Penisolate war

• peninsular war → penisolate war
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• Peninsular War: a major conflict during the Napoleonic Wars (1808–1814), fought in the Iberian Peninsula with Spanish rebels, Portugal, and the British allied against the French. The Duke of Wellington (HCE) fought in this conflict
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• penis in isolation → masturbation → ancient Egyptian creation myth in which the primordial god Atum masturbates the world into existence
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• pen-isolate: Joyce, a writer in exile, may have felt that his pen was isolated after the rigours of publishing Ulysses, and with the writing of the Wake his style is very much isolated from that of mainstream literature

• Howth: a peninsula close to Dublin city
  • on 10 August 1177, the Norman warlord Sir Armory (or Almeric) Tristram supposedly conquered Howth from its Hiberno-Norse occupants in a battle fought near the Bridge of Evora, which crosses a stream that was renamed the "Bloody Stream" after the battle. (Evora is also the name of a Portugeuse seaport whose populaton was massacred by the French when the rebelled against French rule during the Peninsular War)
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• Peloponnesian War: : war fought between Sparta and Athens and their allies in the fifth century BCE. The Peloponnese was a peninsula separated from mainland Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth
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• penicillate: resembling or pertaining to a pencil or paint-brush

• isola: (Italian) isle; island

• isolate: Isolde, or Issy
  • Penisolate: HCE's sexual interest in his daughter Issy

• penisolate: penis of late