“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.”
Anyone who has ever read Dorothy Dunnett knows the name Dragut Reis. Wiki : Dragut THE UNCROWNED KING OF THE MEDITERRANEAN: DRAGUT REIS Abstract: Undoubtedly the heir of Barbarossa in the Mediterranean was Dragut Reis. Following the foot prints of Barbarossa, Dragut tried to construct a system between the Ottoman capital and the […]
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Don’t blink watching the Video. I know we only have a 4 second attention span now. TRY to stretch it all the way to 7 seconds! From Venice Atlas : VENETIAN CARTOGRAPHY
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When your own world implodes… …just fire a cannon back. Not read. USELESS Actual Historian. M’eh Ancient Venetian bronze cannons preserved in Istanbul
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…If you are reading the Americans in the Levant pdf – Trabzon is TREBIZOND I love it :o)
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I had a feeling way back when that Genoa was important. I’m getting an upside down/back to front vibe from this. But, it is another step forward. From Americans in the Levant : Demetrio Vivaldi, the future consul of Caffa (Feodosia, Black Sea), in a letter sent from Chios to Genoa in August […]
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I really should STOP having so much fun. My Bad. Lady Mary is granted full access. Wiki : 1725 Hungarian House 12th January 2019 : Elizabeth Bathory Adore this song :o)
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Yeh. I know. It doesn’t. TV’s there to fill a “hole in your soul.” Oh. No. Scandinavian vibe going on. Norway. Sweden. Bloody Vikings. Tsk. Talking of which – I had NO IDEA that Owen B was Norse too. D’oh. The things I don’t know are….! Anyhoo – Magnificent Morten. Aha aha I like it […]
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I’ve been looking at his pictures. Along with the V&A, I need to re-visit the National Gallery. I could spend a whole month there just gazing, wide-eyed and breathless. But I always seem to go with peeps on fast forward. Sigh. Wiki : Paolo Caliari Adoration of the Magi
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Below is Lady Mary’s letter home written in 1716. She’s travelled from England. She will get to Constantinople soon. At the moment she is writing about Trajan’s Gate. Something feels a little strange about her letters, methinks. Oh. At least she does not complain about the state of the roads. In fact, she’s quite complimentary. […]
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What’s a Divvy? To many it’s an airhead/stupid person etc. But – if you’ve ever read or watched Lovejoy – Divvy is actually short for DIVINER. In the Jonathan Gash books, and maybe not in the TV series (?) there’s a book mentioned several times. Antiques or Fakes by Charles H Hayward Now Lovejoy is […]
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And Lady Mary too! Yup. It’s all there in the “history” books. Early 18th century. And – it’s written in stone too. They did it!!!! A Pox on them.
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Wiki : Pozzolana Puzzolana mortar (puzolan harcı) was composed of puzzolana85 and lime. It quickly hardened under water. In fact, this material (also called ‘Roman cement’) had long been used widely in underwater construction before the introduction of cement (Aksoy 1982, 73), especially in European hydraulic architecture during the eighteenth century (Merino 1985, 47).
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