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Lake Elsinore
The city of Lake Elsinore is home to Southern California's only natural lake. Since the 1800s, the lake has provided respite and recreation, beginning as a campsite for early pioneer travelers and later evolving into a world-class playground for the rich and famous. In 1951, Lake Elsinore's popularity suffered when the lake dried up, causing many of the recreational activities to move away. Today the lake is maintained at an ideal 1,240 feet above sea level and filled with weekend watercraft and fishermen, while families picnic nearby and the city enjoys a major growth in population and businesses.
Elsinore Revisited
This book challenges the general assumption that William Shakespeare was the sole author of Hamlet . It is maintained that the plot line and the characters were drawn up by someone else. This someone is thought to have been a person of high rank, a feudal prince, in the Elizabethan society. Being a nobleman whose constant presence at Court was expected, he must have been familiar with life, gossip and intrigues of the Court. Furthermore, he had knowledge about the Danish court and Elsinore, probably imparted to him by envoys who had visited Elsinore. The scene of the play is Elsinore, but it mirrors the English court. In Elsinore is revisited we walk in the footsteps of the Queen s envoys to...
Scotland and the Sea
Alexander Fenton writes on the uses of shellfish as a way of examining the relationship between small-scale and large-scale fishing, and Ian Morrison investigates boat types in Shetland and in the Scandinavian islands. Shetland is explored again by Brian Smith's exposition of local fishing tenures. Gordon Jackson investigates the DPL shipping line before 1840 and Anthony Slaven writes about the business leaders in the great ship building firms of the Clyde. Robert Prescott breaks new ground by describing the Lascar seamen who were the origin of the Asian community in Glasgow, and Christopher Harvie and Stephen Maxwell write jointly on the political impact of North Sea oil.
The Sound Toll at Elsinore
The articles in this book address a variety of important topics related to the Sound Toll, ranging from its introduction and first troubled years in the late Middle Ages, via its administration and custom houses throughout the centuries, to its revenues and accounts from its inception until its demise. Along the way, the articles tell of Mother Sigbrit challenging the seafaring nations around 1520; of wars and international entanglements in the sixteenth century; of the fight for access to the Baltic export so vital to the growing populations of Western Europe; of how Christian IV severely raised the toll rates, with disastrous consequences; of the Swedish attack that led to the Torstenson War of 1643-45; of the loss of Halland and eventually, in 1658-60, also of Scania and Blekinge; and of the brazen smuggling carried out by English skippers in the 1700s.
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