Deal Castle

  

 

Deal Castle

Deal Castle takes its name from the town of Deal, located in Kent, England. The town's name itself has ancient roots—it is believed to derive from the Old English word dæl, meaning "valley" or "dale." Over time, the name evolved, and Deal became a significant coastal settlement, particularly due to its proximity to the Downs anchorage, an important naval and trade route

 

 

Donald EAGLE tells Gabriel MILITO:

"Gabriel MILITO, aquí no se trata de contener a los bárbaros cuando vengan por nosotros; no con palabras y apelando a la justicia, se trata de que, por haber confiado en Dios, tengamos listos los medios y el poder REAL para impedírselo"~~~Donald Eagle 

Deal Castle takes its name from the town of Deal, located in Kent, England. The town's name itself has ancient roots—it is believed to derive from the Old English word dæl, meaning "valley" or "dale." Over time, the name evolved, and Deal became a significant coastal settlement, particularly due to its proximity to the Downs anchorage, an important naval and trade route.
The castle was built by Henry VIII in 1539–40 as part of his coastal defense strategy against potential invasions from France and the Holy Roman Empire. Alongside Walmer Castle and Sandown Castle, Deal Castle formed a network of fortifications designed to protect England’s shores.  

Henry VIII built a series of Device Forts, also known as Henrician castles, to defend England’s coast against potential invasions from France and Spain. These artillery fortifications were constructed between 1539 and 1547 and were strategically placed along vulnerable coastal areas2.
Some notable Device Forts include:
Deal Castle – A large artillery fortress in Kent designed to protect the Downs anchorage.
Walmer Castle – Another coastal defense in Kent, built alongside Deal Castle.
Sandown Castle – Located on the Isle of Wight, part of the island’s defensive network.
Southsea Castle – Built to guard the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour.
Pendennis Castle – Positioned in Cornwall to defend against naval threats.
St Mawes Castle – A smaller but strategically placed fort near Pendennis.
Camden Fort – Located in Pembrokeshire, Wales, overseeing Milford Haven.
These forts were armed with heavy artillery and designed to repel enemy ships before they could land troops. While some saw little action, Southsea Castle played a role in the Battle of the Solent in 1545, when French forces attempted a raid

Iced Tea

Tea
Iced Tea
Limón

Puerto Limón

Philippians 4:11
“Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.”  

Ephesians 6:10
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.”

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abby Phillip

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Tea" "Iced Tea" "Puerto Limón" "Lemon"

Rotterdam

Wrought Iron
Hierro Forjado

Erasmus Bridge
Rotterdam

Psalms 33:4
“For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.”

 

 

 

Mathilda

 

 

"Off the eastern side of the square ran a small street, and on a corner thus formed stood a house that was a masterpiece: three stories high, with two verandas, not just one, and cascading from each, flowers—yellow, red and blue. But what made it unforgettable to those who admired it as they took their coffee from the kiosk below was the delectable latticework, woven with very slender iron strands, which decorated the two extended verandas. ‘Metallic lace,’ an approving woman had called the effect, and her description had stuck: Maison Dentelle—House of Lace."~~~James A. Michener: CARIBBEAN. Ch.9 The Creoles  

Here’s a natural Spanish translation for this passage:
"Al lado oriental de la plaza corría una pequeña calle, y en una esquina así formada se alzaba una casa que era una obra maestra: tres pisos de altura, con dos verandas, no solo una, y desde cada una de ellas descendían flores—amarillas, rojas y azules. Pero lo que la hacía inolvidable para quienes la admiraban mientras tomaban su café en el quiosco de abajo era el exquisito enrejado, tejido con finísimas hebras de hierro, que adornaba las dos verandas extendidas. ‘Encaje metálico,’ comentó con aprobación una mujer al describirlo, y su expresión se había quedado: Maison Dentelle—Casa de Encaje."

 

 

 

Eiffel Tower
 

 

 

 

Erasmus Bridge

 

 

 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 

 The Village Blacksmith
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Under a spreading chestnut-tree
    ⁠The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
    With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
    Are strong as iron bands.
 
His hair is crisp, and black, and long;
    His face is like the tan;
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
    He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
    For he owes not any man.
 
Week in, week out, from morn till night,
    You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,
    With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
    When the evening sun is low.
 
And children coming home from school
    Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
    And hear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
    Like chaff from a threshing floor.
 
He goes on Sunday to the church,
    And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
    He hears his daughter's voice,
Singing in the village choir,
    And it makes his heart rejoice.
 
It sounds to him like her mother's voice,
    Singing in Paradise!
He needs must think of her once more,
    How in the grave she lies;
And with his hard, rough hand he wipes
    A tear out of his eyes.
 
Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing,
    Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
    Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
    Has earned a night's repose.
 
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
    For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
    Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
    Each burning deed and thought!

