1601 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1601.

Events

January 6 – The Children of the Chapel give their first theatrical performance at the English Court since 1584. This year they stage the first production of Ben Jonson's The Poetaster.

January 21 – Tirso de Molina enters the monastery of San Antolín at Guadalajara, Spain.

February 7 – The Lord Chamberlain's Men stage a performance of Shakespeare's Richard II at the Globe Theatre in London. The performance is specially commissioned (at a 40-shilling bonus) by the plotters in the Earl of Essex's rebellion of the following day. The plotters hope that the play, depicting the overthrow of a reigning monarch, will influence the public mood in their favour. The plot fails.

February 17 – Actor Augustine Phillips, a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, is deposed by the Privy Council of England.

July – Lancelot Andrewes becomes Dean of Westminster.

Thomas Overbury meets Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, and they become firm friends.

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After an apprenticeship with a printer, Twain worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to the newspaper of his older brother, Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his singular lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1865, his humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", was published, based on a story he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, and was even translated into classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.

World

World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth or pertaining to anywhere on Earth.

In a philosophical context it may refer to:

the whole of the physical Universe, or

an ontological world (see world disclosure).

In a theological context, world usually refers to the material or the profane sphere, as opposed to the celestial, spiritual, transcendent or sacred. The "end of the world" refers to scenarios of the final end of human history, often in religious contexts.

World history is commonly understood as spanning the major geopolitical developments of about five millennia, from the first civilizations to the present.

World population is the sum of all human populations at any time; similarly, world economy is the sum of the economies of all societies (all countries), especially in the context of globalization. Terms like world championship, gross world product, world flags etc. also imply the sum or combination of all current-day sovereign states.

Secret society

A secret society is a club or organization whose activities, events, and inner functioning are concealed from non-members. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence agencies or guerrilla insurgencies, that hide their activities and memberships but maintain a public presence. The exact qualifications for labeling a group as a secret society are disputed, but definitions generally rely on the degree to which the organization insists on secrecy, and might involve the retention and transmission of secret knowledge, denial of membership or knowledge of the group, the creation of personal bonds between members of the organization, and the use of secret rites or rituals which solidify members of the group.

Anthropologically and historically, secret societies are deeply interlinked with the concept of the Männerbund, the all-male "warrior-band" or "warrior-society" of pre-modern cultures (see H. Schurtz, Alterklassen und Männerbünde, Berlin, 1902; A. Van Gennep, The Rites of Passage, Chicago, 1960).

Tom Sawyer

Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896).

Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, Huck and Tom Among the Indians, Schoolhouse Hill and Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy. While all three uncompleted works were posthumously published, only Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy has a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few chapters.

The fictional character's name may have been derived from a jolly and flamboyant fireman named Tom Sawyer with whom Twain was acquainted in San Francisco, California, while Twain was employed as a reporter at the San Francisco Call. Twain used to listen to Sawyer tell stories of his youth, "Sam, he would listen to these pranks of mine with great interest and he'd occasionally take 'em down in his notebook. One day he says to me: ‘I am going to put you between the covers of a book some of these days, Tom.’ ‘Go ahead, Sam,’ I said, ‘but don’t disgrace my name.’" Twain himself said the character sprang from three people, later identified as: John B. Briggs (who died in 1907), William Bowen (who died in 1893) and Twain; however Twain later changed his story saying Sawyer was fully formed solely from his imagination, but as Robert Graysmith says, "The great appropriator liked to pretend his characters sprang fully grown from his fertile mind."

