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The "threescore years and ten" of the poem allude to Psalms 90:10, "The days of our years are threescore years and ten". Other verbal and thematic sources of the poem have been suggested in lines from Shakespeare's The Tempest , Marlowe's The Jew of Malta , Andrew Lang 's "The Last Maying", Robert Louis Stevenson's Underwoods , and Robert ...
The rhyme was not recorded until the nineteenth century, but the reference to Cantelon in the Scottish version has led some to conclude that it refers to Caledon in the time of the Crusades. [4]
It is well known for its reference in verse 10 to human life expectancy being 70 or 80 ("threescore years and ten", or "if by reason of strength ... fourscore years", in the King James Version): it is believed that this verse was the influence for the opening words of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. [3]
The Number of the Beast in the King James Bible is rendered "Six hundred threescore and six". Also in The Book of Common Prayer, Psalm 90 as used in the Burial Service—"The days of our age are threescore years and ten; ...." 25: a pony is a bet of £25 in British betting slang.
Three Score and Ten: A Voice to the People is a multi-CD box set album issued by Topic Records in 2009 to celebrate 70 years as an independent British record label.. The album consists of a hardback book containing the seven CDs and a paper insert detailing the Topic release list, complemented by a card insert to balance the release list.
Lanning’s victim, the 11-year-old girl, told Miami-Dade police that Lanning often took naked photographs of her in different positions, according to a police report. She also said Lanning sent ...
Allen C. Guelzo, director of Civil War-era studies at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg [28] and others have suggested that Lincoln's phrase, "four score and seven", was an indirect reference to the King James Version of the Bible Psalms 90:10 in which man's lifespan is described as "threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be ...
Kendrick Lamar’s 13-minute halftime set leaned heavily on the past year, with half of the songs in his 10-song set coming from his 2024 album “GNX.” ... Cooper DeJean has given Philadelphia ...