Summers Last Will and Testament
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Summers Last Will and Testament, a play by T.
Nashe, published 1600. It is framed by the jocular comments of Will Summers,
Henry VIII's jester (who died
c.1560), and is an allegorical pageant in which Summer, personified as a dying old man, decides to whom to leave his riches.
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Falmouth and Madrid maritime rescue co-ordination centres co-ordinate search and rescue for three yachtsmen off Cape Finisterre, Spain.
M2 Presswire; 4/7/2003; 555 words
; ...ordinate search and rescue for three yachtsmen off Cape Finisterre, Spain(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE...found to be about 60 nautical miles north west off Cape Finisterre, Spain. The Madrid Coastguard scrambled a helicopter...
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From Cape Wrath to Finisterre.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Geographical; 12/1/2005; ; 567 words
; From Cape Wrath to Finisterre by Bjorn Larsson Armchair Traveller, hb, pp341, 12.99...questions are your idea of a source of inspiration, then From Cape Wrath to Finisterre is for you. Anyone seeking something more substantial, or...
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Storms forecast as Spain sinks Finisterre
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/23/2001; ; 660 words
; ...Spain and Britain both referring to Finisterre but meaning different zones. The British version, off Cape Finisterre in north-west Spain, is much larger...adamant that they wanted to keep their Finisterre. We had no alternative. After all...
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Now for the shipping forecast. There are warnings of gales in Viking, Forties, Dogger and Fair Isle. And, on Monday, Finisterre will disappear completely
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/2/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...countries, the name is replacing Finisterre for the vast tranche of the...north-west tip of Spain. Finisterre itself, from the Latin finis...end of the earth, is a wild cape in Galicia (not to be confused...sea area of its own called Finisterre which only partially coincides...
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'Black Tide' Swamps Spain Coast
News Wire article from: AP Online; 11/21/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...sank Tuesday about 150 miles off Cape Finisterre _ which translates to Land...in the Noia estuary below Cabo Finisterre, raking cockles and clams into...Corcubion, six miles east of Finisterre, civil defense authorities deployed...
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Where the tarry fuel oil hits, it sticks; thousands attend protest demo
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...happen yet. This town near Cape Touranin was first hit two...storm down the coast off Cape Finisterre. This time, following the...ruptured Nov. 13 near Cape Finisterre, Spanish officials estimated...miles) off the coast of Cape Finisterre. Reconnaissance planes from...
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Bitter pill of losing and learning lesson
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 11/23/2007; 700+ words
; ...Atlantic. Around 100 miles from Finisterre the fleet were faced with their...for a waypoint off the infamous Cape Finisterre. He said: "We decided to keep...south." The night they rounded Finisterre Ifor and Alex were most certainly...
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Black Tide' Swamps Spain Coast
News Wire article from: AP Online; 11/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...sank Tuesday about 150 miles off Cape Finisterre _ which translates to Land...in the Noia estuary below Cabo Finisterre, raking cockles and clams into...Corcubion, six miles east of Finisterre, civil defense authorities deployed...
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Spaniards fear more 'black tide' Oil spill threatens new coasts as cost climbs to $42 mil.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...in the Noia estuary below Cabo Finisterre, raking cockles and clams into...sank Tuesday about 150 miles off Cape Finisterre, carrying most of its 20 million...Corcubion, six miles east of Finisterre, civil defense authorities deployed...
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The endless disaster: the breakup and sinking of the Prestige one year ago has become the worst oil-tanker disaster in history--far more costly than even that of the Exxon Valdez. And though her fate was predictable, the tale of her final seven days is more than strange.
Magazine article from: Esquire; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the shoulder of Spain, from Caion and Corme and Cape Finisterre--the petite cape whose name literally means the end of the earth...November swells twenty-seven miles off Cape Finisterre, out there beyond the horizon in the waves and...
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Cape Finisterre
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cape Finisterre [Lat. finis terrae =land's end], rocky promontory, extreme NW Spain, on the Atlantic coast of Galicia. Off the cape, the English won two naval battles against the French (1747, in the War of the Austrian Succession; 1805, in the Napoleonic Wars).
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Cape Finisterre, battles of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Cape Finisterre, battles of, 1747. The two encounters, in May and October 1747, were similar in character, since they arose from the Royal...
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Enumerated Commodities
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...to points in Europe south of Cape Finisterre for rice in 1730; sugar in 1739...Europe was forbidden north of Cape Finisterre and permitted south of that point...exported to any place south of Cape Finisterre and was not limited to Europe...
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George Brydges Rodney
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1779. In January 1780 he captured a Spanish convoy off Cape Finisterre and defeated Adm. Don Juan de Langara's 11 ships in the so-called Moonlight Battle, fought off Cape St. Vincent at night. These feats relieved Gibraltar...
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George Anson Anson, Baron
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...returned to England with a rich prize. He was raised to the peerage after his popular naval victory (1747) off Cape Finisterre. Appointed then as first lord of the admiralty, he assisted William Pitt, Lord Chatham, in reorganizing naval...
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