Sentences with phrase «spanish armada»

Additionally, one of the most amusing / ridiculous comments (Jamie @ 23) wondered if the Spanish Armada had contributed to Global Warming.

It froze Viking colonists in Greenland, accelerated the Black Death in Europe, decimated the Spanish Armada, and helped trigger the French Revolution.

A glance at today's wind global map shows Britain circumvallated by a 360 degree wall of wind fit to scatter the Spanish Armada, or with better timing, to sail round Britain without touching the tiller.

Part of the National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland (MAGNI), the Ulster Museum is located in the Botanical Gardens in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and features exhibits from its collections of Fine and Applied Art, Archaeology, Ethnography, Industrial Archaeology, Local History, Botany, Zoology and Geology, as well as artworks and artifacts salvaged from the Spanish Armada.

Wysing's Grade II Listed farmhouse, which was built in the early 17th century reputedly from timbers of ships salvaged from the sinking of the Spanish Armada in 1588, has hosted many hundreds of artists since the organisation was founded twenty five years ago.The farmhouse is where artists live, sleep and eat, and where together they discuss the works that they are developing during residencies and retreats.

Battles include the Spanish Armada conquest inPlayers can challenge others from all over the world via multiplayer battles using a wireless connection as they command their worms through clashes that take place in famous battles of the past, as well as fictional fights of the future.

Sitting on a rocky promontory surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, this port was the base for the Spanish Armada — it was offshore from Cabo Trafalgar that Nelson defeated the Spanish - French fleet.

Just half a mile away is Plymouth Hoe, from which Sir Francis Drake sailed to defeat the Spanish Armada.

Irish folklore tells that in 1588, a dog swam to the Ireland shore from a sinking ship after defeat of the Spanish Armada.

In the book, «The West Highland White Terrier» by D. Mary Dennis and Catherine Owen, research found that ships of the Spanish Armada, wrecked off the Western Isles» had carried small white dogs to catch rats.

Another version identifies the ship as one of those in the Spanish Armada.

While there had been a settlement at the location since prehistory, the city we see today was in a large part founded by Sir Arthur Chichester, who had captained a ship against the Spanish Armada and sailed with Sir Francis Drake.

And there's Drake as well, the great Elizabethan sea captain who stopped the Spanish Armada.

For me, she picked Queen Elizabeth & the Spanish Armada and Mary, Queen of Scots.

Old publishing is the Spanish Armada.

Lee skips around from the Spanish Armada to...

Lesson focuses on the Spanish Armada and why England won.

A full lesson on the invasion of the Spanish Armada in 1588, this lesson is for KS3 students and includes a group role play task for students and a...

Assessment materials for a KS3 assessment on why the Spanish Armada was defeated.

This Tarsia puzzle covers the theme of the Spanish Armada.

Students are given a range of 1 mark knowledge questions on dates / names / events / definitions associated with the Tudors, English Reformation and the Spanish Armada.

The Elizabethan era is a cloak for World War II moralizing, with the Spanish armada standing in for Hitler's quest for world power, and Elizabeth I as a Churchill - style orator calling all good free men into action against the powers of evil.

There, he is purchased by the beautiful niece (de Havilland's Arabella) of a vicious plantation owner (Lionel Atwill's Col. Bishop), but during an attack on the colony by a Spanish armada, Blood takes to the ocean aboard a stolen army vessel.

The Sea Hawk — Director Michael Curtiz and star Errol Flynn followed up their great Adventures Of Robin Hood in 1940 with this mediocre swashbuckling film about an English privateer commissioned by Elizabeth I to harass Claude Rains and his Spanish Armada.

: We are to believe, based on the Queen's prayers, that God shifted the actual wind that caused the Spanish Armada to be defeated.

The film opens in 1585, three years before the Spanish Armada sets sail, but concerns itself as much with Elizabeth's life at court as it does with her foreign policy.

And this is odd considering that the period in question offered three of Elizabeth's greatest challenges: the threat of invasion by the Spanish Armada, the threat of usurpation by the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots (Samantha Morton wondrously high - strung), and the carnal temptations of the dashing Walter Raleigh.

But the film takes a nosedive into overbaked melodramatics when it dusts off the history books and veers in all directions to tell its crooked tale (blurring fact and fiction) of the iron - clad will of the strong monarch (voicing that the good fight was for God and country) and how she defeated the Spanish Armada and brought a long and fruitful time of peace and prosperity to her country.

