Read it. And Weep

Wednesday, 23 October 2019, 13:19.Reading time less than 1 minute.

26 April 2019 : Wordless The Hidden History of the Comnenus. If y’all don’t “get it” then….!!!!!

Back to le Brun via Antarctica

Wednesday, 23 October 2019, 7:53.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Under his supervision, eleven ships of the line, four frigates and two transport ships were built in Russia. And in particular, the two ships of the first Russian Antarctic Expedition of Bellinghausen and Lazarev : the “Vostok” and the “Mirnyi” Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen Mikhaïl Lazarev

Oh! That’ll Be WHY, Then!

Wednesday, 23 October 2019, 6:43.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It had less to do with nationality and more to do with brains. The Empire had the “clever” ones. The EggHeads. The very best of the best Scientists, Engineers and Doctors etc. And the Romanov hijacked them.

Jacques Balthazar Brun of St. Catherine

Wednesday, 23 October 2019, 5:06.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A few days ago I posted – ALL ROADS LED TO… There was a name in there that I recognised from my research into 17th century France. So I went to check it. The wrong le Brun but… Let’s try this one Wiki : Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte-Catherine There seems to be a theme […]

All Roads Led To…

Monday, 21 October 2019, 4:39.Reading time 1 minute.

…Shakespeare. Well, in my world anyway. The following was written by a British Admiral/Pasha serving in the Turkish Navy. “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to […]

Devletli, İsmetli, Nakşidil Valide Sultan Aliyyetü’ş-şân Hazretler

Sunday, 20 October 2019, 11:30.Reading time less than 1 minute.

She has fascinated me for many years. One day I’ll get to the bottom of this story :o)

Don’t Panic

Sunday, 20 October 2019, 9:37.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Four books found. Written by a 19th c “British” Sir who served as Pasha (Admiral) in the TURKISH Navy…writing about the Scots who served in the Imperial Navy. Light at the end of the tunnel or counting chickens? Time will tell.

Deeper and Deeper

Sunday, 20 October 2019, 9:02.Reading time 1 minute.

Flag of Trebizond Wiki : Thomas MacKenzie The Highlander who founded Sevastopol. Khouter MacKenzie, in the Crimea, is so named from Admiral MacKenzie, who. commanded the Black Sea fleet under Katherine II, and fortified Sebastopol. In 1738 MacKenzie of Conansby was a colonel under the Empress Anne, and Captain MacKenzie of Redcastle, another […]

La Rambla, Barcelona

Saturday, 19 October 2019, 13:03.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Why? Why? Why? Am I stuck in Spain? Or Catalonia to be more precise? I Dunno! G O A W A Y F R E D D I E Wiki : La Rambla, Barcelona

John Elphinstone

Saturday, 19 October 2019, 8:16.Reading time 1 minute.

Wiki : John Elphinstone I’m going round in circles here! I’m very well aware that I have a subjective POV but…Things just are not adding up. So. We have John Elphinstone, an Orkney man, working closely with Samuel Greig, a Fife man, in the Imperial Navy. Both are under the command of — Wiki : […]

Leghorn

Friday, 18 October 2019, 15:03.Reading time less than 1 minute.

OK. This gets weirder by the day! Still investigating my ancestors and I came across this strange but connected fact… LEGHORN. What does it mean? Let’s go to the all-seeing – Wiki : Livorno Now. What does that have to do with the 1770’s, the Romanov, Scotland. the Imperial Navy and the Admiral? Go away […]

The Octave of Salvation

Friday, 18 October 2019, 6:26.Reading time 1 minute.

…they came from “Ut Queant Laxis,” a well-known hymn of the Middle Ages that was chanted for vespers. Each succeeding line of the song started one note higher than the previous one, so Guido used the first letters of each word of each line: UT queant laxis, REsonare fibris: MIre gestorum , FAmuli tuorum: SOLve, etc. “Ut” was eventually deemed too […]

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.