tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006086842107674841.post4620059123491391866..comments2024-03-15T15:21:12.995+05:30Comments on Quenching BIT's Quriousity: SS Super Sunday #2 : Child's Play?Leonidashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16589184542624884896noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006086842107674841.post-6859098721019236002015-06-25T00:15:28.658+05:302015-06-25T00:15:28.658+05:30God Save the King refers to the National Anthem of...God Save the King refers to the National Anthem of the U.K., see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Save_the_Queen. "Remember, remember" may contain the words 'God save the King" but that does not qualify as it's alternate name, especially since a hugely popular national anthem exists with the same name.<br />As for, Little Boy Blue, I'll accept that answer even though the web results and certain pages, read non-Wikipedia, point only to Old Mother Hubbard.TheTameRacingDriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17489466817253080015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006086842107674841.post-65635692672744476702015-06-24T20:06:26.487+05:302015-06-24T20:06:26.487+05:30https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy_Blue
Litt...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy_Blue<br />Little boy blue- the rhyme was used to represent Cardinal Wosley<br />GOD SAVE THE KING/GOD SAVE THE QUEEN: ITS THE SAME AS REMEMBER,REMEMBER!<br />Remember, remember the Fifth of November,<br />The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,<br />I know of no reason<br />Why the Gunpowder Treason<br />Should ever be forgot.<br />Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent<br />To blow up the King and Parli'ment.<br />Three-score barrels of powder below<br />To prove old England's overthrow;<br />By God's providence he was catch'd (or by God's mercy*)<br />With a dark lantern and burning match.<br />Holla boys, Holla boys, let the bells ring.<br />Holloa boys, holloa boys, "God save the King!"<br />And what should we do with him? Burn him!Hermoine Grangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16132695639733086254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006086842107674841.post-42402667253930998702015-06-24T18:55:11.226+05:302015-06-24T18:55:11.226+05:30Answers are,
A - Possible Origins of Nursery Rhym...Answers are,<br /><br />A - Possible Origins of Nursery Rhymes<br />B - Polly Put the Kettle On (first record of lyrics in modern form in Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge)<br />C - Remember Remember (Guy Fawkes was one of the members of the Gunpowder Plot)<br />D - London Bridge is Falling Down (The attack on Viking-occupied London with the Norwegian king Olaf II)<br />E - Humpty Dumpty ('Humpty Dumpty' was a siege engine that was used unsuccessfully during the Siege of Gloucester in the English Civil War)<br />F - Old Mother Hubbard (refers to Cardinal Thomas Wosley who refused Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon)<br />G - Rock-a-bye Baby (observations of English immigrants who noted how native-American mothers rocked their babies in Birch bark cradles)<br />H - Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary (believed to be connected to Queen Mary Stuart and her reign over Scotland)<br />I - Jack and Jill (refers to attempt by Charles I to reform the taxes on liquid measure, he ordered the volume of Jack, 0.5 pint, to be dropped, which consequently dropped the value of Gill, 0.25 pint)<br />J - Goosey Goosey Gander (reference to Catholic priests who would hide in 'priest holes' to say their Latin prayers to avoid persecution by zealous Protestants under Henry VIII's rule)<br />K - Ring around the Rosie (reference to the Black Death in Europe)<br />L - Lucy Locket (Kitty Fisher possible reference to Catherine Fischer who was the subkect of three unfinished portraits by Joshua Reynolds)<br />M - Three Blind Mice (possible reference to the 'Oxford Martyrs', bishops, Latimer, Ridley, and Cranmer, who were burned by Mary I)<br />N - Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (has been very recently connected to the Slave Trade in southern United States) TheTameRacingDriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17489466817253080015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006086842107674841.post-49475403131827569962015-06-21T16:41:34.379+05:302015-06-21T16:41:34.379+05:30A-CHILD'S PLAY :rhymes (can be children poems/...A-CHILD'S PLAY :rhymes (can be children poems/NURSERY RHYMES)<br />B-Barnaby Rudge and His mother. (POLLY PUT THE KETTLE ON)<br />C-Guy Fawkes (RHYME- GOD SAVE THE KING/GOD SAVE THE QUEEN)<br />D-Olaf of Norway-II,he was CANONISED (LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN)<br />E-Siege of Colchester (English Civil War) (HUMPTY DUMPTY)<br />F-Thomas Wolsey,Roman Catholic Church Cardinal.