Word: fitzroy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleasant Sunday afternoon aboard H.M.S. Beagle, outward bound from Plymouth in 1831 on a scientific voyage around the world, Robert FitzRoy, her captain, would entertain his officers with readings from the Bible. A painting of such an event is one of the illustrations in Alan Moorehead's book. Depicted as a drab civilian among the scarlet naval persons present, the ship's naturalist, Charles Darwin, also clutches a Bible. The Beagle's Bibles contained an annotation dictated by the Anglican Archbishop Ussher, firmly stating that the Creation began promptly at 9 a.m., Oct. 23, 4004 B.C. After...
...Only a chance friendship with the Rev. Professor J. S. Henslow of Cambridge, a botanist, led to Darwin's recommendation as the Beagle's naturalist. Chance, plus a certain amount of charm, determined that he hit it off immediately with the Beagle's hot-tempered Captain FitzRoy, a Tory traditionalist with a fundamentalist belief in the literal truth of the Book of Genesis...
Using the name "Fitzroy Herbert" he visited rooms in the Houses, claiming to be a student in need of funds to travel back to his university, which he alternately described as the University of Illinois, Columbia, Chicago, and Tufts. In reality, he was an erstwhile student at Massachusetts Art School...
...using the name "Fitzroy Hubert" has been operating in the Houses for the past two days. He has asked several different undergraduates for money, always under the pretense that he needs a loan to return to the university of Chicago...