“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.”
When you think of CARAVAN, what do you see? Maybe this… Or this….. The cartoon above is my summer reality. Our main road is usually all blocked with zillions of ugly white caravans, all en route to the local seaside town. The gypsy caravans are gorgeous. But, for me, a caravan is […]
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Have you ever heard of Chopines? I have. They were all over my 17th century research. One of those bizarre things that I love to look into :o) This is a pair of Chopines. They were The Fashion from about 1400-1700, apparently. Not exclusively female but much associated with courtesans and prostitutes. Why? […]
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Who EXACTLY were the famous Janissaries? Wikiwhatever says this – Janissaries Quote – “They began as an elite corps of slave soldiers made up of kidnapped young Christian boys who were converted to Islam.” Mid to late 1300’s. OK. Whatever. How about this? “Christian/Turk.” In the 14th century there was no such distinction. The Great Empire […]
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Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. So much that is good and beautiful in our lives has been twisted. For example…. Mechanical Lions of the Comnenus. Financial Times Article ALSO… The Emperor’s Palace in Constantinople (described by J Arnott Hamilton, Byzantine Architecture and Decoration (1956 pp16-17) William of Tyre in the […]
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I’m thinking of renaming my ‘Stuff.’ The Sfumato History Project…..” Sfumato is a painting technique for softening the transition between colours, mimicking an area beyond what the human eye is focusing on, or the out-of-focus plane.” a) Because I love saying the word. S-FOO-MAH-TOE […]
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So we all “know” what this is, yes? 1066. Of any date, that any child was ever taught, in any school in the UK, 1066 is probably the best remembered. What we were not taught though, is that the FIRST recorded (!) as in written down, date that survives for the tapestry is 1463 from […]
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Like a numpty….last night I fell asleep listening to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. This is one of my ALL time favourite novels. EXCEPT when I suddenly wake up in a cold sweat and think…… Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. “For the dead travel fast” Note to self…….! Anyway. I’ve said before on here that I am […]
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The Hidden History of the Cathars By Greta Brookes This article is based partly on the New Chronology[1]and also my own extensive research into 17th Europe. It will examine: The “official histories” of the Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade of the 13th century, What exactly was happening in Europe in the 17th The connections […]
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I am reading a “first-hand account” of a trip taken in 1253 to meet the Golden Horde in Mongolia. It’s very interesting but… I had to stop at the mention of FORKS. Why? Well, my mainstream history books tell me that us barbarians in Great Britain did not use forks until the French Princess, Henriette […]
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This is the last of the Comnenus family trees for a while – until I learn more. I’m not 100% happy with this tree but time will help. It’s interesting to know that the Laskaris-Comnenus family is still going strong today. And that in the early 20th century they were in exile in Spain. This […]
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These excerpts and map are taken from the book by GVNosovsky, ATFomenko : THE CONQUEST OF AMERICA by Yermak-Cortes and the rebellion of the Reformation through the eyes of the “ancient” Greeks (2013-2015) THE TERRIBLE TARTARUS OF “ANTIQUITY” is GREAT Tartary, that is, the Russia- Horde of the XIV-XVI centuries. In our studies, we […]
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So…there I was working away on research for the Cathar article I’m STILL writing (!) when I come across the picture above. Oxford. Starfort. Mid 17th century. Why did I swear quite a bit? See the map below…….. This is a map of Cathars in Europe. Look at England. See OXFORD? Did you know […]
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