“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Anyone who has ever read Dorothy Dunnett knows the name Dragut Reis. Wiki : Dragut THE UNCROWNED KING OF THE MEDITERRANEAN: DRAGUT REIS Abstract: Undoubtedly the heir of Barbarossa in the Mediterranean was Dragut Reis. Following the foot prints of Barbarossa, Dragut tried to construct a system between the Ottoman capital and the […]
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At a really low point in my life, I read this book. Yes. It was witty. Funny. Never thought it would come back to haunt me on Halloween! One of the bestselling memoirs of all time, David Niven’s The Moon’s a Balloon is an account of one of the most remarkable lives Hollywood has ever seen. […]
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OK., peeps. I was/am a trained police person. Not a lawyer. A police person. Boots on the ground. In the thick of the crap. I Understand/Live Rules of Evidence. For MONTHS, I’ve tracked/watched/noted/seen/documented the EVIDENCE. What’s now clear is… …the onus of proof. Not a MOOT point. Argue all you effin’ want. The footprints are there. […]
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Below is Lady Mary’s letter home written in 1716. She’s travelled from England. She will get to Constantinople soon. At the moment she is writing about Trajan’s Gate. Something feels a little strange about her letters, methinks. Oh. At least she does not complain about the state of the roads. In fact, she’s quite complimentary. […]
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What’s a Divvy? To many it’s an airhead/stupid person etc. But – if you’ve ever read or watched Lovejoy – Divvy is actually short for DIVINER. In the Jonathan Gash books, and maybe not in the TV series (?) there’s a book mentioned several times. Antiques or Fakes by Charles H Hayward Now Lovejoy is […]
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I loved this book when I first read it. I’m loving it even more now :o) Attempting to put the sense of smell on the historical map, the author of this book conveys the power that smells – from the seductress’s civet to the ubiquitous excremental odours of city cesspools – exercized over the […]
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Again with the old 17th century France research. Wiki : Cimetière des Saints-Innocents The history books say that the soil there was so rich (!) it could consume a cadaver in seven days! This links with more of my past searches. Wiki : Cour des miracles Always with the “gypsy” slums. […]
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I have this book :o) The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called ‘courtly love’ and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual […]
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When I had my shop selling vintage clothes, I had a display of mine own books behind the counter. I was STUNNED at how many women offered me money to buy this book. Despite the big Not For Sale Sign. LMAO now. Since the dawn of western fashion in the Middle Ages, women s […]
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Betty Edwards This is a kind of follow on from the last post. Betty Edwards wrote a fabulous book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It’s an artist’s manual but not just for artists. She talks about our two brains. The Left. The Right. And their various functions. Look into it. For me, […]
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…they came from “Ut Queant Laxis,” a well-known hymn of the Middle Ages that was chanted for vespers. Each succeeding line of the song started one note higher than the previous one, so Guido used the first letters of each word of each line: UT queant laxis, REsonare fibris: MIre gestorum , FAmuli tuorum: SOLve, etc. “Ut” was eventually deemed too […]
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Via Gurdjieff If y’all want to know the rest…..Do Your OWN research :o)
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Hidden History Research 