Good King Henry (thing) by hectorthebat - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Good King Henry (thing) See all of Good King Henry, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by hectorthebat Fri Aug 02 2002 at 7:14:36 This vegetable has many other names- mercury, lincolnshire spinach, poor man's asparagus and so on, and it has been grown as a vegetable in cottage gardens for hundreds of years. However, fashions change, and now this dual-purpose vegetable is a rarity. It's a perennial which reaches about 2 ft hig...

Henry Every

Henry Every (b. 1653), also known as Henry Avery, Benjamin Bridgeman, ‘Long Ben’ and (incorrectly) John Avery, was one of the most savage and successful pirates in the Golden Age of Piracy. Capturing a treasure ship of the Mughal emperor in 1695 with a cargo worth over $95 million today, he promptly disappeared and was never seen again. Thanks to his jackpot capture of the Ganij-i-Sawai, Every gained the nickname ‘Arch Pirate’. It has long been said that Every’s huge success inspired ma...

Old Henry – first-look review

Old Henry – first-look reviewSourceURL: https://lwlies.com/festivals/old-henry-first-look-review/ Old Henry is a western directed by Potsy Ponciroli that places us in 1906 Oklahoma County where Henry McCarty (Tim Blake Nelson), a widowed farmer, is living with his teenage son Wyatt (Gavin Lewis) among the temperate grasslands. While their existence within this far-flung rural idyll seems colourless, their life together is pleasant and uneventful enough. That is until Hen...

A Happy Immoralist: The Case of Richard Rich

A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s 1960 play about Sir Thomas More, is usually interpreted as a defense of living and dying in accord with strict adherence to moral principle. The situation, however, is not so straightforward.  The plot, based on the historical record, is well known. King Henry VIII’s desire for a son leads him to seek a divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne Boleyn. Thomas More, previously named Lord Chancellor of England, is a devou...