Osborne House on the Isle of Wight was built in the 19th century as a summer retreat for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Osborne House is now open to the public. Queen Victoria died at Osborne House on 22 January 1901.
On July 31, 1880, Her Late Majesty signed the Adjacent Territories Order in the Council Room at Osborne House, Isle of Wight. The Order transferred the Arctic Archipelago from the UK to Canada. It is part of the Constitution of Canada.
The Canadian Arctic Archipelago is a group of over 36,000 islands in the Arctic Sea north of the Canadian mainland. On the northernmost island, Ellesmere Island, is the town of Alert, Nunavut. At 82°30’05" north latitude, Alert is the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world. Alert is named after HMS Alert, a British ship which wintered about 6 miles away in 1875–76. The ship’s captain, George Nares, and his crew were the first recorded people to reach the northern end of Ellesmere Island.
The world’s largest known island-in-a-lake-on-an-island-in-a-lake-on-an-island is located on Victoria Island in the Arctic Archipelago. About 4 acres in size, it is doubtful if the innermost island has ever been visited by humans, given its remote location and the difficulty in portaging a boat to it.
Taal’s Volcano Island has an island within a lake that is on an island within a lake that is on an island. Vulcan Point Island is within Main Crater Lake, which is on Volcano Island, which is within Taal Lake, which is on the main Philippine island of Luzon.
Main Crater Lake on Volcano Island is the largest lake on an island in a lake on an island in the world.
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There are several extinct volcanoes on Mars, four of which are vast shield volcanoes far bigger than any on Earth. They include Arsia Mons, Ascraeus Mons, Hecates Tholus, Olympus Mons, and Pavonis Mons. These volcanoes have been extinct for many millions of years, but the European Mars Express spacecraft has found evidence that volcanic activity may have occurred on Mars in the recent past as well.
Lassen Peak, some 240 miles NNE of San Francisco, is the southernmost active volcano in the Cascades. Its last major eruption was in May 1915. Lassen Peak is 550 miles south of Mount Saint Helens.
“Rhythm of the Rain” was a song that reached #3 on the US Hit Parade in 1962, and #1 in several other countries, recorded by The Cascades, who consisted of US Navy personnel from the USS Jason out of San Diego.
The original Jason lost his sandal while crossing a stream en route to games put on by King Pelias. When he arrived there, wearing only one sandal, King Pelias realized that Jason was his nephew and the rightful king, because an oracle had told him to beware of a man with one sandal. To try to get rid of Jason, Pelias sent him on the quest for the Golden Fleece.
The “First Thanksgiving” was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in 1621. This feast lasted three days, and — as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow — it was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims. The New England colonists, subjects to the King, were accustomed to regularly celebrating “thanksgivings” — days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as a military victory or the end of a drought.
There was turkey there, at that First Thanksgiving.
Two colonists gave personal accounts of the 1621 feast in Plymouth. The Pilgrims, most of whom were Separatists (English Dissenters), are not to be confused with Puritans, who established their own Massachusetts Bay Colony on the Shawmut Peninsula (current day Boston) in 1630. Both groups were strict Calvinists, but differed in their views regarding the Church of England. Puritans wished to remain in the Anglican Church and reform it, while the Pilgrims wanted complete separation from the church.
William Bradford, in Of Plymouth Plantation wrote:
Where I live in Walnut Creek CA there are many wild turkeys. A group of them once followed my son and myself for four holes on a golf course. I have lived in ND, MA, IL, and SoCal, and never seen wild turkeys before arriving in the NoCal Bay Area in 2009.
When the Guinea Hen was first imported into Europe, it was brought from Turkey, so was commonly called the Turkey Hen. Whe Europeans came to the Americas, nearly all birds encountered were new and unknown species, so the settlers often just named them after a similar bird they already knew, hence the name “Turkey” for the large American wild bird that we still know by that name. The names of the Ameriican robin, blackbird and sparrow also arose from the same similarity to European birds of similar characteristics.
Wild turkeys can fly 55 miles per hour, and run 25 miles per hour. Also, at the first Thanksgiving feast in 1621, the pilgrims did not serve pumpkin pie. Rather, they made stewed pumpkin.
There are only two references to the first Thanksgiving in written record. The first is by William Bradford (an ancestor of mine), who was the author of “Plimouth Plantation”:
The second was written in a letter by Edward Winslow:
According to English sources, Massasoit prevented the failure of Plymouth Colony and the almost certain starvation that the Pilgrims faced during the earliest years of the colony’s establishment.
Massasoit Sachem maintained good relations with the English until his death at a very advanced age for the time. His son Wamsutta took over, and when he died, Metacom (named Philip by the English) became the leader. He waged what is now known as King Philip’s War against the English after (surprise!) encroachment on their lands by settlers and broken treaty terms.
In (American) football, encroachment and offsides are not the same. Encroachment is when a defensive player crosses the line of scrimmage and touches an offensive player before the ball is snapped. Offsides is when the defensive player is across the line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped.
Encroachment is also when the defender illegally has a clear path to the QB, even if they haven’t made contact with an offensive player.
In the cartoon Pinky and the Brain, the Brain impersonated Jacques Cousteau while in a submarine by saying, “Even here, we see signs of Man’s encroachment.” He is believed.
On September 13, 1848, an explosion drove an iron rod through the head of railroad foreman Phineas Gage, making him a widely studied case of personality change after brain injury. The event and aftermath are still referred to as “the American Crowbar Case.”