| 1. | The alternative in politics to a weather vane is a rudder.
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| 2. | Weather vanes were made from anything that the wind would blow,
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| 3. | There was also Henry Vane, Winthrop's political rival.
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| 4. | They are long and some have asymmetrical vanes like flight feathers,
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| 5. | Vane managed the debates on behalf of the House of Commons.
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| 6. | Mobs in Presbyterian-dominated London threatened Vane and other Independents.
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| 7. | The weather vane only requires a 5 knot wind to rotate.
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| 8. | Vane was replaced by Winthrop, who then served three terms.
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| 9. | The vane probably survived the fall of the tower in 1811.
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| 10. | This lasted until 1914, when Vane was called to war.
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