History Quiz!

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

I'm looking for the final outcome , not the initial judgement

i just made an obvious guess - was it half right?

outcome = lawsuit.....?


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wasingtons law of 1790?

or

'' 560 ruling against the Irish monk Columcille is widely accepted as one of the oldest recorded legal proceedings establishing a principle of copyright. In this article I examine this ancient Irish story, place it in the context of Irish society and law of its time and attempt to identify its relevance in our contemporary context. Specifically I examine the manner in which the ability to restrict reproduction of materials through the controls provided by copyright is used by groups and movements to assist the orderly expansion of their cultural message.''

wtf for the 2nd one btw - can anyone confirm that? i just got it off random site through google so not fact obviously, or not?

tcn?

that was an interesting post

i only used google so i could qoute that piece - as it was an obvious guess there was a court case


i have no question to post - i only posted to keep this thread afloat.....


again - what is tcn??

agincourt?

only battle i know that gives me images of knights........ that and the battle of hattin

pablomakaveli wrote: »

Im not really sure but i'll have a guess.

Maybe the battle at Acre.

Or possibly the battle between the Teutonic knights and the Poles. Cant remember the location of that though. Something like Mattenburg. I don't want to use google so they're my best guesses.

ding ding ding

we have a winner

battle of tannenburg
aka
battle of gunwald

Manach wrote: »

With respect to Pablomakaveli it looks his question will remain forever unanswered.

Had to go back to find the original Q (keeping with the templars, name both the first and last grand masters of the Templars.) - it’s a trick question as all sorts of conspiracy theories abound. In the early 1300’s the Pope suppressed the Order and Philip IV of France had its last ‘official’ Grand Master, Jacques de Molai, burned at the stake on the Isle St Louis (there is a plaque on the Pont Neuf detailing the event). The pair who wrote the Holy Blood/Holy Grail book wrote another about the Templars maintaining after suppression they moved to Scotland with their treasure and linked them with the birth of the Freemasons. So apparently there remains a GM.....

OK, 36 hours and several hundred hits without a name.
The answer is
Henry Pelham (1748-1806), born Boston, son of Peter Pelham and Mary Copley (nee Singleton of Quinville Abbey, Co. Clare).
His etching of the ‘Boston Massacre’ was plagiarised by his friend Paul Revere (yes, that one) who rushed into print before Pelham, who wrote it was “one of the most dishonorable Actions you could well be guilty of…….[deprived me] as truly as if you had plundered me on the highway“ Revere’s underhand action is played down in American history, as he was ‘American’ and Pelham generally is viewed a Royalist.

Pelham was a noted miniaturist, many subjects being connections of the O’Brien (Inchiquin) family.

Pelham at age of about 16 is the subject in ‘Boy with a squirrel’ painted by his half-brother John Singleton Copley.

Pelham was a friend of Vallancy and other notables in antiquarian circles, and sketched/recorded ruins/ogham stones, etc. around Ireland. His engravings were used to illustrate Ferrar’s ‘History of Limerick’ and Francis Grose’s ‘Antiquities of Ireland’.

His map “A Plan of Boston in New England with its Environs” was published June 1777 is considered to be one of the most beautiful maps of Boston ever produced.
His Grand Jury map of Limerick is monumental, in scope of work and size, on a scale of 1 1/8” to 1 English mile, broken down into 12 separate sheets, each measuring approximately one metre by half a metre.

He was Agent for Lord Lansdowne’s Kerry estate during which time he laid out the town plan for Kenmare. After leaving Lansdowne he worked for the War Office, supervising the building of Martello towers in Bantry Bay. He either drowned or died of a heart attack in a boat on Bantry Bay and his body was brought back to Kenmare for burial.