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| 15 | Who are the Swilles | The first Swille was a slave trader, breeder and planter. The first Swille designed a castle like King Arthurs and did his business from it. After the first Swille died, a second son was born that carried on his legacy. Swille II, Rockland Swille, was a hero of the Battle of Buena Vista (mentioned later as an annotation). Finally, Swille III, Arthur Swille, was named after a group of the branch of the Circle of the Golden Dawn (Mentioned later as an annotation). Arthur Swille is powerful and obeys no nations laws. Arthur Swille is the main “villian” of this book and our protagonist was a slave that has escaped his plantation, but Swille is trying to find him and kill him after the protagonist published a poem about Swille. |
| 15 | Why is Master Swilles castle the same style as King Arthurs? | If this is in reference to Arthur Swille, he did not design the castle, but the first Swille did. Arthur Swille is Swille III. There is no information stating why Swilles castle is the same style as King Arthur’s, but one can guess that Swille idolizes King Arthur structured his castle based off of the “King of Knights”. |
| 15 | Why are there multiple King Arthur References on this page? | It can only be assumed that, as mentioned previously, Swille admired King Arthur and designed his castle after King Arthur’s. There is no mention of any other reason outside of the book. |
| 15 | What is Objet d’art? | An object of artistic worth or curiosity, especially a small object
“Men.” Men’s Designer Sunglasses, Men’s Shades – Bloomingdale’s, www.bloomingdales.com/shop/mens/sunglasses?id=1000068. |
| 16 | What is an Anglican Grand Design? | Anglicanism, one of the major branches of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation and a form of Christianity that includes features of both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism. Anglicanism is loosely organized in the Anglican Communion, a worldwide family of religious bodies that represents the offspring of the Church of England and recognizes the archbishop of Canterbury as its nominal head. It prizes traditional worship and structure but operates autonomously and flexibly in different locales. Although the Anglican Communion has a creed—the Thirty-nine Articles—it has been disposed to allow widely divergent interpretations. Thus, Anglicans see themselves as possessing a cluster of historic pieties and procedural loyalties but few firm rules. The Book of Common Prayer, a compilation of the church’s liturgical forms originally issued in 1549, represents the faith’s independence from Rome and remains the hallmark of Anglican identity. The prayer book derives from ancient English spirituality and embodies the uniqueness of Anglican Christianity.
St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Red Deer Tolpin, David, et al. “Design and Implementation of Probabilistic Programming Language Anglican.” [1608.05263] Design and Implementation of Probabilistic Programming Language Anglican, 30 Nov. 2016, arxiv.org/abs/1608.05263. |
| 16 | Information on the Battle of Buena Vista? | During the Mexican-American War, Mexican General Santa Anna surrounds the outnumbered forces of U.S. General Zachary Taylor at the Angostura Pass in Mexico and demands an immediate surrender. Taylor refused, allegedly replying, “Tell him to go to hell,” and early the next morning Santa Anna dispatched some 15,000 troops to move against the 5,000 Americans. The superior U.S. artillery was able to halt one of the two advancing Mexican divisions, while Jefferson Davis’ Mississippi riflemen led the defense of the extreme left flank against the other Mexican advance. By five o’clock in the afternoon, the Mexicans begin to withdraw.
The Mexican-American War began with a dispute over the U.S. government’s 1845 annexation of Texas. In January 1846, President James K. Polk, a strong advocate of westward expansion, ordered General Taylor to occupy disputed territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers. Mexican troops attacked Taylor’s forces, and in May 1846 Congress approved a declaration of war against Mexico. At Buena Vista in February 1847, and at Monterrey in September, Taylor proved a brilliant military commander, earning the nickname “Old Rough and Ready” while emerging from the war a national hero. He won the Whig presidential nomination in 1848 and defeated the Democratic candidate, Lewis Cass, in November. The other hero of the Battle of Buena Vista, Jefferson Davis, became secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce in 1853 and president of the Confederate States of America in 1861. “Battle of Buena Vista Begins.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-buena-vista-begins. |
| 16 | Circle of the Golden Dawn? | The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was an organization devoted to the study and practice of the occult, metaphysics, and paranormal activities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Known as a magical order, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was active in Great Britain and focused its practices on theurgy and spiritual development. Many present-day concepts of ritual and magic that are at the centre of contemporary traditions, such as Wicca and Thelema, were inspired by the Golden Dawn, which became one of the largest single influences on 20th-century Western occultism.
