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Unicorn Week – Christs’ White Horse
The Golden Legend is a collection of parables published in the 13th Century by James of Viraggio, Archbishop of Genoa, though believed to be an adaptation of a Buddhist parable in India, wherein a preacher named Barlaam was revered as a Christian saint, some believe the unicorn tale to represent an Indian rhino though through…
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Unicorn Week – Jesus! Its A Horse!
Around the 3rd Century BC, one King Ptolemy II of Egypt enlisted the help of seventy or seventy two scholars (sources vary on the exact amount) of Jewish descent to produce a Greek translation of the Old Testament, funnily enough, the word unicorn came into the bible quite by accident, of translation that is. Now…
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Unicorn Week – God’s Ponies
The King James Bible Has Seven References To Unicorns God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn Numbers 23:22, 24:8 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to…
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Unicorn Week – It’s Alive!
In the province of Agaus [ in Ethiopia ] has been seen the Unicorn, that beast so much talked of and so little known; the prodigious Swiftness with which this creature runs from one Wood into another has given me no opportunity of examining it particularly, yet i have had so near a sight of…
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Unicorn Week – To Horn or Not To Horn?
Martin Frobisher presented his Narwhal tusk to Queen Elizabeth I in 1577 who had stumbled upon it in his own strait no less, Frobisher’s Strait that is, where I here you ask? Canada Eh. This Narwhal tusk would soon enter the Crown Jewels as the Horn Of Windsor. Did Frobisher know what a Narwhal was?…
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Unicorn Week – ‘It’s For Medicinal Purposes, Doc’
‘Twas the Century of The Sixteenth, the place – Zurich, having received the wisdom of the ancients about the precious horn of unicorn, Dr. Conrad Gesner writes – This horn is useful and beneficial against epilepsy, pestilential fever, rabies, proliferation and infection of other animals and vermin, and against worms within the body from which…
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UW – A Mythical Beast
O this is the creature that has never been. They never knew it, yet none the less It’s motion, its bearing and slender neck. Crowned by the gleam of its still gaze – they loved it. Indeed it never ‘was’. Yet because they loved it A pure creature was born. They always left room. And…
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Copernicus – A Brief Look
Born Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543) was a Polish astronomer who first presented the idea that the planets revolve around the sun, not earth, as was the belief of the time. There is ample information on this individual and I would be selling him short referring to him being an astronomer. As he is so…
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Johannes Kepler
Kepler achieved much in his lifetime, from theories on geometry, astrology and cosmology, to making progress in such areas as science and mathematics, optics, the discovery of two new polyhedra, work on the golden ratio and theories on the packing of spheres. Kepler is mostly remembered for his three laws of planetary motion but he…
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Blenkinsop (The Fat)
Have you ever found a book from your childhood that made you laugh? I unfortunately came across one such item, and it had so many bad jokes, this was a poem that for some reason used to make my child brain convulse with laughter. I warn you, it is very stupid. Just thought I would…
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