Euterpe

And there was me thinking that Euterpe has forsaken me. Nah :o)  

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Back to Basics

Pardon Me but… I’m a little (?!) perplexed (!?)  by the current obsession with the lack of bathrooms in Old Buildings. It’s Not Difficult.  Wiki : Close Stool   Or if you want to be Fancy. Chaise Percée Peasants like me know it as a gazunder. To get even more basic – Wiki : Groom […]

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From A to B

I’m pretty simple. As long as I get from here to there…and back…I’m happy. The things I don’t know are legion. Though I do know it costs less that a nice, fancy box of chocolates to fill a 4×4 Land Cruiser fuel tank in the UAE. 1968 Indy Turbine Tech Belongs OUT of a Museum […]

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Gazunder

A chamber pot for the collection of faeces and urine, so called because it gazunder the bed.   Another brain boggle. There are so many people harping on about there being no bathrooms in old places/buildings/hotels/Versailles. It is SIMPLE. A PO. Chamberpot. Gazunder. Sheesh. Give me a break. Gardez l’eau, anyone (!?) Plain Sight, ANYONE (!?)  

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Anacaona

By George. I think she’s got it! Wiki : Anacaona   I won’t even bother with a wikiwtf about Jehanne d’Arc. A story too well known. At the risk of repeating myself…M’eh. Witches were Hanged. Pictures are Hung. Anacaona was hanged.   Yep. Rewind. But notice all that FIRE? Two Female Warriors. Both betrayed by […]

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Hengist and Horsa and Vortigern

Hengist from John Speed’s 1611 “Saxon Heptarchy”   Wiki : Hengist and Horsa   Truly Boggled is me! The connections here are overwhelming. Two that stand out : Germanic twin brothers and divine Indo-European horse twins   Comnenus – broken down through various languages (previous posts somewhere hereabouts) means Horse    

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INDE = In Another Place

From NC :   Here it should be recalled that, it turns out, INDIA is an old RUSSIAN word, see the book “Empire”. It comes from the INDE dialect already forgotten today, that is – “in another place”, “on the other hand”, “here and there”, “somewhere” [786], p.235. Therefore, INDIA is just a FAR COUNTRY, ABROAD. Then, the […]

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How to Make a Volcano out of a Mountain

Change the dates, the location  and twist the true truth! Easy peasy.   From NC :   Traces of the Ottoman conquest on the pages of chronicles talking about the conquest of America. According to our results described in the book “Bible Russia”, one of the stages of the Ottoman-Ataman conquest, that is, the conquest […]

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Beyond the Pale

Wiki : Pale of Settlement   I learned the TRUE meaning of this phrase from David Suchet. In a documentary.   Wiki : David Suchet   Of Lithuanian Jewish Descent! And he is, absolutely, my Favourite Poirot. BTW. The books sometimes bear no resemblance to the TV/Movie stuff.

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Satchmo

High Society Calypso Bloody Music Vibe!!!!!   He’s got the blues ’cause his wife, alas, Thought writing songs was beneath his class,  

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