Lavinia and Lucretia

SparkNotes Character Analysis of Lavinia in Titus Andronicus:   Lavinia –  The only daughter of Titus Andronicus, she spurns Saturninus’s offer to make her his empress because she is in love with Bassianus. She is brutally raped and disfigured by Chiron and Demetrius in the forest during the hunt. Thereafter, she is a mute and horrifying […]

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Stephen the Protomartyr

From Wikiwhatev’s:   Stephen is first mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles as one of seven deacons appointed by the Apostles to distribute food and charitable aid to poorer members of the community in the early church. According to Orthodox belief, he was the eldest and is therefore called “archdeacon”.[4] As another deacon, Nicholas of Antioch, is specifically stated to have […]

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“Most Sacrilegious Murder…” said by MacDuff

I’ve always been more of a Baconian than an Oxfordian. Then they threw in Mary Sidney and the whole ‘Who wrote Shakespeare?’ argument started again. I’m soooo over that now. All I know is – whoever wrote the plays was a Genius. With a capital Gee! I especially love Macbeth…..The Scottish Play. NC have done […]

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Big Sigh….

Woohoo! Great Video Observation Deck. Bring it on :o)      

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Tartaria -1670 Map

Source – New Chronology via Googlation     The map is extremely interesting and well meets our reconstruction. To begin with, the map is called the Great Tataria, that is, MONGOLO-TATARIA. Because the word “Mongol” means “great.” According to the map, the Great Tataria included not only the Russian Empire, in the modern sense of the word, but […]

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Legendary Damascene Steel

Original Damascus Steel is beautiful and coveted, supposedly ancient and legendary and now a lost knowledge. It’s manufacture is strongly linked with Syria (it’s in the name!) but did you know that the Cossacks were famous for their Damascus Steel swords, sabres, shields and chain-mail armour? The Cossacks had a fearsome reputation. Their weapons could […]

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Why did the Tartarians build Labyrinths?

Nope…I don’t know either. But I’m beginning to realise that the Tartarians did, in fact, build some All?) of the world’s most famous Labyrinths. I’ve been reading Herodotus, Book Two, Egypt. (Yawn!) He says of the famous Egyptian Labyrinth, which surpassed the pyramids: “It has twelve covered courts — six in a row facing north, […]

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Empty San Francisco – 1848

This drawing shows an empty, barely inhabited San Francisco in 1848. Then – magically – after just 10 years…   San Fran (1858) is a busy, bustling port and city. Yes, I know. They are just drawings but these drawings appeared in books. They were the mass-mind-control section of the massive re-writing of American History […]

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Treaty of Tordesillas – 1494

The Treaty of Tordesillas is a bit of an historical anomaly. It makes no sense. Why…or rather…How could Portugal and Castile, with the help of Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) divide the whole world between themselves? So they draw a line on a map, running through the Atlantic from north to south. East of the […]

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Back with the Mamelukes…

Please read the previous post first – Why were the Mamelukes annihilated in 1811? Who were the Mamelukes? As the post before this stated – they were European Christians, not Egyptian/Arab/Turks. Having double-checked my mad theory, I can now state with confidence that the Mameluke Dynasty that ruled Egypt for over 400 years were in […]

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Why were the Mamelukes Annihilated in 1811?

OK – Second question first. Who were the Mamelukes? As always, there is the ever un-reliable Wiki, Mamluk This wikiwhatever page is strangely similar to the one about the Janissaries!     The history books tell us that the Mamelukes were the Islamic rulers of medieval Egypt. Former Caucasian slaves, they took power in around […]

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Roxelana Sultana

I’m still on the Dorothy Dunnett vibe. Out of the six Lymond Chronicles, Pawn in Frankincense is my favourite. It’s partly why I know a bit about the Ottoman Empire and Constantinople. Lymond is causing havoc around the Mediterranean, especially in the court of Suleiman the Magnificent and his powerful wife, Roxelana. I was delighted […]

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