“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.”
Rewind. Double check. I had to check the date for Agincourt. I had 1314 in mind. Wrong! That was Bannockburn. I’ve gone back to 1213 -The Battle of Damme I tried 1112 – In the Battle of Al-Sannabra (1113), a Crusader army led by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem was … “In 1110, 1112, and 1114 the city of Edessa […]
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Wiki : Kirlian photography . Apologies. Still peed off vibe :o(
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If you’ve not been keeping up. You’ll have no idea. I’m making homemade pizza. No time to explain :o) Wiki : On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
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Wiki : Ariadne Wiki : 39 Steps Or how about Twelve Good Men and True morphed into Twelve Angry Men ? Wake me up when it’s over, Dolores!!!
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I admire the work of Andreu Marfull Pujadas. He has been a great help to me – in many different ways; Andreu Marfull Pujadas X-185 Chronology: Another mental map for the discovery of America
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Coming from generations of sailors, I’m the one who gets seasick most. My bad :o( It’s the only time you’ll ever see me ask/plead for a Coca-Cola. Works for me! Naval warfare in Europe, c . 1330– c . 1680
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One hundred million years ago, give or take an exaggeration or many (!) I spent several Saturdays on my own in Lincoln Cathedral — doing research for my history exam. From Lincolnshire Pride : 3. Construction of the Cathedral is a bit iffy in places! Sacrilege, surely? The Cathedral is beautiful! Well yes, but there’s still […]
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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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About a gajillion years ago, when I was a teenager, I was obsessed with the Gothic genre of books. From Wiki. Do it (research) yourself. The Castle of Otranto is a book by Horace Walpole first published in 1764 and generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word ‘Gothic’ to the novel […]
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A RARE gift. I love John and Caitlin Matthews and their works. Today, another deep love/obsession/joy connected with them.
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…It works for me. History. Myth and Legend etc are my thing. Not this. I’m not qualified to comment on the contents. I’ll read it when I’ve done all the Boring housewifey thingamebobs. Iron Ships. Iron Men
Read MoreFFS. OK. I know. Humour and Humbility (as M.Poirot calls it) are better than their bombs and their guns and their guns and their bombs but…there is a limit on the BS meter. Apologies, sincere and undiluted, to the maker of this. You say Drag – ut. I say Drag- oo. But I could be […]
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