René Descartes

3.4. Same as before.   Sharp as fluffy cotton wool ball. Sheeeesh!   Download came for why I was guided back to the 17th c. To debunk the fake history?   Wiki : Renay Day- Car   Puhlease. Do NOT send me back 100 years to Michel de Montaigne. Oh. Fluff it :o(   P.S. […]

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La Gazette

Weave a Garland of my Vows by Greta Brookes

Diving back into the 17th c with Don Quicks Oat has just reminded me of something!!!   Wiki : La Gazette   There are links here. Trust me. Marie de Rohan was regularly “exiled” from France. All her lands were sequestered by Richelieu. One of her exiles was a very long journey with two faithful […]

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If THIS Song TRIGGERS U – Your Problem. Not Mine ;o)

Simple Minds The American. That is YOUR problem!!!!! DO NOT shoot the Messenger. She loves you.  ‘Rats, lice and Scotsmen, you find them everywhere!’  I know that quote ALL too well and have used it. See below. Below. Below…       And – I had great fun writing this scene. With Wat Montagu and Robert Lamont. […]

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Siege of La Rochelle

The Mills of God Grind….Oooops. Done that! Wiki : La Rochelle I researched this inside out, up and down, backwards and forwards. They besieged were forced to boil saddles, eat cats, dogs, rats…Children(?!?) to survive. Ahem. Why? Because Marie de Rohan’s family were half Catholic and half Huguenot. Her uncles were called Soubise and Henri, […]

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ForeShadowing

Weave a Garland of my Vows by Greta Brookes

This was inspired by Mr SitA. TY :o) I’m a WRITER. I write HISFIC novels. I’ve studied both the Art & the Craft of writing. Me, myself and I totally understand FORESHADOWING   Definition of Foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing often appears […]

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CLASSIC Russian Literature : Crime & Punishment

This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky’s ‘psychological record of a crime’ gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders alone through the slums of St. Petersburg, deliriously imagining himself above society’s laws. But […]

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Edgar – King of Scotland

Edgar was certainly not heir by primogeniture, as later kings would be, since Duncan II had a legitimate son and heir in the person of William fitz Duncan.[7] With Donald and Edmund removed, however, Edgar was uncontested king of Scots, and his reign incurred no major crisis. Compared with his rise to power, Edgar’s reign is obscure. One […]

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Back to MY Roots

Another strange day. One that has made me think long and hard. It’s not in my nature to go backwards. I live today and dream of tomorrow but… …if this past year has taught me anything, it’s that I was on the Right Track originally. FFS! I’d even mapped out a whole life story for […]

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The Legend of Black Vaughan

Hereford’s Diocesan Exorcist must encounter a legacy of evil within the crumbling walls of an old hotel along with memories of murder… ‘Merrily has become an ever more engaging protagonist, a passionate, flawed modern women every bit as concerned with the intricacies of crime as she is with demons that go bump in the night.’ […]

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Welsh Word of the Day – Teulu

Or… …If you are as steeped in 12thC Welsh History as I am. Warband. Them Ravens are a-talking again :o) TAY-lee

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Mozhaysk Mudflood?

And I quote….   In 1999-2000, during the archaeological and restoration work, the builders removed two-meter land strata throughout the entire space of the Luzhetsky monastery.   …we present a photograph of 2000 taken in the Luzhetsk monastery after the removal of the upper layers of the earth. The thickness of the removed layers is […]

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The Powers that Came to Be…

It’s looking as if those powers that took over our world were in a bit of a hurry to escape all aspects of the “Tartar-Mongol Yoke.” It’s like a soul that has lost it’s other half. A world that has lost it’s other half??? I’m on a lonely eagle binge today :o)       […]

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