Sur le Pont d’Avignon

Chorus: Sur le Pont d’Avignon L’on y danse, l’on y danse Sur le Pont d’Avignon L’on y danse tous en rond. On the bridge of Avignon We’re all dancing, we’re all dancing On the bridge of Avignon We’re all dancing round and round.  

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Very Telling Words

From the recent shared pdf…   Then too, the accelerated discussions of the Donation of Constantine (such as the origin of imperial power, the basis of papal authority over temporals, the pope and the transfer of empire, the pope‟s claims to Rome and the patrimony) since the eleventh century kept alive the issue of the […]

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The Scots Language (or Dialect?!)

My sincere apologies to the maker of this video. But… …! Now. No. I don’t speak Gaelic (btw-and I could be very wrong here-but I thought Scots was GAY-lic and Irish was GA-lic.) Shrug. By the by the way – I know Geordies. Lowlanders and Highlanders.

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Ptolemy I Soter

Ptolemy I as Pharaoh of Egypt, British Museum, London Founder of the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt which lasted 275 years – until the death of Cleopatra by some snaky business. Oh. And he was Alexander of Macedon’s General and Historian. Busy, busy pharaoh dude :o)   Wiki : Ptolemy I Soter    

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Babylon on the Rhone

It’s very weird how one thing can lead to another! I started with Dante and Beatrice (Bee-a-tree-chay…oops. Done that one.) and ended up in the Babylonian Captivity. Shrug. Wiki : Dante Wiki : Beatrice Portinari   O all ye passing by along Love’s way, attend a while and see if there be sorrow such as […]

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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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The Long Haired Kings

aka The Merovingian. Wiki : Merovingian dynasty France got the Dynasty. England got the Empire, ? Booyakasha

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Gaius Octavius

Wiki : Augustus Bloody Romans. What did they ever do for us? From SparkNotes :   Octavius Caesar Ocatavius Caesar is both a menacing adversary for Antony and a rigid representation of Roman law and order. He is not a two-dimensional villain, though, since his frustrations with the ever-neglectful Antony seem justified. When he complains […]

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Alexander the Macedon

OK. In my usual roundabout, weird way – I’ve finally reached the destination. Macedonia/Serbia I’m feeling a great need now to look into the Ptolemaic Pharoahs via…..?!? “We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.”   […]

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In the Dark About The Dark Ages?

A nice, concise explanation from NC :   Let’s skip the indefinite period up to the IXth century. After this, begins a new chapter in the history of China allegedly from 860 to the year 960 AD. That is approximately 100 years of darkness. L.N. Gumilev calls it “the dark age” and builds some geophysical […]

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Very Important Historical Point

NC (in the excerpt below) makes this V.I.H.P. Basically – the damage had Already been done before they decided to play jiggery pokery with Chinese history. It makes sense to me :o)   The landmarks of the parallelism between the Chinese and the phantom European history before the X century A. D.   We haven’t […]

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