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and "Westward ho!" to show their destination. [1] [2] "Ho!" is an interjection or a call to attract passengers, without a specific meaning besides "hey!" or "come!" [3] The title is also a nod towards the play Westward Ho!, written by John Webster and Thomas Dekker in 1604, which satirised the perils of the westward expansion of London. [1]
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Westward Ho! is a seaside village near Bideford in Devon, England. The A39 road provides access from the towns of Barnstaple , Bideford , and Bude . It lies at the south end of Northam Burrows and faces westward into Bideford Bay , opposite Saunton Sands and Braunton Burrows .
Westward Ho (or Ho!, or Hoe) is an early Jacobean-era stage play, a satire and city comedy by Thomas Dekker and John Webster that was first performed circa 1604. It had an unusual impact in that it inspired Ben Jonson, George Chapman and John Marston to respond to it by writing Eastward Ho, the famously controversial 1605 play that landed ...
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (also known as Westward Ho) is a 20-by-30-foot (6.1 m × 9.1 m) painted mural displayed behind the western staircase of the House of Representatives chamber in the United States Capitol Building.
Kingsley School, a private school in Bideford, the town in which Westward Ho! is set, took its name from him after it was founded in 2009 as a merger of Edgehill College and Grenville College. In 1905, the composer Cyril Rootham wrote a musical setting of Kingsley's poem Andromeda. This was performed at the Bristol Music Festival in 1908.
"Worstward Ho" is a work of prose by Samuel Beckett. Its title is a parody of Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho!. Written in English in 1983, it is the penultimate novella by Beckett. In 2001 a water artwork has been installed by Job Koelewijn in the Westersingel, Rotterdam titled Formule B.
In 1860, Leutze was commissioned by the U.S. Congress to decorate a stairway in the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, for which he painted a large composition, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, which is also commonly known as Westward Ho!. Late in life, he became a member of the National Academy of Design.