Another was a crystal and gold posset set the Spanish Ambassador gave Mary I of England and Philip II of Spain as a betrothal gift.

Nothing On is set in " a delightful 16th-century posset mill " that has been converted to a modern dwelling for which renters are solicited ; the fictional playwright is appropriately named Robin Housemonger.

The word " posset " is mostly used nowadays for a cold set dessert loosely based on the drink, containing cream and lemon, similar to syllabub.

* Mary Renault has Bagoas give Alexander the Great an egg posset with honey, wine and cheese to break a long fast in her novel The Persian Boy.

Thus Rambling Syd Rumpo may say " Green grows the grunge on my Lady's posset ", making it difficult to approach the murder scene in Macbeth ( Lady Macbeth: " I have drugged their possets ") with the seriousness it deserved.

Eggnog may have originated in East Anglia, England ; or it may have simply developed from posset, a medieval European beverage made with hot milk.

Take galyntyne or jelly of meat juices and grease and add to a posset ; when the geese be roasted enough, take and smite them into pieces, and that which is within and add to a posset and put wine in it if it be too thick.

" Enter Haruest with a sythe on his neck, & all his reapers with siccles, and a great black bowle with a posset in it borne before him: they come in singing.

Obscure but innocent words like posset ( a medieval drink made with curdled milk ) became cues for instant giggling, especially among adolescents in school.

The posset is said to be a jorum of hot milk, egg, treacle and nutmeg.

Many everyday wares were made: paving tiles, mugs, drug jars, dishes, wine bottles, posset pots, salt pots, candlesticks, fuddling cups ( that is, ale mugs joined in groups of three, four or five with connecting holes to confuse the drinker ), puzzle jugs ( similar to fuddling cups ), barber's bowls, pill slabs, bleeding bowls, porringers, and flower bricks.

: Omnium primum avidum novae libertatis populum, ne postmodum flecti precibus aut donis regiis posset, iure iurando adegit neminem Romae passuros regnare.

A posset ( also spelled poshote, poshotte ) was a British hot drink of milk curdled with wine or ale, often spiced, which was popular from medieval times to the 19th century.

Such sets contained a posset " pot ," or " bowl ," or " cup " to serve it in, a container for mixing it in, and usually various containers for the ingredients, as well as spoons.

* Kay Harker, of John Masefield's book, The Box of Delights, takes a posset to help clear his head, on the advice of the local police Inspector.

* alter cum res gestas tum etiam studium atque auris adhibere posset.

omne genus nasci posset, nil semine egeret.

A custom springing from this had spread to the north of Africa ; but Valerius, Bishop of Hippo, broke through it, and had St. Augustine, as yet a priest, to preach before him, because he himself was unable to do so with facility in the Latin language -- " cum non satis expedite Latino sermone concionari posset ".

Bloch quotes Prinn for the first time since " The Shambler from the Stars ": " The meerest droppe, if placed in a posset of wine or sack, will transforme ye beloved into a veritable bitche in heate.

In 1511, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar set out from Hispaniola to form the first Spanish settlement in Cuba, with orders from Spain to conquer the island.

With the Spanish New Laws of 1552 Cuban Indians were freed from encomienda, and some seven Indian towns were set up.

The Spanish Constitution of 1812, and the legislation passed by the Cádiz Cortes after it was set up in 1808, created a number of liberal political and commercial policies, which were welcomed in Cuba but also curtailed a number of previous political and commercial liberties.

Never admitting that he had reached a continent previously unknown to Europeans, rather than the East Indies he had set out for, Columbus called the inhabitants of the lands he visited indios ( Spanish for " Indians ").

In the same year he set up his periodical A Review of the Affairs of France which supported the Harley Ministry, chronicling the events of the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1702 – 1714 ).

The Spanish then set out to conquer the rest of Tawantinsuyu capturing Cuzco in November 1533.

On 12 July 1588, the Spanish Armada, a great fleet of ships, set sail for the channel, planning to ferry a Spanish invasion force under the Duke of Parma to the coast of southeast England from the Netherlands.

The Orwells set out in September 1938 via Gibraltar and Tangier to avoid Spanish Morocco and arrived at Marrakech.

The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.

He set sail on May 9, 1540, with orders from the Spanish Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza to await at a certain point on the coast the arrival of an expedition by land under the command of Coronado.

With Interlingua an objective procedure is used to extract and standardize the most widespread word or words for a concept found in a set of control languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, with German and Russian as secondary references.

Chase describes music from this period, “ Taking the guitar as his instrumental model, and drawing his inspiration largely from the peculiar traits of Andalusian folk music – but without using actual folk themes – Albéniz achieves a stylization of Spanish traditional idioms that while thoroughly artistic, gives a captivating impression of spontaneous improvisation ... Cordoba is the piece that best represents the style of Albéniz in this period, with its hauntingly beautiful melody, set against the acrid dissonances of the plucked accompaniment imitating the notes of the Moorish guslas.

The late 1980s and 1990s saw the production of a series of critically acclaimed and popular films such as Hidden Agenda, one of the rare films dealing with the political troubles in Northern Ireland, Carla's Song set partially in Nicaragua, and Land and Freedom examining the Republican resistance in the Spanish Civil War.

In 1790, Manuel Quimper of the Spanish Navy set sail from Nootka, a temporary settlement on Vancouver Island, with orders to explore the newly discovered Strait of Juan de Fuca.

* 1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.

Original Sin is set in the late 19th century Cuba during the Spanish rule, and flashes back and forth a few times from the scene of a woman awaiting her execution by garrote while telling her story to a priest, to the actual events of that story.

The Panamanian movement for independence can be indirectly attributed to the abolishment of the encomienda system in Azuero, set forth by the Spanish Crown, in 1558 due to repeated protests by locals against the mistreatment of the native population.

He also opened the first public opera house in Rome, and for the Carnival celebrations of 1668, commissioned Antonio Maria Abbatini of the Sistine Chapel Choir to set to music his free Italian translation of a Spanish religious drama La Baltasara.

It was resumed during the War of Spanish Succession and in 1704 set on a permanent basis, remaining until the end of the Ancien regime.

In 1999, after the lasting success of Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten, Marienhof, Unter uns and Verbotene Liebe, ProSieben aired Mallorca – Suche nach dem Paradies, set on the Spanish island with the same name.

In 1942, on the set of Un garibaldino al convento, he met Spanish actress Maria Mercader ( sister of Ramon Mercader, Trotsky's assassin ), with whom he started a relationship.

* January 31 – The Spanish Embassy in Guatemala is invaded and set on fire, killing 36 people.

* October 18 – October 21 – Spanish Civil War: The whole Spanish northern seaboard falls into the Falangists ' hands ; Republican forces in Gijon, Spain, set fire to petrol reserves prior to retreating before the advancing Falangists.