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Connection #6 - King Alfonso VIII to Urraca of León and Castile             Connection #7 - Urraca of León and Castile to Pope Calixtus II             Connection #8 - Pope Calixtus II to Pope Paschal II             Connection #9 - Pope Paschal II to Henry V             Connection #10 - Henry V to William Shakespeare

Henry V ( Welsh : Harri V ) (16 September 1387 – 31 August 1422 [1] [2] ) was King of England from 1413 until his death. From an unassuming start, his military successes in the Hundred Years' War , culminating with his famous victory at the Battle of Agincourt , saw him come close to conquering France. Wikipedia  Accession of Henry V. 1 : 1413.— Henry V. ascended the throne without challenge, and was crowned at Westminster three weeks after his father's death (April 9). The responsibilities of his position sobered him at once. The riotous Prince Hal was suddenly transformed into the brave and spirited King Henry V. —Shakespeare's ideal King. His earliest acts were to discard his old companions; to call around him the wisest of the land ; to set free the Earl of March; and to restore the Percy estates to the exiled son of Hotspur. He caused the body of Richard II. to be buried in Westminster Abbey. Determined to have a minister who should carry out his polic...

  Voyager probes Launched in 1977, the Voyager probes carried two golden records that were inscribed with diagrams depicting the human form, our solar system and its location. Also included were recordings of pictures and sounds from Earth. Wikipedia Pioneers 10 and 11, which preceded Voyager, both carried small metal plaques identifying their time and place of origin for the benefit of any other spacefarers that might find them in the distant future. With this example before them, NASA placed a more ambitious message aboard Voyager 1 and 2-a kind of time capsule, intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials. The Voyager message is carried by a phonograph record-a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the ...

Take of the humidity, or moisture, an ounce and a half, and or the Southern redness, which is the soul of gold, a fourth part, that is to say, half-an-ounce of the citrine Seyre, in like manner, half-an-ounce of the Auripigment, half-an-ounce, which are eight; that is three ounces. And know ye that the vine of the wise is drawn forth in three, but the wine thereof is not perfected, until at length thirty be accomplished Understand the operation, therefore. Decoction lessens the matter, but the tincture augments it; because Luna in fifteen days is diminished; and in the third she is augmented. This is the beginning and the end. Behold, I have declared that which was hidden, since the work is both with thee and about thee - that which was within is taken out and fixed, and thou canst have it either in earth or sea. Keep, therefore, thy Argent vive , which is prepared in the innermost chamber in which it is coagulated; for that is the Mercury which is separated from the...

Succeeded Urban II , and reigned from 13 Aug., 1099, till he died at Rome , 21 Jan., 1118. Born in central Italy , he was received at an early age as a monk in Cluny. In his twentieth year he was sent on business of the monastery to Rome , and was retained at the papal court by Gregory VII , and made Cardinal-Priest of St. Clement's church. It was in this church that the conclave met after the death of Pope Urban , and Cardinal Rainerius was the unanimous choice of the sacred college. He protested vigorously against his election, maintaining, with some justice , that his monastic training had not fitted him to deal with the weighty problems which confronted the papacy in that troublous age. His protestations were disregarded by his colleagues, and he was consecrated the following day in St. Peter's . Once pope , he betrayed no further hesitation and wielded the sceptre with a firm and prudent grasp. The main lines of his policy had been laid by the master minds of Greg...

  Pioneer plaque The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold - anodized aluminium plaques which were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft , featuring a pictorial message , in case either Pioneer 10 or 11 are intercepted by extraterrestrial life . The plaques show the nude figures of a human male and female along with several symbols that are designed to provide information about the origin of the spacecraft. [1] The Pioneer spacecraft were the first human-built objects to leave the solar system . The plaques were attached to the spacecraft's antenna support struts in a position that would shield them from erosion by stellar dust . Physical properties Material: 6061 T6 gold-anodized aluminum Width: 229 mm (9 inches) Height: 152 mm (6 inches) Thickness: 1.27 mm (0.05 inches) Mean depth of engraving : 0.381 mm (0.015 inches) Mass: approx. 0.120 kilograms Wikipedia  At the far right, the ...

  Pope Calixtus II (or Calistus II) (died December 13, 1124), born Guy de Vienne, the fourth son of William I, Count of Burgundy (1057–87), was elected Pope on February 1, 1119, after the death of Pope Gelasius II (1118–19). His pontificate was shaped by the Investiture Controversy, which he was able to settle through the Concordat of Worms (in 1122). Although his birth date is not known, his eldest brother was born in 1061, therefore we can assume that Guy himself was born between 1065 and 1068. Guy first appeared in contemporary records when, in 1088, he became the Archbishop of Vienne. He held strong pro-Papal views about the Investiture Controversy. As archbishop, he was appointed papal legate to France by Pope Paschal II (1099–1118); this was during the time that Paschal II, yielding to pressure from Emperor Henry V (1105–25), was induced to issue the Privilegium of 1111, by which he yielded much of the papal prerogatives that had been so forcefully claimed by Po...