“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.”
…To the U A V show. Y’know when you laugh sooooooo hard that you have to snort. Or else you’ll die? Don’t stop me now… Go away Freddie :o) Zombie Dolores, yer ‘aving a larf, lassie. Debbie Harry? Nope. Out, out damn spot. Gagagagaga! Freddie? Last warning, pal.
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Wow. I had to trawl my archives for that image. Amazon no longer sells the book with this cover! Wiki : Early Slavs Wiki : Red Headed League There’s more. Mummies in China. Hamish Macbeth. Andronicus I Comnenus had red/gold hair Mary Magdalene had red hair, Blahdeblah
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How Does Birnham Wood Come to Dunsinane in Shakespeare’s Macbeth? Credit: Print Collector/Hulton Fine Art Collection/Getty Images In William Shakespeare’s “MacBeth,” Birnham Wood comes to Dunsinane in the form of Malcolm’s army camouflaged with boughs from the trees of the forest. The military action is first suggested by Duncan in Act V, Scene 4, Lines 6-9.When […]
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Flag of the Romani people WikiScmiki: Ruska Roma Wow! Their history – via Wiki – from the beginning of the 19th century. Did someone plant a Ruska Roma seed in a garden and they all sprouted c. 1800?
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…From NC: A natural question arises: how was the Great = “Mongolian” (TARTARIAN?) Empire governed for no less than three hundred years, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries? I like it. After all, if it covered such large spaces, how did Rus-Horde manage to mobilize so many soldiers to colonize vast regions? Simply put, […]
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The image above is from a document that I have condemning astrology. I have a bare knowledge of this “ology” – Myth-ology is more my subject. You can take or leave the Astrology thing but it is old and it was once revered. From Niketas Choniates (who, btw, was not a fan of Andronicus […]
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Zodiac = 12 plus 1. The SUN in the CENTRE. Which – btw – has NOTHING to do with Heliocentric/Geocentric! From NC : We are being told that the constellations of the stars depicted on the Mediaeval and modern star maps were invented in the deepest antiquity. There were some changes occurring over […]
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Well. Tally Hey, Tally Ho. As academia keeps throwing these things at me, I’ll just throw them out yonder whilst Whistling Dixie. The Fall of the Old World
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I’ve read both McNally and Florescu’s biographies of Vlad. M’eh. I keep getting bombarded with these articles…but there is hidden treasure therein :o) Importance of Vlad Tepes and Mehmed II
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Circus : a lot of activity and interest caused by an event or situation Chief of police is the most common title for the head of a local police department. Alternate titles for a chief of police include police commissioner, colonel, police superintendent, police president or police director. In large urban areas, some departments are led by a civilian overseer, usually referred to as […]
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Researching the Mamluk cards, I had a little thought. They have the usual four suits but instead of wands, the staffs are called Polo sticks. Wiki : Polo That makes sense but the “sticks” look, to me, more like Shinty than Polo. Wiki : Shinty Curiouser and curiouser said […]
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This will not be for those who have problems with the ethereal/intangible stuff ‘n’ nonsense in life. But it’s of interest to me on a few levels. In 1927, an incomplete set of playing/tarot cards was found in the Topkapi, Istanbul. I’m reading up the literature – apart from the main book written about this […]
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Hidden History Research 