Word: elizabeth
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...commanded by Queen Elizabeth to "annoy the King of Spain in his Indies,"red-bearded little Francis Drake put out from Plymouth in the Golden Hind, entered Magellan Strait, went plundering up the west coast of the New World. Laden with Spanish treasure, he pushed north in search of an Arctic passage back to England. One day in the spring of 1579, he sailed into a "convenient and fit harborough" somewhere near the future site of San Francisco. There he received the homage of native Indians and, according to his chaplain's account, nailed to a "faire great poste...
...knowne vnto all men by these presents, June 17, 1579, by the grace of God and in the name of Heir Majesty Queen Elizabeth of England and Herr successors forever I take possession of this kingdome whose king and people freely resigne their right and title in the whole land unto Herr Majesties keepeing now named by me an to bee knowne unto all men as Nova Albion. Francis Drake...
...German Nazis he is merely a "noise maker" and his U. S. patroness is almost stone deaf. Nevertheless, Paul Hindemith is a god to many a musical modern and his U. S. debut in Washington. D. C. last week-at Patroness Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge's eighth festival of Chamber music in the hall of the Library of Con-gress-was an event of first importance...
...England Conservatory of Music, Somerville Junior High School, Boy Scouts of Roslindale, Simmons College, Hart School of South Boston, students of the State Extension Courses, Burke High School in Boston, Salem High School, Fenn School, Thayer Academy, Winsor School, American Physical Society (M. I. T.), Newtonville School, Elizabeth Peabody House, Cambridge Settlement Home, Boston Alumni of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Stoneham Junior High School, Girls High School in Roxbury; Girl Scouts of Arlington, Concord, Waltham, Hingham, West Medford, Somerville, and Salem; and church groups from Salem, Brookline, Kingston, Framingham, Pembroke, and Newton...
Looking back at 1912 it is hard to believe that Sarah Bernhardt's movie "Queen Elizabeth" much agitated a year so full of exciting events. People talked about the Titanic and the Bull Moose and the Balkan War if they were not reading the latest books of O. Henry, Edith Wharton, and Henry Adams. Just out of the nickleodeon era, the movies in America were far inferior to European productions, and attracted only a million persons a day. In 1912, however, the entertainment became an art under the patronage of the great Bernhardt, an event perhaps more portentious than others...