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...Shal A. Held '94, then chair of Hillel, said at the time that he saw wound, but not a break." The protest was not against the BSA itself, he noted, but Hillel was "disappointed" with the choice of speaker...
...well as a sequel to his present volume. When his own time comes, the admiral will be able to say, as another of his favorites, John Davis, said to his men off the fearsome Strait of Magellan: if it be God's will "that our mortall being shal now take an ende, I rather desire that it may be in proceeding than in returning...
...born assured of wealth. Rarer still are the spoons on which tots teethed in Olde Englande. So rare, in fact, that in 1531, when table manners were simply a toothy process of disconnecting meat from bones, one Humfrey Cooke willed that "every one of my childrene shal have one silver spone callid the Apostles." For when it came to skimming the crème de la crème, nothing could match a set of spoons decorated with figures of the Twelve Apostles...
Seagoing Brothels. Elizabeth rewarded him with knighthood, but the King of Spain was less appreciative. He resolved that "England shal smoake," and in 1588 the Duke of Medina Sidonia sailed north with the mightiest naval armament of the age. According to Hakluyt, there were 30,000 men in 134 ships, among them several seagoing brothels and 64 enormous floating forts. The British fleet made a far less impressive array: 12,000 men in 100 ships, and beside the Spanish galleons the British men of war looked like overdecorated dinghies. But the British ships had the advantage of "dexteritie," and most...
East of Calais, Drake closed in for the kill. "I dout it not," he wrote to Lord Charles Howard, his commander in chief, "but ere it be long so to handle the matere with the Duke of Sidonia as he shal wish himselfe at St Mary Port among his orenge trees." Ere long indeed the desperate duke was driven into "the boisterous and uncouth Northren seas," where many of his "battered and crazed ships" were wrecked. "Insomuch that of 134 ships there returned home 53 onely small and great...