Trivia

[Riki]

"Ride, Sally, ride, on your mystery ship."  *snicker*

I know the song has nothing to do with Sally Ride, but I always think of her when I hear the song

[YLGuy]

Yes & yes. Kristina, you are up.

[kristina]

Thank you, YLGuy, here is my question:

He was a poet, a painter and a printmaker.
Except for his few friends, he was not recognized during his lifetime.
He published his own poetry in his very own style of calligraphy & illumination
& he added some special paintings in his unmistakable style.

He was his own publisher and he also published his “visions”  in his individual poetry.

Throughout his life he was assisted by his wife Catherine whom he first taught to read and write.
She was also trained by him as his engraver for his books.
He believed in equal rights and him and his wife worked as a team.
His wife proved invaluable to him.
Not only did she help him to print his illuminated works
but she was also always on his side through his many misfortunes and depressions.

Many of his illuminated pages are framed and exhibited in the Tate Gallery in London
and some of his books are to be found in the special (members only) Art-Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

In 1949 a Price for Religious Art was established in his honour in Australia;
and in 1957 a memorial was put up in Westminster Abbey in memory of him and his wife.

Who is he?

[Henry P Snicklesnorter]

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[kristina]

Yes Henry, it is William Blake.

  I originally came to London to study his work more thoroughly...

Over to you, Henry.

[Henry P Snicklesnorter]

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[kristina]

I think there is a dispute between Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish explorers,

but perhaps the Dutch were there first because they had already established some trading with islands around Indonesia etc.

and early Dutch maps refer to Australia as “New Holland”. (They would, wouldn't they?)   

[Henry P Snicklesnorter]

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[kristina]

Mynheer Hendrik,     do you refer the Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog on the Eendracht who landed on what is called Dirk Hartog Island
and who left behind him a pewter plate (now in the Rijksmuseum) engraved with the date (1616) of his landing?

Or do you refer to Willem Janszoon on the Duijfken, who is claimed to have been there before Dirk Hartog ?

[Henry P Snicklesnorter]

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[kristina]

Thank you, Henry and many thanks for posting the article and photo of the Replica of the Duyfken (Duijfken).

Here is my question :

Which country has a national orchestra which is larger than the country's whole army ?

[galvo]

Kristina, I think that would have to be Monaco.

[kristina]

Good to hear from you galvo. 

Yes, you are right, the country is Monaco.


Over to you, galvo.

[kristina]

Hello, galvo 

[galvo]

And a big hello to you, kristina!

The Wright brothers first flight, in 1903, was witnessed by 5 people and a dog. What was the name of the dog?

[CebuShan]

Was it Orville's dog, Scipio?

[galvo]

Nope.

[Henry P Snicklesnorter]

Flyer?

[YLGuy]

Fido! 

[galvo]

No to you both.

[Henry P Snicklesnorter]

Bounce

[cariad]

Was the plane named after this dog? Cause Gwyn says the plane was named Kitty Hawk. (I thought that was the location! We're in an argument over this delightful question right now!)

So that's what I will guess - the dog was named Kitty Hawk.


Moments later....


OK, argument settled! Kitty Hawk was the town. Gwyn's British, we'll give him a pass on this.

Gwyn is pretty sure this guess will send galvo straight over the edge, but he's already been wrong once this morning, so I'll chance it! 

[galvo]

Galvo here. Clinging to the edge by his fingernails. A dog called Kitty Hawk!!!!

Henry to the rescue. BOUNCE it was.

Over to you, Henry.

[Henry P Snicklesnorter]

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[YLGuy]

IDK. For some reason I thought that seismographs were used originally to detect if other countries were doing nuclear bomb testing and they found that earthquakes registered on them.  Not too sure about that though. Before that I guess when the pictures fell off the walls you knew it was an earthquake.