#English armada

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The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, set sail from Lisbon, on May 28, 1588, heading for the English Channel.

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[maypoleman1]

19th July

Spanish Armada

Source: BBC

It was on this day in 1588 that the Spanish Armada was sighted off Lizard Point. Launched by King Philip II at the instigation of the Pope to remove the recalcitrant and unapologetic Protestant Queen Elizabeth I from the English throne, the Spanish fleet was one of the largest, best armed and modern that had ever set sail for war. However a combination of bad weather, skilled seamanship by the English vessels and poor Spanish navigation did for the Armada. Many ships got hopelessly lost off the coasts of Ireland, Scotland and north west England and ran aground. The arrival of shipwrecked Spanish sailors in a foreign land has led to a number of fascinating rumours and tales. The present day Cumbrian sheep are rumoured to be descended from Iberian Herdwick sheep who swam ashore from a sinking vessel; dark haired and eyed northerners were said to be descended from stranded Spaniards, and on Orkney, dark complexioned men were known as “Don” in memory of their alleged Spanish ancestors.

Intriguingly a Spanish Armada shipwreck is held to be the origin of the famous Fair Isle Sweaters. The brightly clothed Spaniards escaping from the El Gran Grifon which ran aground on Fair Isle, between Orkney and Shetland, so impressed the locals that they incorporated the design of the sailors’ clothes into the design of their own knitted crew neck sweaters - a story so unlikely it may be true.

[saltingthecookingwine]

I love the idea that this actual physical item got chucked onboard a ship hurried out of Spain for the Armada. It traveled across the channel, got wrecked by a storm, and centuries later washed up off the southern shore of Ireland. Then some enterprising soul grabbed it off the rocks, figured it was something cool and showed it to someone else.

And now it’s in a museum. Perfect. Exactly the kind of history I love. Nobody looted anything, or colonized anyone

Mariner's Astrolabe, before 1588

The instrument was used to help determine the ship's latitude from the height of the Pole Star or of the sun. At night, the Pole Star was sighted directly through small pinholes in the two vanes mounted on the pivoting alidade or rule. The altitude in degrees was then read off from the scale on the outer edge of the instrument. To measure the Sun's position during the day, the astrolabe was held below the waist and the alidade was adjusted so that a beam of sunlight passed through the top pinhole onto the bottom one.

This example was found in 1845 under a rock on Valentia Island, close to the point off southern Ireland where three ships of the Spanish Armada were wrecked in 1588. The throne is low and moulded. The mater has been made from a single casting, cut out in a wheel shape with a greater weight left in the lower half to help the instrument hang vertically. The face of the mater is engraved with circles and decorative lines but there are no numbers on the scale, suggesting that the instrument was never completed - perhaps it was one of a number of pieces of unfinished equipment hurried aboard a Spanish vessel in 1588. An alidade is fitted to the face of the instrument and held in place with a pin through its centre, about which it can rotate.

[liberty1776]

Armada: The Untold Story - Full Episode | BBC Select

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Second Lieutenant Walter Sidlowski kneels over the blanket covered body of an American soldier he had just helped rescue from the surf off Omaha Beach. Exhausted, Sidlowski appears motionless. His dripping wet uniform hugged by an inflated life belt, his face tortured and staring as though he is looking at someone but can’t find the words to speak.

Behind him the scene carries on, other men work to treat those that were saved while waves churn the waters of the English Channel beneath a vast invasion armada. Yet Sidlowski is still, caught in the moment by US Army Signal Corps photographer Walter Rosenblum in one of the most famous images of D-Day.

This image quickly became one of the most iconic of D-Day, used and reproduced by the thousands to represent the titanic struggle that started on the beaches of Northern France on June 6. The only complication to this representation is this photo was taken on June 7, D+1.

(Photo by: Walter Rosenblum/USA)

[greekmythcomix]

How I teach the Iliad in highschool:

I’ve taught the Iliad for over a decade, I’m literally a teacher, and I can even spell ‘Iliad’, and yet my first instinct when reading someone’s opinions about it is not to drop a comment explaining what it is, who ‘wrote’ it, and what that person’s intention truly was.

