Thursday, October 12, 2006
This Day in Late 16th Century History
On this day in 1580, Francis Drake sails back into Plymouth, England in the Golden Hind, having sailed around the world by going west, the first English navigator to do so (and the second person after Magellan (kinda) 7 decades before). He started on December 13, 1577. For his efforts (and the Spanish treasure he captured off the West Coast of South America) he was knighted the next year by Elizabeth I.
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A replica of the Golden Hind* played the pirate ship Blarney Cock in perhaps the best pirate movie ever made -- Swashbuckler.
* IIRC, "Hind" rhymes with "Wind".
* IIRC, "Hind" rhymes with "Wind".
And a hind is a deer, right? Swashbuckler is a hole in my movie knowledge. Thanks for the continuing education.
"Wind", like the thing that blows through Boulder (US pronunciation), not "wind" like what you would do to a watch if you were a Luddite.
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No I got the wind like Boulder air but when I checked my American Heritage Dictionary, it had the female deer pronounced like what you do to a Luddite's watch.
We wouldn't be having this disussion if Drake hadn't renamed the ship which was originally called the Pelican, I think.
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We wouldn't be having this disussion if Drake hadn't renamed the ship which was originally called the Pelican, I think.
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