After the Spanish Armada's crushing defeat — told in a rushed and choppy montage where everyone seems to die but the white horse that jumps from a burning ship — Elizabeth's reign should adopt a fairy tale ending.

The Spanish Armada is ready.

While the first two - thirds of the film contain enough political intrigue that the audience will ignore any slight historical missteps, the final third, when Philip's armada is approaching the English shore, takes us into true Harlequin romance territory, and we are force - fed a cinematic version of Sir Walter Raleigh guiding an unmanned ship into the Spanish Armada before it gets anywhere near the English Channel.

However with the Spanish Armada bearing down on the country, the Queen has to put aside personal matters to deal with the danger.

Owen wants to help fix that, but then war comes along, and Elizabeth I's duty is to open up a can of whup - ass on the Spanish Armada, who are bound to save England from the Satanic influence of the Protestant Church.

The battle between the British navy and the Spanish Armada is particularly stunning especially as a victorious Elizabeth stands on a high bluff wind blowing looking into the horizon at a sea of burning Spanish ships.

Her ire is raised when it looks as if the famed Spanish Armada might defeat her beloved England.

Surprisingly, he also single - handedly defeated the Spanish Armada, here depicted as manned by cackling, black - clad pseudo-Arabs.

Looking pretty good for her 52 years, this Elizabeth also has her head turned by dashing explorer Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen doing his best Errol Flynn), a girlish pash she attempts to quell by fixing him up with a lady - in - waiting (fellow Aussie Abbie Cornish, grappling rather less successfully with the requisite English accent) while she waits for the Spanish Armada to sail up the Thames.

The highlight, of course, is the near invasion of England by the fabled Spanish Armada, and desperate defenses against it, leading up to Elizabeth's justly famous «Speech to the Troops at Tilbury.»

Elizabeth gets jealous when her lady - in - waiting Bess (Abbie Cornish) also falls for Sir Walter, decides to execute Mary, Queen of Scots (a shamefully underused Samantha Morton) and then must put her feelings aside when the Spanish Armada attacks.

Elizabeth's sea battle against the Spanish Armada — led by one very droll King Philip II (Jordi Molla)-- co-opts the movie with a CGI infused battle sequence made memorable for its insistence on the significance of a white horse consumed by the ocean's depths.

The threatening invasion of the mighty Spanish Armada is the dramatic centerpiece of the film, which provides plenty of outlets for Kapur's blood - and - thunder penchant, as does all the conniving intrigue going on in Elizabeth's court, replete with gory moments of torture presided over by Geoffrey Rush, happily reprising his role of Sir Francis Walsingham, ruthless advisor to the Queen.

As the title figure in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, dodging assassins, defending the Church of England against its enemies, and preparing to vanquish the Spanish Armada, Blanchett is an actress of typhoon strength.

Spanish Armada cannons, dating to 1588, discovered off Ireland.

On board of this ship belonging to the Spanish Armada, and the Sarmiento de Gamboa ship belonging to the CSIC, researchers studied for nine months (seven aboard the Hespérides and two aboard the Sarmiento) the impact of the global change on the ocean ecosystem and explored its biodiversity.

That telling resonates with a later yarn about ships from the Spanish Armada, wrecked on the shores of Ireland and the Scottish Orkney Islands in 1588, Bradley says: «Good - looking, dark - haired Spaniards washed ashore» and had children with Gaelic and Orkney Islands women, creating a strain of Black Irish with dark hair, eyes, and skin.

He put a hex on the Spanish armada, which is supposedly what caused the bad weather and the English victory.

Or let's say, for example, that you went backwards in time to when Queen Elizabeth's forces defeated the Spanish Armada.

@SJuan76 I was focused more on the military side of it (the Spanish Armada was no more) than the colony side of it, and the timing wasn't very exact.

It is this second leg, on the flood tide, that makes the France - England crossing «downhill,» for it carries the swimmer north for 5 1/2 hours and should leave him just southwest of the Goodwin Sands — a notorious graveyard studded with hulls and masts, including those of the Spanish Armada.

Shakespeare's play was mostly likely first performed in 1603, within living memory of the Battle of Lepanto (1571), in which the Catholic Spanish Armada defeated the Ottomans and prevented their influence from advancing through the Mediterranean into Europe.