Word: agincourt
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...made for Charles II after Cromwell destroyed the original. The Imperial State Crown, which Elizabeth will wear as she returns to the palace, was made for Queen Victoria in 1838. It contains 3,095 gems, including the priceless Black Prince's Ruby worn by Henry V at Agincourt...
...offer Agincourt or Flanders...
...grounds they are really Democrats and "to discourage Democrats who are ready for political conversion." Krock prepared for keynoter MacArthur "In Metrical Praise of a Steamroller," a parody of Henry V's speech to his outnumbered followers (Shakespeare's Henry V, Act IV) before their victory at Agincourt on St. Crispin...
Cartoonist Vicky last week recalled Shakespeare's description in King Henry V of the night before the battle of Agincourt, as Frenchmen stood around camp fires discussing the prowess that their English foes drew from a beef diet (see cartoon). Vicky did not think it necessary to remind Britons of the Duke of Orleans' comment: "Ay, but these English are shrewdly* out of beef...
...current issue, out last week. Church architecture is in a rut, and has been for a generation. "Almost without exception," says the FORUM, "the houses of worship erected in this, country since 1920 could more appropriately have been built in England about the time of Crecy and Agincourt or in colonial America in the reign of George III." And few of the new churches will represent any advance. Among the reasons: traditionalism among laity and clergy (a preference for watered-down Gothic and imitation Colonial), and the failure of architects to offer fresh, contemporary alternatives...