Kiss of the Whip

Monday, 4 November 2019, 9:38.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Y’all may get the wrong idea about me but…m’eh! It’s called RESEARCH! On my shelves, sitting right next to the earlier “Kinky Boots” book recommendation, is this one. The Kiss of the Whip, the Horrors of Centuries of Whipping. All those vicars who lived here before me will be shaking their heads in despair.

Goosey, Goosey, Gander

Monday, 4 November 2019, 7:35.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Uh, oh. I’ve just been goosed. Have very dare you? Goosey goosey gander, Whither shall I wander? Upstairs and downstairs And in my lady’s chamber. There I met an old man Who wouldn’t say his prayers, So I took him by his left leg And threw him down the stairs Nursery rhyme first “recorded” in […]

OTTOMAN WARSHIPS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN ARMADA OF 1538

Monday, 4 November 2019, 4:25.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The Anonymous Venetian? Oooh. The plot thickeneth, forsooth and perchance? :o) OTTOMAN WARSHIPS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN ARMADA OF 1538

Dragut

Friday, 1 November 2019, 16:01.Reading time 2 minutes.

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 […]

Venice Morphing

Friday, 1 November 2019, 15:37.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Don’t blink watching the Video. I know we only have a 4 second attention span now. TRY to stretch it all the way to 7 seconds! From Venice Atlas : VENETIAN CARTOGRAPHY

Ancient Venetian Bronze Cannons preserved in Istanbul

Friday, 1 November 2019, 15:07.Reading time less than 1 minute.

When your own world implodes… …just fire a cannon back. Not read. USELESS Actual Historian. M’eh Ancient Venetian bronze cannons preserved in Istanbul

Burke & Hare

Thursday, 31 October 2019, 9:25.Reading time less than 1 minute.

How about a wee bit of grave robbing for Halloween? Discover with Pajerico Happy Samhain to those weirdos like me who understand ;o) From : Goddess and the Green Man

BTW…

Thursday, 31 October 2019, 6:06.Reading time less than 1 minute.

…If you are reading the Americans in the Levant pdf – Trabzon is TREBIZOND I love it :o)

Another Genoa, Genoa, Genoa Moment!

Thursday, 31 October 2019, 5:58.Reading time 1 minute.

I had a feeling way back when that Genoa was important. I’m getting an upside down/back to front vibe from this. But, it is another step forward. From Americans in the Levant : Demetrio Vivaldi, the future consul of Caffa (Feodosia, Black Sea), in a letter sent from Chios to Genoa in August […]

Full Access Granted

Wednesday, 30 October 2019, 15:34.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I really should STOP having so much fun. My Bad. Lady Mary is granted full access. Wiki : 1725 Hungarian House 12th January 2019 : Elizabeth Bathory Adore this song :o)

Americans and the Ottoman Navy in the Levant during the first half of the XIX century

Wednesday, 30 October 2019, 15:03.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Again. Shoddy research on my part. Drop in, throw out. I’ve not had time to read but…. Americans and the Ottoman Navy in the Levant during the first half of the XIX century P.S. That was a disclaimer above. I Seriously haven’t had time to read it so I can neither confirm nor […]

The Sun Always Shines on TV

Wednesday, 30 October 2019, 13:44.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Yeh. I know. It doesn’t. TV’s there to fill a “hole in your soul.” Oh. No. Scandinavian vibe going on. Norway. Sweden. Bloody Vikings. Tsk. Talking of which – I had NO IDEA that Owen B was Norse too. D’oh. The things I don’t know are….! Anyhoo – Magnificent Morten. Aha aha I like it […]

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