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1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain - Intro

1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain - Intro

1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain - Intro
Introduction: . Free audiobook of Mark Twain's "1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors". Audio courtesy of Librivox. INTRODUCTION "Born irreverent," scrawled Mark Twain on a scratch pad, "--like all other people I have ever known or heard of--I am hoping to remain so while there are any reverent irreverences left to make fun of." --[Holograph manuscript of Samuel L. Clemens, in the collection of the F. J. Meine] Mark Twain was just as irreverent as he dared be, and 1601 reveals his richest expression of sovereign contempt for overstuffed language, genteel literature, and conventional idiocies. Later, when a magazine editor apostrophized, "O that we had a Rabelais!" Mark impishly and anonymously--submitted 1601; and that same editor, a praiser of Rabelais, scathingly abused it and the sender. In this episode, as in many others, Mark Twain, the "bad boy" of American literature, revealed his huge delight in blasting the shams of contemporary hypocrisy. Too, there was always the spirit of Tom Sawyer deviltry in Mark's make-up that prompted him, as he himself boasted, to see how much holy indignation he could stir up in the world. WHO WROTE 1601? The correct and complete title of 1601, as first issued, was: [Date, 1601.] 'Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors.' For many years after its anonymous first issue in 1880, its authorship was variously conjectured and widely disputed. In Boston, William T. Ball, one of the leading theatrical critics during the late 90's, asserted that it was originally written by an English actor (name not divulged) who gave it to him. Ball's original, it was said, looked like a newspaper strip in the way it was printed, and may indeed have been a proof pulled in some newspaper office. In St. Louis, William Marion Reedy, editor of the St. Louis Mirror, had seen this famous tour de force circulated in the early 80's in galley-proof form; he first learned from Eugene Field that it was from the pen of Mark Twain. "Many people," said Reedy, "thought the thing was done by Field and attributed, as a joke, to Mark Twain. Field had a perfect genius for that sort of thing, as many extant specimens attest, and for that sort of practical joke; but to my thinking the humor of the piece is too mellow--not hard and bright and bitter--to be Eugene Field's." Reedy's opinion hits off the fundamental difference between these two great humorists; one half suspects that Reedy was thinking of Field's French Crisis. But Twain first claimed his bantling from the fog of anonymity in 1906, in a letter addressed to Mr. Charles Orr, librarian of Case Library, Cleveland. Said Clemens, in the course of his letter, dated July 30, 1906, from Dublin, New Hampshire: "The title of the piece is 1601. The piece is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth's closet in that year, between the Queen, Ben Jonson, Beaumont, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Duchess of Bilgewater, and one or two others, and is not, as John Hay mistakenly supposes, a serious effort to bring back our literature and philosophy to the sober and chaste Elizabeth's time; if there is a decent word findable in it, it is because I overlooked it. I hasten to assure you that it is not printed in my published writings." TWITTING THE REV. JOSEPH TWICHELL The circumstances of how 1601 came to be written have since been officially revealed by Albert Bigelow Paine in 'Mark Twain, A Bibliography' (1912), and in the publication of Mark Twain's Notebook (1935). 1601 was written during the summer of 1876 when the Clemens family had retreated to Quarry Farm in Elmira County, New York. Here Mrs. Clemens enjoyed relief from social obligations, the children romped over the countryside, and Mark retired to his octagonal study, which, perched high on the hill, looked out upon the valley below. It was in the famous summer of 1876, too, that Mark was putting the finishing touches to Tom Sawyer. Before the close of the same year he had already begun work on 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', published in 1885. It is interesting to note the use of the title, the "Duke of Bilgewater," in Huck Finn when the "Duchess of Bilgewater" had already made her appearance in 1601. Sandwiched between his two great masterpieces, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, the writing of 1601 was indeed a strange interlude.
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Literatura - Quinhentismo - 2/2

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Plinius Secundus, The Historie of the World, 1601. Peter Harrington Rare Books.

Plinius Secundus, The Historie of the World, 1601. Peter Harrington Rare Books.

