Efficacy, Determinate Nature of Effluviums
- 1674 – Two volumes of tracts on the Saltiness of the Sea, Suspicions about the Hidden Realities of the Air, Cold, Celestial Magnets
- 1674 – "Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de Vacuo"
- 1676 – Experiments and Notes a... | 6,118,672 |
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History of the Human Blood"
- 1685 – Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters
- 1686 – "A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature"
- 1690 – "Medicina Hydrostatica"
- 1691 – "Experimenta et Observationes Physicae"
Among his religious and philosophical writin... | 6,118,673 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
a Dog's Pulse at Gresham College
- 1675 – Some Considerations about the Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion, with a Discourse about the Possibility of the Resurrection
- 1687 – "The Martyrdom of Theodora, and of Didymus"
- 1690 – "The Christian Virtuoso"
# See also.
- , phosphorus manufacturer wh... | 6,118,674 |
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Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1961.
- Hunter, Michael, "Boyle : Between God and Science", New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.
- Hunter, Michael, "Robert Boyle, 1627–91: Scrupulosity and Science", The Boydell Press, 2000
- Principe, Lawrence, "The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Qu... | 6,118,675 |
50237 | Robert Boyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Boyle | Robert Boyle
Virtue of Gems" – Gem and Diamond Foundation
- "Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours" – Gem and Diamond Foundation
- "Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours" – Project Gutenberg
- Boyle Papers University of London
- "Hydrostatical Paradoxes" – Google Books
# External links.
- Read... | 6,118,676 |
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s University of London
- "Hydrostatical Paradoxes" – Google Books
# External links.
- Readable versions of Excellence of the mechanical hypothesis, Excellence of theology, and Origin of forms and qualities
- Robert Boyle Project, Birkbeck, University of London
- Summary juxtaposition of Boyle's "The S... | 6,118,677 |
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Order of battle at the Battle of Trafalgar
This is a listing of the fleets that participated in the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, and the number of killed and wounded per ship.
Named officers marked '†', killed in action or died of wounds.
# British fleet.
The ta... | 6,118,678 |
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rn flank. They are listed in sailing order. The British fleet during the battle consisted of 33 warships, 27 of which were ships of the line.
During the battle the frigates and smaller vessels acted in support, but did not engage the enemy.
# Franco-Spanish fleet.
The follo... | 6,118,679 |
2313355 | Dale Mitchell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dale%20Mitchell | Dale Mitchell
Dale Mitchell
Dale Mitchell may refer to:
- Dale Mitchell (baseball) (1921–1987), American baseball player
- Dale Mitchell (soccer) (born 1958), Canadian soccer player
- Dale Mitchell (ice hockey) (born 1989), Canadian ice hockey player | 6,118,680 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin II is the second album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on 22 October 1969 in the United States and on 31 October 1969 in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at several locations in both the United Kingdom and N... | 6,118,681 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
the band's evolving musical style of blues-derived material and their guitar riff-based sound. It has been described as the band's heaviest album. Six of the nine songs were written by the band, while the other three were reinterpretations of Chicago blues songs by Willie Dixon and Howlin' Wolf. One sin... | 6,118,682 |
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Recording Package in 1970. On 15 November 1999, the album was certified 12× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales passing 12 million copies. Since its release, various writers and music critics have regularly cited "Led Zeppelin II" as one of the greatest and most in... | 6,118,683 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
between concerts, a studio was booked and the recording process begun, necessarily resulting in spontaneity and urgency, which is reflected in the sound. Several songs resulted from improvisation while touring, including during the instrumental sections of "Dazed and Confused", and were recorded mostly ... | 6,118,684 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
recording, and mixing sessions were done in many different locations, and criticised the writing and recording process. "Thank You", "The Lemon Song" and "Moby Dick" were overdubbed during the tour, while the mixing of "Whole Lotta Love" and "Heartbreaker" was also done on tour. Page later stated "In ot... | 6,118,685 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
Production was entirely credited to Jimmy Page, with Eddie Kramer engineering. Kramer later said, "The famous "Whole Lotta Love" mix, where everything is going bananas, is a combination of Jimmy and myself just flying around on a small console twiddling every knob known to man."