“What Is the Golden Dawn?” Crystal Inner Circle, 28 Aug. 2016, www.crystalinnercircle.com/what-is-the-golden-dawn/. |
| 17 | Who is the Snake Society? | In the Bible the snake represents the devil or sinful nature. If there is a snake in society then someone of sin is in their midst.
“where Adam and Eve are tempted by a serpent in the Garden of Eden and ultimately fall victim to sin. While the serpent is not expressly linked with Satan” It can be inferred that the “Snake Society” in this case, may be people who seem to have negativity and the devil upon them, people who try to corrupt others or are ungodly. “The Meaning of the Snake or Serpent as a Christian Symbol in the Bible.” Synonym, classroom.synonym.com/meaning-snake-serpent-christian-symbol-bible-5567.html. |
| 16 | What is a gay blade? | A dashing or lively man; a rake; (in later use also punningly) a homosexual man, especially a dashing or rakish one.Origin: Mid 18th century; earliest use found in John Lockman (1698–1771), author and translator.
Gay Blade | Definition of Gay Blade in English by Oxford Dictionaries.” Oxford Dictionaries | English, Oxford Dictionaries, en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gay_blade. |
| 16 | Hedonist Award? | A hedonist is someone who is“a person who believes that the pursuit of pleasure is the most important thing in life; a pleasure-seeker”
The award to the pleasure seeker would be whatever pleasures the pleasure seeker. “Hedonist.” Dictionary.com, Dictionary.com, www.dictionary.com/browse/hedonist. |
| 15 | Wasp’s Jerusalem? | The full version of the English poem is in 7 parts, each called a ‘Passus’, and this collection of verse contains most of it, though part of Passus II, with the legend of Veronica and the holy shroud is missing. A marvellous detail that does not appear to have been in the French chanson is the strange affliction of wasps in his head that Vespasian suffers, in addition to leprosy. The poem describes the afflictions of Titus and his father Vespasian with some relish:
…. Tytus of Rome … … had a maladye unmeke. In myddis his face His lipppe lay on a lompe. Lyvored on his cheke …His fader Vaspasiane ferly bytydde A byke of waspes bredde in his nose Hyved up in his hedde he hadde hem of thoghte And Vaspasiane is called by cause of his waspes “The Destruction of Jerusalem.” Medieval Manuscripts Blog, blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2015/09/the-destruction-of-jerusalem.html. |
| 15 | Merlin the Druid | Merlin is one of the most fascinating figures in the Welsh literature and the Arthurian legend. Merlin is a man of mystery and magic; contradiction and controversy surrounded his life.
Merlin wore many hats: he was a wizard or sorcerer, a prophet, a bard, an adviser and a tutor. He appeared as a young boy with no father. He appeared as an old, wise man, freely giving his wisdom to four successive British kings. He was dotting old fool, who couldn’t control his lust over beautiful women, who hold him in fear and contempt. He had even appeared as a madman after bloody battle, and had fled into the forest and learned how to talk to the animals, where he became known as the Wild Man of the Woods. Merlin was the last of the druid, the Celtic shaman, priest of nature, and keeper of knowledge, particularly of the arcane secrets. Joe, Jimmy. Merlin, www.timelessmyths.com/arthurian/merlin.html. |
| 15 | Alfonzo of the Kongo? | Afonso I, original name Mvemba a Nzinga, also called Nzinga Mbemba, also spelled Afonso I Mvemba a Nzinga(born c. 1460—died 1542), ruler of Kongo (historical kingdom in west-central Africa) and the first of a line of Portuguese vassal kings that lasted until the early 20th century. He is sometimes called “The Apostle of Kongo” for his role in making Kongo a Christian kingdom.