Plinius Secundus, The Historie of the World, 1601. Peter Harrington Rare Books.
PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius; Philemon Holland (trans.), The Historie of the World, Commonly called, the Naturall Historie ... the first [-second] tome, London: printed by Adam Islip, 1601. You can view this item on our website here: http://www.peterharrington.co.uk/rare-books/english-literature-pre-1900/the-historie-of-the-world/ Presented by Adam Douglas, Senior Rare Book Specialist at Peter Harrington. 2 volumes, folio (318 x 210 mm). Contemporary red morocco, spines richly gilt, black morocco labels, sides with gilt-ruled border and frame with gilt-stamped floral motifs at outer corners, gilt edges. Housed in a burgundy flat back cloth box by the Chelsea Bindery. Titles with woodcut allegorical device, woodcut head- and tailpieces, decorative initials, last leaf with errata on recto and colophon on verso. Bookplates of the notable book collector John Dunn Gardner (1811–1903; known as John Townshend until 1843 and sometimes styled “Earl of Leicester”); the monogram bookplate of “DHP”; bookplate of the lawyer, banker and bibliophile Robert S. Pirie (1934–2015), acquired by him from Seven Gables book shop. Front joints cracking at ends and with old superficial repairs, first headcap chipped, a few abrasions and small stains on covers, minor marginal soiling with an occasional marginal spot, light dampstain in fore-margins of vol. 2 slightly affecting text, lacking first blank leaf in each volume, remains a most attractive copy in contemporary red morocco. First edition in English, first issue, with the Islip imprint. Of this translation, Lowndes says “A work of immense labour, and what few men of his time could have executed in a superior manner to Dr Holland.” “This encyclopaedia of ancient knowledge about the natural world had already had a great indirect influence in England, as elsewhere in Europe, but had not been translated into English before, and would not be again for 250 years. Indeed, after four centuries, Holland is still the only translator of this work to attempt to evoke its literary richness and beauty” (ODNB). The work was used as a source by Shakespeare for Othello and King Lear. “The importance of Pliny lay not so much that he was an inexhaustible source for monsters, eclipses, and the stranger habits of all created things, but that in the pages of Philemon Holland’s translation Shakespeare found that emphasis on Nature which he employed and re-interpreted in the tragedy” (Evans, The Language of Shakespeare’s Plays). Plinius Secundus, The Historie of the World, 1601. Peter Harrington Rare Books. https://youtu.be/7OEBkCVfTNM
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A Day in the Life of a Literature PhD

A Day in the Life of a Literature PhD

A Day in the Life of a Literature PhD
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Literature Help 31: "Hamlet" Plot Summary

Literature Help 31: "Hamlet" Plot Summary

Literature Help 31: "Hamlet" Plot Summary
There is no doubt that "Hamlet" is one of the best tragedies written by William Shakespeare. The historical records indicate that the play was written sometime between 1599 and 1601. The story of the play is set in Denmark. The play is based on the most significant theme of revenge. Hamlet, the prince, wants to take revenge on his uncle Claudius for murdering his father, the old King Hamlet. Claudius ascends the throne after the murder of his brother, and he marries his brother's widow and young Hamlet's mother Gertrude. Hamlet's character is the expression of overwhelming grief to seething rage. Sometimes there is real madness and sometimes it is feigned. The most important themes are revenge, treachery, incest, and moral corruption. The exact date of its writing is not known, but the three different early versions of "Hamlet" have survived. These three versions are First, Second, and Third Quarto. Each of these versions has the lines and scenes which are missing from the others.
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English Literary HistoryPeriods

