Time Warp

A Message to all and Every Tartarian Princess who is waiting for her Prince to come. Tartary was ruled by Emperors and Empresses. An EMPRESS waits for No – One. She can and does RULE alone. DO Y’ALL GET IT YET???  

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Polyarchy, The Mother of Anarchy

Wiki : Polyarchy   I’m finding this intro to Choniates work quite interesting. An earthquake in  1162? A comet in 1182 that FORETOLD the end of Andronicus I Comnenus?      

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Zoé Oldenbourg

Oh What a Circus, Oh What a Show?! Watching David Wells’ video just now reminded me of a book wot I have, that I’ve been mining for my next post on the Cathars. A don’t-hold-your-breath-vibe :o( What a co-inky-dink? What’s in a name of the game?   A best-selling history of the Third Crusade, when […]

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The Norman Theory

There are plenty of sources out there “explaining” The Norman Theory. A Good Place to start is — Encyclopedia of Ukraine   I’ve covered bits of 1066 and all that here. Let’s see what NC has to say about The Norman Theory :   It should be abandoned the idea that the chronicle records that […]

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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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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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Wide Eyed & Clueless

I got there. Eventually. Celebrate. Oh. Now I am actually “there” — —What do I have to do? Where to go? Hello. Excuse me. Jumping up and down here. I paid for the ALL IN PACKAGE.  Where is my luggage? Where is the Tour Guide???   Shrug. Let’s see where this road leads :o)   […]

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The Cryptic Clue

As said in The Hound of the Baskervilles : We hold several threads in our hands and the odds are that one or the other – guides us to the truth. I had to use both West and East parts of the map :o)    

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Fast Backwards

Time and Tide etc… Quick History Reset and then I can get to the place I’m headed!   “Ivan Samuilovich Greig (1776–1802), traveled to China but was never heard of again.”   No bloody wonder he got lost, never heard of again. China was jam-packed with Tartars, Turks and  Eastern Europeans!!   From NC : […]

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The Huns

Raphael’s The Meeting between Leo the Great and Attila depicts Pope Leo I, escorted by Saint Peter and Saint Paul, meeting with the Hun emperor outside Rome   To get where I want to be, I’m being forced to Go West – Backwards. From China to Eastern Europe. From NC:   The “ancient” Chinese Hungarians. The nation of the Huns was quite prominent […]

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John Keats

I’ve been reading Keat’s poem, Endymion. I’d started looking into Perseus but came across this and went off the rails, as per!   Endymion, iv …“Over wide streams and mountains great we went, And, save when Bacchus kept his ivy tent, Onward the tiger and the leopard pants,                     With Asian elephants: Onward these myriads—-with song […]

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