Word: royale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...across the deserted, fog-wet decks of the Eagle, and men come scrambling up ladders and out of doorways. Dozens pull themselves up into the rigging, swarming 150 ft. above the deck to loosen the tightly furled sails. 'Loose the foreroyal!' cries Shannon. 'Loose the main royal! Man the fore t'gallants'l sheets and halyard there! Look alive, deck!' The sails begin to drop like curtains at a play's end. Now the men on deck haul furiously on the sheets to trim sails to the wind. A dozen men grab...
...exists in most things, and in 1752 Benjamin Franklin demonstrated with his kite that it can be drawn from the sky. But what is electricity? What causes it? Where is it most evident in nature? These questions are much in the air nowadays, and almost every issue of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions contains some report of new experiments with electric eels and rays. Among the latest...
...Americans owe allegiance to George III? The author calls him "the royal brute of Great Britain" and a "hardened, sullen-tempered Pharoah." Do any monarchs have a hereditary right to rule their subjects? The author argues that dynasties are founded by "nothing better than the principal ruffian of some restless gang." Does America depend on Britain for safety or prosperity? Only in "the credulous weakness of our minds." Would it be better to delay? "Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART...
...century ago from the Orient and the Ottoman Empire. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to Constantinople, was so impressed by the Turks' resistance to the small pox that she had her own children inoculated by the Turkish method and recommended the procedure to the royal family. King George I tried it first on six captives at Newgate Prison, then on eleven charity children. Since they survived, he had his granddaughters inoculated...
Perhaps the greatest danger to working women, however, is the new cult of sensibility, the maudlin literary fashion that American magazines have recently imported from England. The Royal American Magazine has repeatedly warned women of the dangers they court by taxing their brains with too much learning. Similarly, a sentimentalist writing for the Pennsylvania Magazine advises women not to be too active, too witty or too cheerful. Praise is reserved for the young lady whose "gentle bosom burns,/ Like lamps plac'd near sepulchral urns,/ Or like the glowworm in the night,/ It gleams with melancholy light." Although John...