English Literary HistoryPeriods

English Literary HistoryPeriods
Literary History Timeline * Historical or non-English / American item ? B.C. — A. D. 428: Celtic and Roman Britain 428 — 1100: Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period c. 700 — Beowulf composed in present form *1066 — Battle of Hastings (Norman Conquest) *1215 — Signing of Magna Carta *c. 1307 — 1321 — Dante's Divina Commedia 1350 — 1500: Middle English Period c. 1387 — Chaucer, "Prologue" to Canterbury Tales *1492 — Columbus lands in America 1500 — 1660: The Renaissance (in England; 1607 - 1780 is considered the "Colonial" period in America) *1517 —Martin Luther posts his theses in Wittenberg, leading to Protestant Reformation *1532 — Machiavelli, The Prince 1539 — English Bible (the "Great Bible") published *1558 — 1603 — Reign of Queen Elizabeth I 1564 — 1616 — Life of William Shakespeare 1601 — Shakespeare's Hamlet *1605 — Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I *1607 — Settlement at Jamestown, Virginia 1611 — King James translation of the Bible *1620 — Pilgrims land at Plymouth *1640 — Bay Psalm Book: first book printed in America *1649 — Execution of Charles I *1649 — 1660 — Commonwealth Period–England ruled by Parliament 1660 — 1798: Neoclassical Period (also known as "The Long 18th Century") *1660 — Charles II restored to the throne ("The Restoration") 1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost *1687 — Sir Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica *1692 — Salem witchcraft executions 1719 — Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1726 — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels 1740 — Samuel Richardson, Pamela 1740-5 — The Great Awakening (religious revival) 1749 — Henry Fielding, Tom Jones *1751 — Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" 1755 - Ben Johnson, Dictionary 1760-67 — Lawrence Stern, Tristram Shandy 1765-1830 — Revolutionary and Early National Period *1770 — Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village" 1771 — Ben Franklin, Autobiography 1775-1783 — Revolutionary War 1776 —Declaration of Independence 1783-85 — Noah Webster, Grammatical Institute of the English Language (speller, grammar, reader) *1789 — French Revolution begins 1798-1832: Romantic Period 1798 — William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 1811 — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility 1817 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 1819 — Lord Byron, Don Juan I and II *1820 — The Missouri Compromise 1820 — Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe 1830 — Edgar Allan Poe, Poems 1832-1870: Early Victorian Age (English Literature) 1836 — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature 1836 — Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers 1837 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales 1842 — Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics; Lord Tennyson, Poems 1845 — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven 1847 — Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre 1847-8 — Thackeray, Vanity Fair 1849 — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield 1850 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese 1850 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter 1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick 1852 — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1854 — Henry David Thoreau, Walden 1855 — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 1859 — Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species 1860 — George Eliot, Mill on the Floss *1860-5 — American Civil War 1865-1914: Realistic Period (American Literature) 1867 — Karl Marx, Das Kapital 1868 — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women 1872 — George Eliot, Middlemarch 1874 — Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd 1876 — Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer 1879 — Henry James, Daisy Miller; * Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House 1883 — Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island 1884 — Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn 1891 — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles 1893 — George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession 1895 — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage 1900-1930: Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period (American Only) 1900 — Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie 1901-1910: Edwardian Period 1903 — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Jack London, The Call of the Wild 1905 — Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth 1907 — John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World 1913 — D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Willa Cather, O Pioneers! 1914-1918: First World War 1917 — T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1921- Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow 1922 - James Joyce, Ulysses; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land 1924 - E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Top 5 Mums in Literature! #BookBreak

Top 5 Mums in Literature! #BookBreak

Top 5 Mums in Literature! #BookBreak
Happy Mothers Day! Who are your favourite mums in literature? Let us know in the comments below! SUBSCRIBE for more bookish videos: http://tinyurl.com/pr47rpu Top 5 Mums and related books! The Moomins: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/macmillan-children-s-books/the-moomin-colouring-book Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/louisa-may-alcott/little-women-and-good-wives Room by Emma Donoghue: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/emma-donoghue/room Film Tie-In: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/emma-donoghue/room-film-tie-in The Help by Kathryn Stockett: http://www.bookdepository.com/The-Help-Kathryn-Stockett/9780241956533?ref=grid-view Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/helen-fielding/bridget-jones-s-diary What would you like to see on Book Break? Tweet me your suggestions with the hashtag #BookBreak PanMacmillan: https://twitter.com/panmacmillan Leena: https://twitter.com/leenanorms Got a suggestion for future #BookBreak episodes or questions? Perhaps you're a YouTuber who'd like to say hi! Email the Book Break team at: bookbreakuk@gmail.com Facts in this video sourced from: http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/11-facts-that-show-how-hard-moms-work#.qoAzA0jYM
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5 Weirdest Genres of Fiction — Weird Fiction Month

