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"Middle Passage" follows the transatlantic slave trade and is focused on the events surrounding the mutiny on La Amistad in July 1839. [3] Hayden sought to redefine African-American history through his poem. [4] [5] The original version of the poem has some typographical errors and mistakes in how it was set. In revising the poem, Hayden made ...
A jester, also known as joker, court jester, or fool, was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during royal court.Jesters were also traveling performers who entertained common folk at fairs and town markets, and the discipline continues into the modern day, where jesters perform at historical-themed events.
Middle Passage (1990) is a historical novel by American writer Charles R. Johnson about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship on the Middle Passage.Set in 1830, it presents a personal and historical perspective of the illegal slave trade in the United States, telling the story of Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave who sneaks aboard a slave ship bound for Africa in order to escape a ...
Henry the Eighth and His Family (1545) – the man at the far right is the jester Will Somers, and it has been suggested that the woman at the far left is the jester Jane Foole. Sommers is believed to be portrayed in a painting of Henry VIII and family at the Palace of Whitehall. It was completed around 1544–45 by an unknown artist.
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
Jester – A.K.A. Sarah Hawkins in the game UT3, fitting her name by making jests about the opponent or teammates. Jester Zombie - a zombie jester from Plants vs. Zombies 2's Dark Ages, where they deflect physical projectiles from plants, such as peas, plasma balls, cabbage, etc. Jevil - A secret boss of the first chapter of the video game ...
Archibald "Archy" Armstrong (died March 1672) was a native of Cumberland, and according to tradition first distinguished himself as a sheep thief; afterwards he entered the service of James VI and I as a court jester, with whom he became a favourite.
Two examples of Pace's wit survive. Cardinal Allen relates in his An Apology for the English Seminaries (1581) that when the English government interdicted the circulation of catholic books in England, ‘madde J. Pace, meeting one day with M. Juel [i.e. John Jewel, bishop of Salisbury], saluted his lordship courtly, and said, "Now, my Lord, you may be at rest with these felowes, for you are ...