 

 

Chess: "Wrought Iron" "Hierro Forjado" "Rotterdam" "Goldsmith" "Eiffel Tower" "Toledo" "Erasmus Bridge"

San Francisco Bay

Bridge
Golden Gate
San Francisco Bay

Philippians 3:10
“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;”

 

 

Golden Gate Bridge

 

 

Brit Manuela
 

Chess: “Bridge” “Golden Gate” “San Francisco Bay”

El Camino Real

Johnny Bench
Poyo
Banca
Bench
El Camino Real

Ephesians 6:13
“Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”

 

 

"the earth belongs to the living"~~~Jefferson 

Nicole Aldana

 

 

 

Chess: "Johnny Bench" "Poyo" "Banca" "Bench"

“Don Ramón, his granddaughter Trinidad and her mother Engracia, widow of Agustín de Saldaña slain by the Apache, lived in a beautiful rambling adobe-walled house facing the Military Plaza that stretched westward from the still-unfinished church of San Fernando. Passers-by were charmed by the Saldaña home: ‘Its walls are always so neatly whitewashed, and the seven wooden beams which jut out from the front wall are always hung with pots of flowers or with golden gourds or strings of corn and chilies drying in the sun. Don Ramón’s house looks as if happy people live inside.’
  Behind this inviting wall hid a nest of eleven interconnected small rooms forming a large horseshoe, the center of which was a lovely patio opening onto an even more beautiful garden where stone benches faced a fountain that gushed cool water whenever Indian servants worked the foot pumps. No one who stepped inside this house or into the garden for even two minutes could deceive himself into thinking that it was a French house or English, and certainly it wasn’t German. This was an evocation of Spain set down in the wilderness of New Spain, and as such it epitomized the ancient Spanish preoccupation with protecting families; stout walls safeguarded them from outside terrors, and a tiny chapel enabled them to hold private religious services.And just as the house protected the family, so the family jealously guarded its prerogatives, prepared to do almost anything, including murder, to defend them. The Saldaña family was fighting to avoid submersion in a sea of mestizo and Indian faces, determined to resist intruders coming down El Camino Real from the new Spanish possession of Louisiana or from the uncivilized Yankee lands farther east and north.”~~~James A. Michener: TEXAS Ch.3 El Camino Real
 

Pan

Paella
Pan

Iced Tea

  

 

Ephesians 6:10

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.” 

 

 

 "if I don't pan out as an actor I can still go back to school"~~~Saul Bellow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Santiago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paella

 

 

 

Laura T.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Paella" "Pan" "Iced Tea"

Ireland

Ireland
Chaucer
Spenser
St. Patrick

 

Ephesians 4:29
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”

 

 "Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled"~~~Spenser

 

 

 

"This ... focuses on Spenser's creative response to both the legacy of Chaucer and also to the tradition of native medieval romance. What characterizes Spenser's response to both Chaucer and medieval native romance above all is a sense of strategy. A number of Spenser's texts provoke the reader into moments of recognition, where s/he must negotiate the significance of the work's signalled relationship with earlier native literature. More than just borrowing, Spenser's response to Chaucer and native medieval romance involves complex manipulations of the authority and meaning of the earlier literature, impacting on the authority of his own works. What is perhaps most interesting is how Spenser's handling of both Chaucer's legacy and the tradition of native medieval romance achieves synthesis, since the two traditions represented an intrinsic opposition."~~~Richard A. McCabe
Those lucky few are treated to an appropriately complex, shifting Spenser. McCabe’s introduction highlights a guiding principle which underpins almost every essay:
Without his literary skills, Spenser would be indistinguishable from the scores of secretaries, civil servants, and colonists who sought personal advantage on the fringes of empire (p. 4).
This sentence identifies one of the major preoccupations of Spenser studies in the past thirty years: his involvement in the government of Ireland as a colonial administrator and his intense, problematic thinking about Irish affairs in The Faerie Queene and Vewe of the Present State of Ireland.
Yet McCabe balances the self-interested secretary with the imaginative writer; he notes that the section on poetic craft is the major justification for the Handbook’s existence (p. 4). One of the strengths of the volume is that questions of
 craft are not restricted to this section."

Chess: "Ireland" "Chaucer" "Spenser" "St. Patrick"

Life

LIFE

Ephesians 4:6
“One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Life"

Las Vegas

Clay
Las Vegas
Harry Potter

Numbers 35:6
“And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.”

 

Galatians 6:7
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

 

 

 

 

 "Rainstorm Lashes a Forest on Coast"~~~New York Times

"Clay lasts longer than paper."

 

 

 

 

 

"Milton wore latchets in his shoes instead of buckles." ~~~Boswell

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Las Vegas" "Clay" " Harry Potter"

Castilla La Mancha

Castellano
Cast
Castle
Castilla La Mancha 

Galatians 5:1
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Castellano" "Cast" "Castle" "Castilla La Mancha"