5 Weirdest Genres of Fiction — Weird Fiction Month

5 Weirdest Genres of Fiction — Weird Fiction Month
Subscribe! ➤ http://tinyurl.com/ho9cl6s Ready to feel simultaneously confused and inspired? Are you looking for someone to wring your creativity for every ounce of originality it can muster? Good. Because we know five different types of fiction that'll do that for you. Join us as we break down Steampunk, Fantastique, Slipstream, Bizarro, and Weird fiction. Let's get weird. Join the community for discussion and daily posts! Facebook ➤ http://www.facebook.com/TaleFoundry Twitter ➤ http://www.twitter.com/TheTaleFoundry Tumblr ➤ http://www.TaleFoundry.tumblr.com ▬▬▬▬ What is Tale Foundry? ▬▬▬▬ Welcome to Tale Foundry! The only place on Youtube (or perhaps the internet, if we want to be bold here) where you not only get to hear a new short story every month, but you get a look at all the ideas and inspiration that goes into them! Our real goal is to educate, inspire, and encourage you to share the stories in your head with the world. This is a place for storytellers, writers, and nerds who like to make stuff up. Share your ideas with us; give us feedback on our stories; let us know what inspires you! Anything creative is welcome. We look forward to seeing you around~ ▬▬▬▬ Daily Posts and Other Stuff ▬▬▬▬ •Something Interesting — Almost every day, we post an informational/inspirational blurb related to our monthly theme. You can see them on any of our social media sites, listed above. •Q&A; — You can ask Talebot and the Taleoids questions anonymously (or with your Tumblr account) here: http://talefoundry.tumblr.com/ask •Fan stories — Coming soon •Voting — Every other month we let the community choose which subject they want us to cover next by hosting a poll on our social media sites, listed above. We may also use these polls to ask for opinions and suggestions for upcoming stories, so keep an eye out! ▬▬▬▬ Past Themes ▬▬▬▬ Game of Thrones Month (April 2016) — https://goo.gl/I7uqeq Celtic Folklore Month (March 2016) — https://goo.gl/iaP1sy ▬▬▬▬ Friends and Affiliates ▬▬▬▬ Because Geek (Game of Thrones videos) — https://goo.gl/yIiLGK Red Team Review (Game of Thrones videos) — https://goo.gl/NMAFng ▬▬▬▬ Credit/Attributions ▬▬▬▬ The following resources were used fairly under Creative Commons: •Music: —“Ghost Piano,” by Namfoodle on Soundcloud.com —"Gone Beyond," "Sleep Away," and "Danse Morialta" by Kevin Macleod on Incompetech.com —“What Do You Mean it Started Up and Walked Away?” by ReadWryt on Soundcloud.com —“Fantasy Landscape,” by Federico Ferrandina on Soundcloud.com •Sounds —“Monster Sounds” by Kristoffer Sandstrom •Video Footage: —“Luminous Matter” by Andrew Fernandes —“Contemporal 2013” by Beatdown Boogie —"The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug" film trailer —"The Hunger Games" film trailer —"White Christmas" special from TV series "Black Mirror" —"American Horror Story," TV series "Freakshow" promotional content —"Videodrome" film (1989) •Research: —“Science Fiction: The Literature of Ideas”: http://www.writing-world.com/sf/sf.shtml —“Slipstream—Catscan 5,” essay by Bruce Sterling: https://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/Catscan_columns/catscan.05 —Slipstream essay: http://electricliterature.com/oh-slippery-slipstream-who-is-the-weirdest-genre-of-them-all/ —“What the Fuck is This All About?,” bizzaro fiction essay: http://mondobizarro.yuku.com/topic/968/What-the-Fuck-is-This-All-About#.V0YYqfkrKM8 •Wikipedia "Research": —https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fantasy#Development_of_fantasy —https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance —All relevant genres have self-named wikipedia pages
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Literature and Medicine

