“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.”
Grand Duke Cosimo I de Medici was so rich and so famous that he could not walk out in public amongst his plebs…for fear of assassination (?) So he spent squillions to have the also-but-not-quite-as famous Vasari build him an escape route way above the commoners’ heads. It is called – The Vasari Corridor Good […]
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THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER___ ‘An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth. Powerful and shaming.’ GUARDIAN___ Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote […]
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Noli Me Tangere
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I’ve always called him Jürgen the German. Because I can never remember his surname! If you are a Brit, you will KNOW this song. You will KNOW how and why You’ll Never Walk Alone became an anthem. And you’ll KNOW about Liverpool Football Club. ‘Nuff said.
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Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Soissons. The video below just came up in my yt recommended feed. Aha, thunked I. I KNOW that name. Soissons. Let me set the scene for the scene above (?) Richelieu and Louis XIII are in a world of hurt. Louis’ younger brother, Gaston has gone rebel and his second […]
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So. Here am I. Weeks into studying a new subject when some kind and helpful person (?) tells me… D’ya know what THAT means in Italian? Stupid me says – No. I suggest you research both words. You might find a penis! Oh. Blush. Very Red Cheeks :o(
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What is a Census? An historical record of our lives written down on paper or a governmentals psy-op to track and destroy us? I’ve just taken part in a live chat (because I’m feeling Impish today!) where the chittychatterers were all proclaiming their pride at telling the Census Taker to GFHimself!!!! I’m #banned from the […]
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This video has had me totally engrossed all morning. Apart from the beginning where they mummify the sheep! YUK I know a little about Tut and Howard Carter and the finding of the tomb but NOT a huge amount, so I came to this with an open mind. OMGA : The conclusion to the question…Exactly […]
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Thunder only happens when it’s rainin’Players only love you when they’re playin’Say women, they will come and they will goWhen the rain washes you clean, you’ll knowYou’ll know I am NOT any IT’s PLAYTHING. Don’t Play. Won’t Play. I have mine own DREAMS! TarTar :o)
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Last thing before I go and do something much more enjoyable and pleasant. Snakes : can only slither across the ground (3D) Ladders : Let One Climb UP (beyond 3D) Crack On with your Clever Equations, Brilliant (k)No(w) – ledge. zzzzzssssssssssszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! SNAKES and Ladders : Vice and Virtue
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Sad Cypress is a wonderful Poirot book by Agatha Christie. It begins with the quote : “Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid.” From whence cometh this quote? And why “sad” cypress? Well. Sad because : Cypress Wood used to be used to make coffins. And………..Check out 12th Night by […]
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Liminal : relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process/occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold. We all walk the liminal. Because, if we are true to ourselves, we are always at a crossroads. If you understand the above…read the book above the above and research Hecate. […]
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Hidden History Research 