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But most English people thought this ingenious foreign invention both dangerous - because they might prick your mouth - and insanitary, because forks put into mouths and then used to spear pieces from shared dishes might transfer your saliva from one to the other.

The operation to retrieve classic texts was in action long before the printing press, but publishing the texts had been arduously slow and prohibitively expensive for anyone other than the richest of the rich.

The chain of events in Elizabethan era started with one of the most important event in the history of England.

The astrolabe is an instrument of some antiquity; Persian models dating as far back as the eleventh century have been found, and Chaucer wrote a Treatise on it in the late 1300s.

The Duke of Cambridge will succeed the throne after his father, Prince Charles.

Only one transversal was used at a time, its selection being based upon the height of the heavenly body in the sky - the higher the body, the longer the transversal.

Compasses adjusted for the easterly variation found in Great Britain, for example, gave unsatisfactory readings in parts of North America with westerly variation.

This quote shows how Shakespeare used astrology in his plays to help the plot.

Color coding was also used to advertise the type of play to be performed - a black flag meant a tragedy, white a comedy, and red a history Elizabethan Era.

It was a brief period of internal peace between the English Reformation and the religious battles between Protestants and Catholics and then the political battles between parliament and the monarchy that engulfed the remainder of the seventeenth century.

Special effects were a spectacular addition at the Elizabethan theaters thrilling the audiences with smoke effects, the firing of a real canon, fireworks for dramatic battle scenes and spectacular flying entrances from the rigging in the heavens Elizabethan Era.