William Brand

Amazing stuff!

Short answer. I have no idea. Long answer. I've heard speculation from pumps to buckets, but never piss tubs. There are many examples of 'fire restrictions' and I've seen several documents that talk about the snapping of anything that will cause a spark and the limitations of smoking and lanterns in various parts of the deck. The tradition of smoking forward is still strictly observed by captains even today. A careless pirate aboard the Liberty Clipper at Pirates in Paradise allowed her cigarette to be carried into the rigging while smoking amidships. The captain placed the lady in the brig 'verbally speaking'. You become very aware of fire when surrounded by canvas and wood powered by wind.

Awesome.

That coffin is hideous. Funny, but hideous.

DAY 39: 1721 - The Little-Compton Scourge or, The Anti-Courant. This interesting little document is hard to explain, even after reading it, but I set it up on legal sized paper and offer it just the same. Print and take an inch off the bottom. 1721-LittleComptonScourge.pdf

DAY 38: This is a 1724 document about firefighting in Boston. It's a list of articles signed by a Fire Society and a precursor to modern fire departments. It's set up on 11" x 17" 1724-BostonFireSociety.pdf

Are there merchants that make that sort of thing today?

That looks like a straw tricorn, either on purpose or by accident. I suppose it could be an old hat that has just been 'tricorned' by abuse over the years. What year is the painting?

What!!!? Captain Jim is superior to that fellow in every way. How dare you compare our captain (who will never accept his captaincy) with the man!

Straw. That's my immediate impression.

The double bell wedge is a pretty tent, but it does come with some challenges of you want to put a rope bed in it. John Gallia (CaptJ) has one. I think the delux storage tent by Red Hawk Trading Company is nice. It's a very deep storage tent with a full awning. Think about Hugh's giant tent setup minus the second side. http://www.redhawk-t...torage-tent.htm

Soulevez un verre.

Mark is hereby pardoned, but in all seriousness...fantastic stuff. You've done yourselves and the hobby at large very proud.

Someone promised pictures and I've seen only a handful. Who's to blame?

Just tell him to make a green or brown justacorps.

Those are fun.

The sword fight (and dialogue) between Stewart Granger and James Mason in The Prisoner of Zenda.

DAY 37: While this is later than the Golden Age, it's an interesting polling piece about freeholders in the County of Kent. This is set up on a letter sized page and a quarter inch should be taken off all four sides to be close to the original document. 1754-FreeholdersPoll.pdf

DAY 36: This is a great map by Herrera from 1601. While an older map, it has some great details and covers a broad area of the World. It's too big to be printed on smaller, standard papers, but it's a great piece. 1601-Herrera.pdf

DAY 35: His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to Both Houses of Parliament. This is setup on legal sized paper with crop marks. 1715-HisMajestys.pdf

Welcome aboard.

Oh, no, you most definitely have to change it. And the new title has to be impossible to mimic. Your new name shall be 'That_Crimson_Part_Of_The_Day_Which_Comes_After_Night_But_Before_Breakfast_Generally_Speaking_Except_On_Bank_Holidays'. It might have to be an acronym.

That person joined in 2004 and only posted once.

aye (1) "assent," 1570s, of unknown origin, perhaps a variant of I, meaning "I assent;" or an alteration of M.E. yai "yes" (see yea), or from aye (2) "always, ever." bloody (adj.) O.E. blodig, adjective from blod (see blood). Common Germanic, cf. O.Fris. blodich, O.S. blôdag, Du. bloedig, O.H.G. bluotag, Ger. blutig. It has been a British intens. swear word since at least 1676. Weekley relates it to the purely intensive use of the cognate Du. bloed, Ger. Blut. But perhaps it ultimately is connected with bloods in the slang sense of "rowdy young aristocrats" (see blood (n.)) via expressions such as bloody drunk "as drunk as a blood." Partridge reports that it was "respectable" before c.1750, and it was used by Fielding and Swift, but heavily tabooed c.1750-c.1920, perhaps from imagined association with menstruation; Johnson calls it "very vulgar," and OED writes of it, "now constantly in the mouths of the lowest classes, but by respectable people considered 'a horrid word', on par with obscene or profane language." The onset of the taboo against bloody coincides with the increase in linguistic prudery that presaged the Victorian Era but it is hard to say what the precise cause was in the case of this specific word. Attempts have been made to explain the term’s extraordinary shock power by invoking etymology. Theories that derive it from such oaths as “By our Lady” or “God’s blood” seem farfetched, however. More likely, the taboo stemmed from the fear that many people have of blood and, in the minds of some, from an association with menstrual bleeding. Whatever, the term was debarred from polite society during the whole of the nineteenth century. [Rawson] Shaw shocked theatergoers when he put it in the mouth of Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion" (1914), and for a time the word was known euphemistically as "the Shavian adjective." It was avoided in print as late as 1936. Bloody Sunday, Jan. 30, 1972, when 13 civilians were killed by British troops at protest in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.