“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.”
Four books found. Written by a 19th c “British” Sir who served as Pasha (Admiral) in the TURKISH Navy…writing about the Scots who served in the Imperial Navy. Light at the end of the tunnel or counting chickens? Time will tell.
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Flag of Trebizond Wiki : Thomas MacKenzie The Highlander who founded Sevastopol. Khouter MacKenzie, in the Crimea, is so named from Admiral MacKenzie, who. commanded the Black Sea fleet under Katherine II, and fortified Sebastopol. In 1738 MacKenzie of Conansby was a colonel under the Empress Anne, and Captain MacKenzie of Redcastle, another […]
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Why? Why? Why? Am I stuck in Spain? Or Catalonia to be more precise? I Dunno! G O A W A Y F R E D D I E Wiki : La Rambla, Barcelona
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Wiki : John Elphinstone I’m going round in circles here! I’m very well aware that I have a subjective POV but…Things just are not adding up. So. We have John Elphinstone, an Orkney man, working closely with Samuel Greig, a Fife man, in the Imperial Navy. Both are under the command of — Wiki : […]
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OK. This gets weirder by the day! Still investigating my ancestors and I came across this strange but connected fact… LEGHORN. What does it mean? Let’s go to the all-seeing – Wiki : Livorno Now. What does that have to do with the 1770’s, the Romanov, Scotland. the Imperial Navy and the Admiral? Go away […]
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…they came from “Ut Queant Laxis,” a well-known hymn of the Middle Ages that was chanted for vespers. Each succeeding line of the song started one note higher than the previous one, so Guido used the first letters of each word of each line: UT queant laxis, REsonare fibris: MIre gestorum , FAmuli tuorum: SOLve, etc. “Ut” was eventually deemed too […]
Read MoreIt was (apparently) in Vienna that Elizabeth Bathory – The Blood Countess – started her murderous career. FALCO…Lindsey Davis Doch ihn liebten alle Frauen LOL
Read MoreShoot. This is a bit of a personal downer. Dad’s birthday was 5th July (the crematorium day) The 6th was me and my brothers interring his urn on top of Mum’s. I can publicise dead parents too, love. ;o)
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And the crowd goes wild. She did it! Stupid Barbarians. Black Death?
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Watershed of the Oxus River in the 8th century, showing Transoxiana and its principal localities to the northeast. New Word of the Day from page 3 of my latest source. Of course, I had to look it up. GoodOldWiki : Transoxiana Will she make it to page 4? That is the question!
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A brilliant source just “fell” in my lap. It starts with this quote : So I looked up the book… The modern classic from double Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee – soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny Depp For decades the Magistrate has run the […]
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In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Scottish merchants spread in hordes all over Prussia and Poland as traders, but few ventured further east to Russia. In the reign of Ivan Vassilievitch (The Terrible) the English spirit of adventure- which had formed The Society for the Discovery of Unknown Lands which focused on Russia for trade […]
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