Posted on 12/04/2006 12:22:50 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman
"Anyone know what this one means??
* On a five bar gate, stag hunters: 4"
I'm pretty sure that refers to people hunting stag on horseback who failed to make that jump. A five-bar gate would be pretty high.
"THIS one I get, and I think it's a hoot!"
That one I don't get.
Sounds like an apoplexy during a fit of pique. LOL!
Extreme cheerleading leads to brain embolism and death.
Ye means ter say thet 'e died more'n once't, of divers causations?
Or, does ye means his causation of mortification wast original, and in Ye GGG Catagorical?
She was crying her eyes out over a knight (broken heart??) and had a stroke.
And just what kind of funny uncles do they have in France?
The kind who leave their paper on your auntie's desk.
Oh, okay.
Looks simple after somebody explained it to me. Duh.
Loved it...and posted it to my blog...
re: Kindly English simply hanging counterfeiters, yes unless you were a woman, then you were burned alive. The last one was in the 1790s or so, mostly because she refused life transportation to His Majestie's plantations in Australia.
The English needed women prisoners to populate the new colony, so women under sentence of death were offered transportation instead. Apparently no one had been burned for a while and the threat wasn't credible, the lady in question hung tough and went to the stake. There was a bit less resistance to accepting transportation after that...
;')
http://shakespeare.about.com/od/studentresources/f/faqshowhedied.htm
"Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted."
http://www.onlineshakespeare.com/death.htm
A legend has grown up, based on a diary entry by a John Ward - a Stratford vicar. Ward wrote that "Shakspear Drayton and Ben Jhonson had a merry meeting and it seems drank too hard for Shakespear died of a feavour there contracted." This is difficult to believe as the diary entry was written fifty years after Shakespeare's death although as vicar, Ward would have listened to local gossip and knew Judith Shakespeare in her later years; whether this is based upon fact again is open to debate.
http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/life/death.html
The cause of his death is unknown. Some scholars have suggested that the signatures on his will indicate that he was already sick at the date of signing, March, 25, 1616. Shakespeare was buried on April 25, 1616 in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford, where he had been baptised just over 52 years earlier.
Ben Jonson's encomium to William Shakespeare
The First Folio | A.D. 1623 | Ben Jonson
Posted on 02/13/2006 12:46:35 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1577388/posts
[and now, the new version]
Shakespeare Died of Rare Cancer? (British Gallery Unveils Shakespeare Image)
Discovery Channel | March 1, 2006 | Rossella Lorenzi
Posted on 03/01/2006 4:39:20 PM EST by nickcarraway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1588026/posts
Also...Some scholars have suggested that the signatures on his will indicate that he was already sick at the date of signing
Does it not seem mighty coincidental that William Shakespeare's testament just happened to be referred to as a will?
I begin to see that a conspiracy really was at work, and may still be afoot! Of course, I'm more paranoid than Timon of Athens.
CALLLINGARTBELL isn't even spelled right by the moron who puts CALLINGARTBELL in the keywords of topics he or she doesn't like.
"Died of fright in an Exersise of ye traind bands"
Huh?...Too much Ozzie Osbourne.
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