Literature and Medicine

Literature and Medicine
Healing has as much to do with the soul as the body. So how can the humanities be a support to our healthcare system—and to some of our most vulnerable patients, wounded veterans? Our answer has been to begin to bring the Literature & Medicine program to VA hospitals in California. This program helps caregivers and, ultimately, improves the quality of patient care. Hospital workers engage in deep, facilitated discussions about issues related to their work and their patients and revealed by poetry, personal narratives, fiction, and films. Since 2009, Cal Humanities has been working with VA hospitals—now in Fresno, Palo Alto, and Sacramento—to train staff and scholar-facilitators. Our involvement in Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care® is part of a national effort initiated by the Maine Humanities Council. Visit us at www.calhum.org. Filmed, directed and edited by Julia Maryanska Lighting by Audrey Wright Sound and music mix by Shane Allen Produced by Regan Douglass & Julia Maryanska Thanks to Cal Humanities program staff Vanessa Whang, Felicia Kelley, and Tonya Jones and to all those involved in the Lit & Med programs.
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Most Powerful Secret Societies In The World (Part 1)

Most Powerful Secret Societies In The World (Part 1)

Most Powerful Secret Societies In The World (Part 1)
7 Most Powerful Secret Societies In The World Throughout the ages, there have been many accusations and conspiracy theories relating to secret societies conducting their business in darkened back rooms and influencing worldwide culture, economy and politics. In this video, we share what we know of The Most Powerful Secret Societies In The World. The Rosicrucian Order The Rosicrucian (Rose and Cross) Order is believed to have emerged in the early 1600s after the publication of at least two critical documents, named Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis – or ‘The Fame of the Brotherhood of the Rose Cross’ – and Confessio Fraternitatis, or the Confession of the Brotherhood. The first document narrates the life of a mysterious alchemist who travelled to different parts of the world gathering secret knowledge. The second document tells of a secret brotherhood of alchemists prepared to change the political and religious face of Europe in the 17th century. The Rosicrucian group of alchemists also transformed the artistic, scientific and cultural landscape of the time. While shrouded in mystery to this day, allusions to the brotherhood in literature from the time imply the movement was based on the search for knowledge through alchemical experimentation. It’s said that Rosicrucianism contributed to the emergence of Freemasonry in later years and today, there are several Rosicrucian groups that claim to be direct descendants of the original order. It is also believed that Isaac Newton was a member of this secret organization. The Hashshashin The Hashshashin, or Nizari, were a mysterious band of Muslim assassins that operated in the Middle East during the 13th century. The group was made up of Shia Muslims who broke off from a bigger sect and banded together in order to establish a utopian Shi'ite state. Because their number was small, the group used guerrilla tactics in their battle against their enemies, including espionage, sabotage, and, most famously, political assassination. The Hashshashin would plant highly trained moles inside enemy strongholds, with instructions to only attack when the time was right. They were known for their extreme discretion in minimising civilian casualties, as well as their penchant for using stealth to intimidate their targets. As the story goes, enemy leaders would often wake in the morning to find a Hashshashin dagger lying on their pillow, along with a note saying “you are in our grip.” Their legend soon grew, and they became well known contract killers, supposedly performing jobs for the likes of King Richard the Lionheart. Around the time of their downfall, the library that contained all Nizari records was destroyed, so much of what is known about them today has taken on the status of myth. The most controversial legend centres around the group's use of drugs and other intoxicants– “Hashshashin” translates roughly as “Hashish user”–which some have said were employed by the members in battle. The term “Hashshashin” as it refers to the Nizari is the origin of the modern word “assassin.” The Bohemian Club The Bohemian Club has an Annual Summer Encampment, a two-week retreat for the rich and powerful that President Herbert Hoover once called 'the greatest party on Earth.' The club's famed annual gathering has been held for more than 100 years at the Bohemian Grove about 70 miles north of San Francisco. It draws in notables such as former President George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Dow Chemical Chairman Frank Popoff, as well as actors and other influential individuals. While the club was formed in 1872 by a group of San Francisco journalists, the male-only club now bars journalists from membership to protect the group's privacy. Membership is coveted, and people routinely wait 10 or 15 years before gaining admittance. There are currently about 2,700 members. The most powerful men in the country do their "networking" here. At these gatherings, men representing the government, military-industrial and financial sectors meet and make policy decisions. The Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bomb, was conceived in the Grove in 1942. Other decisions made at the Grove include who our presidential candidates will be. The Order of the Skull and Bones Originally known as the Brotherhood of Death, this Order is one of the oldest student secret societies in the United States. The Order was established at Yale University in 1832 and membership is open to an elite few. The society uses masonic-inspired rituals to this day. Members meet every Thursday and Sunday of each week in a building they call the “Tomb”... Produced by: https://www.toptruths.com https://www.advexon.tv Contact us: https://www.facebook.com/toptruths/ Playlists: TOP Educational: https://goo.gl/Te6pVF TOP 10: https://goo.gl/csRZMy TOP Cotroversial: https://goo.gl/8kzcBg TOP Science & Tech: https://goo.gl/R3Rthw TOP TRUTHS: https://goo.gl/Rikg2D

