“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.”
I used to live a hop and a skip away from… Wiki : Boscombe Down And two hops and a skip away from… Wiki : Porton Down Such a shame that Wiki has forgotten all and everything about True Truth. Alice. Don’t go THERE, sweetheart :o(
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. […]
Well. This one has blown me away. I understand now why I mentioned Nakşidil Sultan, in passing, the other day. She has a connection to le Brun via Selim III (previous posts) And the common denominator is… Napoleon Bonaparte. It’s all a bit twisty turny right now. But I’ll get there :o)
OMG! Le Brun came from CATHAR country. How very dare I be so annoyingly annoying to certain people. M’eh. Housewives CAN multi-task, I guess. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN ;O)
Under his supervision, eleven ships of the line, four frigates and two transport ships were built in Russia. And in particular, the two ships of the first Russian Antarctic Expedition of Bellinghausen and Lazarev : the “Vostok” and the “Mirnyi” Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen Mikhaïl Lazarev
It had less to do with nationality and more to do with brains. The Empire had the “clever” ones. The EggHeads. The very best of the best Scientists, Engineers and Doctors etc. And the Romanov hijacked them.
A few days ago I posted – ALL ROADS LED TO… There was a name in there that I recognised from my research into 17th century France. So I went to check it. The wrong le Brun but… Let’s try this one Wiki : Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte-Catherine There seems to be a theme […]
…Shakespeare. Well, in my world anyway. The following was written by a British Admiral/Pasha serving in the Turkish Navy. “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to […]