Kramer later gave great... | 6,118,686 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
reflect the evolving sound of the band and their live performances. Plant made his first songwriting contributions on "Led Zeppelin II"; he had been unable to contribute to the writing process for the first album because of a prior contract with CBS Records.
## Side one.
"Whole Lotta Love" was built a... | 6,118,687 |
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use of stereo panning and other controls available on the desk. The song was edited down to a single in the US, where it became a top 5 hit. In the UK, a single release was cancelled; the group never issued any singles there during their active career together. It was finally issued as a single in 1997.... | 6,118,688 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
medley towards the end of the set. A different arrangement of the song was played for the Knebworth Fayre concerts in 1979. It was the last song the group ever performed live with Bonham, on 7 July 1980. "Whole Lotta Love" has since been critically praised as one of the definitive heavy metal tracks, th... | 6,118,689 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
It was mostly recorded live and expanded to include new lyrics, including the sexually-charged phrase "squeeze my lemon" which was borrowed from Robert Johnson's "Travelling Riverside Blues", which the band had played for the BBC radio show "Top Gear" broadcast on 29 June 1969.
"Thank You" was written ... | 6,118,690 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" was purported to be written about a groupie the band encountered while touring the US. The group disliked the track, considering it to be little more than filler, and consequently it was never played live by the group. Plant performed the track live on his 1990 solo tou... | 6,118,691 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
regularly on solo tours, and it was part of Page and Plant's live set in the mid-1990s. It was finally performed live for the first time by Led Zeppelin at the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert in 2007.
"Moby Dick" was designed as a showcase for Bonham's drum solo. It was originally called "Pat's Delight" ... | 6,118,692 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
in addition to the straightforward blues structure of the original. It was played live regularly throughout late 1969 and 1970.
# Artwork.
The album sleeve design was from a poster by David Juniper, who was simply told by the band to come up with an interesting idea. Juniper was a fellow student of Pa... | 6,118,693 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
her role as Marie-Magdalene in the film "", a leftist anti-war satire by William Klein (1969). The cover also pictured the outline of a Zeppelin on a brown background (similar to the cover of the band's first album), which gave the album its nickname "Brown Bomber".
# Release and reception.
The album ... | 6,118,694 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
"Led Zeppelin II" was the band's first album to hit No. 1 in the US, knocking The Beatles' "Abbey Road" (1969) twice from the top spot, where it remained for seven weeks. By April 1970 it had registered three million American sales, whilst in Britain it enjoyed a 138-week residence on the LP chart, clim... | 6,118,695 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
reached No. 4 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in January 1970, after Atlantic went against the group's wishes by releasing a shorter version on 45. The single's B-side, "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)", also hit the "Billboard" chart, peaking at No. 65 in April 1970. The album helped establish Led Z... | 6,118,696 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
group's heavy sound and white blues, while writing that "until you've listened to the album eight hundred times, as I have, it seems as if it's just one especially heavy song extended over the space of two whole sides". In "The Village Voice", Robert Christgau jokingly referred to the band as "the best ... | 6,118,697 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
emerged clearly on the second album, and more and more I am coming to understand it as an artistic triumph."
On 10 November 1969, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and in 1990 it was certified 5× platinum reflecting shipping of five million copies. By 14 Nove... | 6,118,698 |
50239 | Led Zeppelin II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Led%20Zeppelin%20II | Led Zeppelin II
bands that followed it". The album was described as a "brilliant if heavy-handed blues-rock offensive", by popular music scholar Ronald Zalkind. According to Robert Santelli's "The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia" (2001), Led Zeppelin "had already begun to move beyond its blues-rock influ... | 6,118,699 |
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