cowper

Slightly OT, but Cowper street in Palo Alto is named after William Cowper.

- - William Cowper >To be of use in the world is the only way to be happy.

I grew up a couple streets over, and spent a lot of time on Cowper because a good friend lived there.

Interesting, I grew up near where Cowper spent his last years, and I assumed it was pronounced pretty much phonetically (assuming you have a norfolk accent).

For a brief period of time, Cowper denied this was possible pointing to Berbers that referred to the structures as idols, but for anyone who knew anything about Roman oil presses, these were fairly commonplace.

Yeah, case in point, I was jogging on Cowper st (wide, 2-lane residential) Tuesday morning and noticed a self-drive Lexus had come to a stop behind a Palo Alto garbage truck that was making its usual stop-go-stop way down the street.

To double-check, I pulled up a British book from 1846, "Printing apparatus for the use of amateurs: containing full and practical instructions for the use of Cowper's parlour printing press" from archive.org.

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.” — Oscar Wilde I try to live my life by this combined with “Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.” — William Cowper.

Speculation was that this was a previously undiscovered Neolithic civilization, in describing the Senams, Cowper wrote "there had been originally no less than eighteen or twenty megalithic trilithons, in a line, each with its massive altar placed before it." Amazingly each altar had an obvious drain trench where blood from the sacrifices flowed.

Cowper even speculated at one point that the builders of these cyclopean structures were involved in the raising of Stonehenge.

Cowper found something incredible, what appeared to be a megalithic structure in Tripoli.

Strange that the article does not seem to mention William Cowper's famous poem.