Nothing is known of his early life; most of what is known of his later life originates from a remarkable series of letters he wrote between 1509 and 1541 to various kings and government officials in Lisbon and Rome. He was the son of Nzinga a Nkuwu, the first Christian king of Kongo. In 1491 he and his father were baptized by Portuguese priests and assumed Christian names, Afonso I and João I, respectively. During his father’s reign as king, Afonso served under him in various roles—including in an administrative capacity in Kongo’s northeastern province of Nsundi, which he expanded in the late 1490s. Although he was removed from the Nsundi position c. 1500, he had been restored by the time his father died some years later. Upon his father’s death, Afonso’s supporters (including his mother) wanted him to ascend as Kongo’s new king and summoned him to Mbanza Kongo, the kingdom’s capital. He managed to defeat his half brother, Mpanzu a Kitima, in battle there and succeeded as king sometime between 1506 and 1509, becoming the sixth manikongo (king of the Kongo). During his reign, Afonso extended Kongo’s relations with Portugal, reaching an agreement (the Regimento, 1512) with Manuel I of Portugal by which the Kongo accepted Portuguese institutions, granted extraterritorial rights to Portuguese subjects, and supplied slaves to Portuguese traders. Afonso also rebuilt the kingdom’s capital using stone, expanded the kingdom to the south and east, and firmly established the Roman Catholic Churchin Kongo. Working with Portuguese priests and his son (Henrique Kinu a Mvemba, who was consecrated as bishop c. 1520), Afonso shaped the doctrine of Kongo’s version of Christianity. In 1526, upon discovering that Portuguese merchants were purchasing illegally enslaved persons and exporting them, Afonso established an administrative system to oversee the slave trade, which reached considerable proportions during his reign. He also sought, unsuccessfully, to restrict Portuguese activities to his kingdom alone. In the last years of his reign, the debate over who would succeed him led to considerable political maneuvering, including an assassination attempt on his life by several Portuguese. The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. “Afonso I.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 29 Nov. 2007, www.britannica.com/biography/Afonso-I-king-of-Kongo-kingdom. |
| 15 | Heathen Art? | Of or relating to people or nations that do not acknowledge the God of the Bible :of or relating to heathens, their religions, or their customs.
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“Heathen.” Dictionary.com, Dictionary.com, www.dictionary.com/browse/heathen.
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| 16 | Where was the Klinkwan? | Indian village of Klinkwan – modern natives, and totem poles of old Hydahs, Alaska.
“Indian Village of Klinkwan – Modern Natives, and Totem Poles of Old Hydahs, Alaska.” NYPL Digital Collections, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-2bf1-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
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| 16 | Saxons? | The Saxons were a Germanic tribe that originally occupied the region which today is the North Sea coast of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark. Their name is derived from the seax, a distinct knife popularly used by the tribe. One of the earliest historical records of this group that we know of comes from Roman writers dealing with the many troubles that affected the northern frontier of the Roman Empire during the second and third century CE. It is possible that under the “Saxons” label, these early Roman accounts also included other neighbouring Germanic groups in the regions such as the Angles, the Frisians, and the Jutes; all these groups spoke closely related West Germanic languages that in time would evolve into Old English.
Violatti, Cristian. “The Saxons.” Ancient History Encyclopedia, 14 Dec. 2014, www.ancient.eu/Saxons/. |
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| 16 | “Pined Away”? | To fail gradually in health or vitality from grief, regret, or longing
“Pine.” Dictionary.com, Dictionary.com, www.dictionary.com/browse/pined.
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| 17 | Bloomingdale Shades? | Brand of sunglasses
“Men.” Men’s Designer Sunglasses, Men’s Shades – Bloomingdale’s, www.bloomingdales.com/shop/mens/sunglasses?id=1000068.
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| 16 | Queen victoria flogged because of a copy of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”? | No background information on this. Mentioned in book purely to prove that Swille obeyed no nations law and did not support the message Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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