Beginning in the Middle Ages, a squire was the shield- or armour-bearer of a knight. At times, squires acted as a knight’s errand runner or servant. Use of the term evolved over time. Initially, squires were a knight’s trainees/apprentices. Later, a village leader or a lord of the manor might be called a squire, and still later, the term applied to key public figures, such as justices of the peace or members of parliament. In contemporary American usage, squire is the title given to justices of the peace or similar local dignitaries.
Squire is a shortened version of the word 'esquire', from the Old French escuier (modern French écuyer), itself derived from the Late Latin scutarius (“shield bearer”), in medieval or Old English a scutifer. The Classical Latin equivalent was armiger, “arms bearer”.
The most common definition of “squire” refers to the Middle Ages. A squire was typically a teenaged boy, training to become a knight. A boy became a squire at the age of 14 or 15. Squires were the second step to becoming a knight, after first having served as a page. Boys served a knight as an attendant or shield carrier, doing simple but important tasks such as saddling a horse or caring for the knight’s weapons and armour. The squire would sometimes carry the knight’s flag into battle with his master.
Squire is the second solo album by Alan Hull. Recorded at Morgan Studios December 1974 & January 1975 except "Waiting" which was recorded at Trident Studios with Roy Baker in March 1973. Squire was released on Warner Brothers, K56121, in 1975. Information taken from the cover of the album, bought on release in 1975.
All songs written by Alan Hull (©Hazy Music); except "Nuthin' Shakin'" (Eddie Fontaine, Cirino Colacrai, Diane Lampert, John Gluck, Jr., ©Jewel Music)
Squire is the third book in the series Protector of the Small by fantasy author Tamora Pierce. It details Keladry of Mindelan's (Kel's) continuing quest for knighthood.
Squire tells the story of Keladry of Mindelan's years as a squire, between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. Having passed the "big examinations", Kel becomes a squire without a knight-master. While she becomes frustrated at waiting for offers from knights, her best friend, Nealan of Queenscove, becomes squire to Alanna the Lioness, the first lady knight in Tortall, and Kel's personal hero.
While Kel is disappointed at not becoming the Lioness's squire, she shortly receives an equally prestigious offer from Lord Raoul of Goldenlake, commander of the elite King's Own and a personal friend to the Lioness. As Lord Raoul's squire, she travels with the King's Own and participates in routine duties ranging from chasing rogue centaurs to helping to rebuilt villages afflicted by natural disasters such as mudslides. Along the way, Kel acquires a baby griffin from the bandits who kidnapped him from his parents' nest. Due to the high incidence of kidnapping immature griffins for their magical powers, griffin parents attack any human who has ever touched one of their offspring, so this task is not without its dangers.
Shake! is an album by the blues-rock group the Siegel–Schwall Band. Their third album, it was released in 1968 by Vanguard Records as a vinyl LP. It was later re-released as a CD, also on the Vanguard label.
Shake! was the group's last album to feature Jack Dawson on bass guitar and Russ Chadwick on drums.
On Allmusic, Cub Koda wrote, "Shake! was probably the group's second best album and certainly the one that came the closest to representing their live act.... Lots of fun and fireworks on this one, the sound of a band at the top of their game."
Shake is the first solo album released by John Schlitt, lead singer of the Christian rock band Petra. It was released in the Spring of 1995.
A shake is an informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds, or 10−8seconds. It has applications in nuclear physics, helping to conveniently express the timing of various events in a nuclear explosion. The typical time required for one step in the chain reaction (i.e. the typical time for each neutron to cause a fission event which releases more neutrons) is of order 1 shake, and the chain reaction is typically complete by 50 to 100 shakes.
This is also applicable to circuits. Since signal progression in IC chips is very rapid, on the order of nanoseconds, a shake is good measure of how quickly a signal can progress through an IC.
Like many nuclear units, it is derived from Top Secret operations of the Manhattan Project during World War II. The word comes from the expression "two shakes of a lamb's tail," which indicates a very short time interval. For nuclear-bomb designers, 10 nanoseconds was a convenient specific interval to connect to this term.
It has been discussed at length that the oldest documented usage of the phrase "two shakes of a lamb's tail" can be found within the compiled works of Richard Harris Barham called The Ingoldsby Legends.
I just wanna disappear
And run far away from here
Push all my problems to the side
Cause thees nothing left for me to hide
I just wanna break away
From everyone of my mistakes
Bet all my chances on regret
Start a new life and forget cause
Everywhere I turn I find myself in the same situations
That I've tried to avoid one too many times
And maybe it's time for me to just move on with my life
But first I'm gonna shake this town tonight
For the last time I'll leave it all behind
Because I promised myself the world this time
I just wanna wake up from this bad dream
Take flight on who I really wanna be
And I still got some tricks up my sleeve
And I'm hoping they take me to where I wanna be
I'm over this stupid town
Same faces same places
Where everyone meets to let loose
But god knows thats not me
And I've been trying to get up from the moment that I fell
Never count on luck because I know it always fails me
Everywhere I turn I find myself in the same situations
That I've tried to avoid one too many times
And maybe it's time for me to just move on with my life
But first I'm gonna shake this town tonight
For the last time I'll leave it all behind
Because I promised myself the world this time
I just wanna wake up from this bad dream
Take flight on who I really wanna be
And I still got some tricks up my sleeve
And I'm hoping they take me to where I wanna be
But first I'm gonna shake this town tonight
For the last time I'll leave it all behind
Because I promised myself the world this time
I just wanna wake up from this bad dream
Take flight on who I really wanna be
And I still got some tricks up my sleeve
And I'm hoping they take me to where I wanna be
But first I'm gonna shake this town tonight
For the last time I'll leave it all behind
Because I promised myself the world this time
I just wanna wake up from this bad dream
Take flight on who I really wanna be
And I still got some tricks up my sleeve