Got my reference-librarian on. Under the cut in case anyone's still working on them:
The 24-foot brass gun nicknamed 'Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol', built by Jan Tolhuys in 1544 and decorated with grotesques, the figures of Liberty, Victory and Fame, and the river god Scalda, originally guarded the English Channel. In spite of its popular name, the gun was a gift from Charles V to Henry VIII. It's now in place outside Dover Castle (http://www.dover.freeuk.com/garrison/pistol.htm).
The Horse Monument at St. George's Park in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, commemorates the horses who served and died in the Anglo-Boer War. The monument, by Messrs Whitehead and Sons, depicts a kneeling soldier standing in front of a bridled horse.
In Hendrick Willem van Loon's Van Loon's Lives, the lives of eminent historical figures are described in dialogue through the device of fictional dinner parties on the island of Veere.
Willem Janszoon Blaeu studied astronomy under Tycho Brahe for several years, before going on to become a leading engraver, mapmaker and globe producer. With his son Joan Blaue, Willem produced an elaborate 208-map work, the Atlas Novus. He was appointed mapmaker to the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch) in 1633, and was succeeded by Joan on his death in 1638.
William the Silent had dined with Rombertus van Uylenburgh on the evening of his assassination. Van Uylenburgh's daughter Saskia later married Rembrandt.van Rin.
During the Raid on the Medway in 1667, Michiel de Ruyter led a Dutch squadron up the Medway to Chatham and towed the HMS Royal Charles back to the United Provinces.
The Reverend Richard Harris Barham, under the nom de plume Thomas Ingoldsby, wrote screeds of light verse set in his childhood manor home, Tappington. From what I can tell, the Ingoldsby Legends were reprinted in just about every newspaper in the English-speaking world.
In the 1935 film No Limit, George Formby (of all people) plays an 'umble chimney-sweep (what else?) set on winning a motorcycle race on the Isle of Man. He wins over the Rainbow Motorcycle Company with his pluck or some such, and is appointed an official Rainbow rider for the big race, which of course he wins, before wooing his equally plucky lady friend Florrie.
Trilby models for a painting titled 'The Pitcher Goes To The Well', in George du Maurier's novel Trilby, before she falls under the mesmerising powers of the original Svengali and is transformed into the nineteenth-century equivalent of an X Factor finalist.
The Integrated Circuit or microchip was the invention of Jack Kilby. Some time in the 1970s, Gordon Moore noted that integrated circuits were growing ever more complex at such a rapid rate that the number of transistors on each chip - and, as a result, its computing capacity - could be expected to double about ever two years. Computer processing power has largely followed Moore's Law - mostly because the IC industry uses the double-every-two-years metric as its benchmark.
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Date: 2013-01-06 01:27 pm (UTC)The 24-foot brass gun nicknamed 'Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol', built by Jan Tolhuys in 1544 and decorated with grotesques, the figures of Liberty, Victory and Fame, and the river god Scalda, originally guarded the English Channel. In spite of its popular name, the gun was a gift from Charles V to Henry VIII. It's now in place outside Dover Castle (http://www.dover.freeuk.com/garrison/pistol.htm).
The Horse Monument at St. George's Park in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, commemorates the horses who served and died in the Anglo-Boer War. The monument, by Messrs Whitehead and Sons, depicts a kneeling soldier standing in front of a bridled horse.
In Hendrick Willem van Loon's Van Loon's Lives, the lives of eminent historical figures are described in dialogue through the device of fictional dinner parties on the island of Veere.
Willem Janszoon Blaeu studied astronomy under Tycho Brahe for several years, before going on to become a leading engraver, mapmaker and globe producer. With his son Joan Blaue, Willem produced an elaborate 208-map work, the Atlas Novus. He was appointed mapmaker to the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch) in 1633, and was succeeded by Joan on his death in 1638.
William the Silent had dined with Rombertus van Uylenburgh on the evening of his assassination. Van Uylenburgh's daughter Saskia later married Rembrandt.van Rin.
During the Raid on the Medway in 1667, Michiel de Ruyter led a Dutch squadron up the Medway to Chatham and towed the HMS Royal Charles back to the United Provinces.
The Reverend Richard Harris Barham, under the nom de plume Thomas Ingoldsby, wrote screeds of light verse set in his childhood manor home, Tappington. From what I can tell, the Ingoldsby Legends were reprinted in just about every newspaper in the English-speaking world.
In the 1935 film No Limit, George Formby (of all people) plays an 'umble chimney-sweep (what else?) set on winning a motorcycle race on the Isle of Man. He wins over the Rainbow Motorcycle Company with his pluck or some such, and is appointed an official Rainbow rider for the big race, which of course he wins, before wooing his equally plucky lady friend Florrie.
Trilby models for a painting titled 'The Pitcher Goes To The Well', in George du Maurier's novel Trilby, before she falls under the mesmerising powers of the original Svengali and is transformed into the nineteenth-century equivalent of an X Factor finalist.
The Integrated Circuit or microchip was the invention of Jack Kilby. Some time in the 1970s, Gordon Moore noted that integrated circuits were growing ever more complex at such a rapid rate that the number of transistors on each chip - and, as a result, its computing capacity - could be expected to double about ever two years. Computer processing power has largely followed Moore's Law - mostly because the IC industry uses the double-every-two-years metric as its benchmark.