Agh. <the state of Twitter>

The first thing I do when I am teaching the Iliad is talk about what we know, what we think we know, and what we don’t know about Homer:

We know -

- 0

We think we know -

- the name Homer is a person, possibly male, possibly blind, possibly from Ionia, c.8th/9th C BCE.

- composed the Iliad and Odyssey and Hymns

We don’t know -

- if ‘Homer’ was a real person or a word meaning singer/teller of these stories

- which poem came first

- whether the more historical-sounding events of these stories actually happened, though there is evidence for a similar, much shorter, siege at Troy.

And then I get out a timeline, with suggested dates for the ‘Trojan war’ and Iliad and Odyssey’s estimated composition date and point out the 500ish years between those dates. And then I ask my class to name an event that happened 500 years ago.

They normally can’t or they say ‘Camelot’, because my students are 13-15yo and I’ve sprung this on them. Then I point out the Spanish Armada and Qu. Elizabeth I and Shakespeare were around then. And then I ask how they know about these things, and we talk about historical record.

And how if you don’t have historical record to know the past, you’re relying on shared memory, and how that’s communicated through oral tradition, and how oral tradition can serve a second purpose of entertainment, and how entertainment needs exciting characteristics.

And we list the features of the epic poems of the Iliad and Odyssey: gods, monsters, heroes, massive wars, duels to the death, detailed descriptions of what armour everyone is wearing as they put it on. (Kind of like a Marvel movie in fact.)

And then we look at how long the poems are and think about how they might have been communicated: over several days, when people would have had time to listen, so at a long festival perhaps, when they’re not working. As a diversion.

And then I tell them my old and possibly a bit tortured simile of ‘The Pearl of Myth’:

(Here’s a video of The Pearl of Myth with me talking it through in a calming voice: https://youtu.be/YEqFIibMEyo?sub_confirmation=1

And after all that, I hand a student at the front a secret sentence written on a piece of paper, and ask them to whisper it to the person next to them, and for that person to whisper it to the next, and so on. You’ve all played that game.

And of course the sentence is always rather different at the end than it was at the start, especially if it had Proper nouns in it (which tend to come out mangled). And someone’s often purposely changed it, ‘to be funny’.

And we talk about how this is a very loose metaphor for how stories and memory can change over time, and even historical record if it’s not copied correctly (I used to sidebar them about how and why Boudicca used to be known as ‘Boadicea’ but they just know the former now, because Horrible Histories exists and is awesome)

And after all that, I remind them that what we’re about to read has been translated from Ancient Greek, which was not exactly the language it was first written down in, and now we’re reading it in English.

And that’s how my teenaged students know NOT TO TAKE THE ILIAD AS FACT.

(And then we read the Iliad)

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Armada JetOp part 1 (English version.)

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Second Lieutenant Walter Sidlowski kneels over the blanket covered body of an American soldier he had just helped rescue from the surf off Omaha Beach. Exhausted, Sidlowski appears motionless. His dripping wet uniform hugged by an inflated life belt, his face tortured and staring as though he is looking at someone but can’t find the words to speak.

Behind him the scene carries on, other men work to treat those that were saved while waves churn the waters of the English Channel beneath a vast invasion armada. Yet Sidlowski is still, caught in the moment by US Army Signal Corps photographer Walter Rosenblum in one of the most famous images of D-Day.

This image quickly became one of the most iconic of D-Day, used and reproduced by the thousands to represent the titanic struggle that started on the beaches of Northern France on June 6. The only complication to this representation is this photo was taken on June 7, D+1.

(Photo by: Walter Rosenblum/USA)

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[uluthrek]

being a native german speaker on a predominantly english site is barbaric because i have to express myself in a language ten times less specifically mean (born to arschgeige forced to cunt) than my native tongue EXCEPT for two sundays a year when i can talken about the münsteraner tatort in ekelhaftestem denglisch and no one can mich aufhalten because i am surrounded by an armada of deutsche tumblrinas zwischen sechzehn und vierunddreißig who think the arschloch gerichtsmediziner and the depressed cop / tiny chronically correct woman, depending on who you ask, should fuck nasty. and that‘s strangely freeing.