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Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency photographed the Rocky Mountains from his vantage point in low Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station. He shared the image with his social media followers on Jan. 9, 2017, writing, "the Rocky mountains are a step too high – even for the clouds to cross."

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If you could travel back in time 41,000 years to the last ice age, your compass would point south instead of north ... After a particularly large earthquake, the whole planet vibrates like a ringing bell, and measuring these oscillations in different places can tell us how the structure varies within the planet ... They also influence how the core cools, which alters the flow in the outer core....

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Indian Naval ships visit Jeddah

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Jeddah, May 16 (IANS) Three Indian warships, INS Mumbai, INS Trishul and INS Aditya, arrived at this Saudi Arabian port on Tuesday for a three-day visit, an Indian Nay statement said ... extensively with the Saudi Arabian Navy during their stay in the country, it said....

Indian Navy ships in Saudi Arabia to boost maritime ties

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“Gallery Walk-ins (unsolicited)”, is a collection of short stories written by 29-year old, Victor Komora, a Sierra Leonean based in the U.S.A. “Walk-ins” is his first book ... The book is now available in Sierra Leone at the PEN office on Campbell Street, Freetown ... Galley Walk-ins (unsolicited)” was reviewed ......

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Romania's GDP surges at 5.7 pct in first quarter, highest in EU

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BUCHAREST, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Romania's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded at an annual rate of 5.7 percent in the first quarter of 2017 compared with the same period of the previous year, said the National Institute of Statistics (INS) on Tuesday. The growth rate was the highest in the European Union (EU) countries, showed a release on the same ......

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Delhi: Cash, valuables stolen in two other break-ins near French diplomat’s house

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Two buildings, three break-ins with similar modus operandi but the similarities end here. The French diplomat’s house in south Delhi’s Shanti Niketan was not the only one that reported a break-in last week ... Were the burglars searching for anything specific on the night of May 5 at the diplomat’s house? Could the other two break-ins be a cover-up for what exactly happened inside the diplomat’s house?....

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Anti-Maduro protests persist in Venezuela, teenager dies in unrest

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Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro staged sit-ins and roadblocks across Venezuela Monday to press for elections, sparking new unrest and a death in the border state of Tachira ... ....

Anti-Maduro protesters block roads, stage sit-ins

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