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He blew with His winds, and they were scattered (Latin: Flavit et Dissipati Sunt) is a phrase used in the aftermath of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. It referred to the storms in the northern Atlantic Ocean that destroyed much of the Armada, a large naval fleet commanded by the Duke of Medina Sidonia , after it retreated following an ...
The phrase Protestant Wind has been used in more than one context, notably: The storm that lashed the Spanish Armada in 1588. [1] The wind wrecked the Spanish fleet and thus saved England from invasion by the army of Philip II of Spain. The English made a commemorative medal saying 'He blew with His winds, and they were scattered'.
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. The World English Bible translates the passage as: The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.
Finding no land after a number of days, he turned north and reached Mossel Bay about 400 km east of Cape Town. He continued east against the Agulhas Current to Algoa Bay, where the coast began to turn north. Guessing that he had found the route to India, he turned back, discovered and rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and reached Lisbon in 1488 ...
Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918/Blow, Northern Wind at Wikisource " Ichot a burde in boure bryht " ('I know a lady in a bright bower'), sometimes titled, after its burden, " Blow, Northerne Wynd ", is an anonymous late-13th or early-14th century Middle English lyric poem (the burden may have popular or folk origins antedating 1300).
A call for direct debt cancellation made by the late Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee year in 2000 sparked a campaign that resulted in $130 billion of debt cancellation between 2000 and 2015.
“Candle in the Wind 1997” is the highest-selling single of all time, and apparently, it took less than an hour to write. In a new interview on The Graham Norton Show, lyricist Bernie Taupin ...
These wind turbines, there have been more men and women who have died from wind turbines than nuclear power,” he said. “That is a fact.” “More people have died from maintaining wind ...