(LITTLE BOY BLUE)<br />G-Birchbark (LAND OF SILVER BIRCH) <br />can also be (rock a bye baby )[birch bark basket can be used as cradles]<br />H-Mary Queen of Scots - RISING OF THE NORTH (Mary,Mary,Quite contrary)<br />I-Gill is a unit of Measurement. (JACK AND JILL)<br />J-Priest hole is the term given to hiding places for priests built into many of the principal Catholic houses of England (GOOSEY GOOSEY GANDER)<br />K-Black Death(RING A RING'O ROSES)<br />L-Kitty Fisher by Nathiel Hone.(LUCY LOCKETT)<br />M-BURNING OF ANGLICAN BISHOPS :cranmer ridley latimer( THREE BLIND MICE)<br />N-Atlantic Slave Trade-African Holocaust(BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP)Hermoine Grangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16132695639733086254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006086842107674841.post-62380113998093698542015-06-21T16:26:41.143+05:302015-06-21T16:26:41.143+05:30*G- LAND OF SILVER BIRCH
G CAN ALSO BE (ROCK A B...*G- LAND OF SILVER BIRCH <br /> G CAN ALSO BE (ROCK A BYE BABY).<br />Hermoine Grangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16132695639733086254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006086842107674841.post-46125515140210830922015-06-21T16:25:27.720+05:302015-06-21T16:25:27.720+05:30A-CHILD'S PLAY :rhymes (can be children poems/...A-CHILD'S PLAY :rhymes (can be children poems/NURSERY RHYMES)<br />B-Barnaby Rudge and His mother. (POLLY PUT THE KETTLE ON)<br />C-Guy Fawkes (RHYME- GOD SAVE THE KING/GOD SAVE THE QUEEN)<br />D-Olaf of Norway-II,he was CANONISED (LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN)<br />E-Siege of Colchester (English Civil War) (HUMPTY DUMPTY)<br />F-Thomas Wolsey,Roman Catholic Church Cardinal.(LITTLE BOY BLUE)<br />G-Birchbark (LAND OF SILVER BIRCH) <br />H-Mary Queen of Scots - RISING OF THE NORTH (Mary,Mary,Quite contrary)<br />I-Gill is a unit of Measurement. (JACK AND JILL)<br />J-Priest hole is the term given to hiding places for priests built into many of the principal Catholic houses of England (GOOSEY GOOSEY GANDER)<br />K-Black Death(RING A RING'O ROSES)<br />L-Kitty Fisher by Nathiel Hone.(LUCY LOCKETT)<br />M-BURNING OF ANGLICAN BISHOPS :cranmer ridley latimer( THREE BLIND MICE)<br />N-Atlantic Slave Trade-African Holocaust(BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP)Hermoine Grangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16132695639733086254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006086842107674841.post-69829477669707395042015-06-21T15:21:35.745+05:302015-06-21T15:21:35.745+05:30A - Origin of Nursery Rhymes
B - Polly put the Ket...A - Origin of Nursery Rhymes<br />B - Polly put the Kettle on (from Barnaby Rudge)<br />C - Remember Remember (from Guy Fawkes)<br />D - London Bridge is Falling Down (from Olaf II of Norway)<br />E - Humpty Dumpty (from Seige of Colchester)<br />F - Old Mother Hubbard (from Cardinal Thomas Wolsey)<br />G - Rock-a-bye baby (birch cradle)<br />H - Mary, Mary Quite Contrary (from Queen Mary of Scotland)<br />I - Jack and Jill (from Gill, unit of measurement)<br />J - Goosy Goosy Gander (Priest Holes)<br />K - Ring a Ring o' Roses / Ring around the Rosie (from Black Death)<br />L - Lucy Locket (from Kitty Fisher)<br />M - Three Blind Mice (from the Oxford Martyrs)<br />N - Baa Baa Black sheep (from Slavery)Hitchhikernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006086842107674841.post-70403887407990144612015-06-21T14:19:13.475+05:302015-06-21T14:19:13.475+05:30A - Origins of Nursery Rhymes
B- Barnaby Rudge by ...A - Origins of Nursery Rhymes<br />B- Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens<br />C- Guy Fawkes<br />D - Olaf Haraldsson (Olaf II of Norway)<br />E- Seige of Colchester<br />F - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey<br />G - Birch cradle for babies<br />H - Mary, Queen of Scots<br />I - Gill (unit of measurement)<br />J - Priest holes<br />K - Black Death<br />L- Kitty Fisher<br />M - Oxford Martyrs (Burning of Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer)<br />N - Slave Trade (Slavery)Hitchhikernoreply@blogger.com