“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.”
It’s mine own fault really :o( For falling madly in love with a Medieval (Viking) Norwegian King called Magnus (Barelegs) Olafsson. You’ve gotta love the name of his sword. When he wasn’t shooting arrows into Norman Earl’s eyes, he was hamstringing his enemies with a weapon called Legbiter. He came back to bite me. Tut. […]
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OMGiddy DNA! I’m so excited. I’ve just found out that I have Crawford in my DNA!!!! COUSINS Maybe not the fictional Francis Crawford of Lymond. VOTED ONE OF BRITAIN’S FAVOURITE HISTORICAL NOVELS Before George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett . . . PERFECT for fans of A Game of Thrones. ‘She is a brilliant story teller, The […]
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Well. So. As I’ve been saying forever now – certain people are only too happy to stalk and steal from here. Yesterday’s video with May and Hammond playing with Lego produced Lego mentions in the usual yukky places. What I loved most about that video was the moment when James May was asked the question…”Who […]
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Phrygia I’ve tried. OMG. I’ve tried so hard. But the Phrygian Cap has always been my MAIN evidence that why-toob – so-called EXPERT – Tartarian Channels don’t have a clue what they are talking about. Yes. A stupid hat aka “Happy Hat” But…ask yourself how a hat connected with Anatolia came to be worn by […]
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Amber is one of my favourite gemstones. A study of this tree resin is quite interesting. Also the study of ambergris! Forget the BS timelines here… AMBER And(maybe) wonder about the mysteries here… Amber Room There’s more to trees than meets the eye?
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An article that I wrote about 15 years ago is still being used in schools world-wide today. It was about scent and the Middle Ages. All these years later I’m still studying the subject. The book above is interesting – not least because I now place the “Ancient Romans & Greeks” on a different timeline […]
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OK. Who…WHO is spreading this utterly FALSE & LUDICROUS fallacy? We are truly in the realms of LALALAND now! Some of history has been distorted/rewritten/given new dates. This does NOT mean that ALL OF HISTORY IS A LIE To say this time and again in public arenas is to perpetrate a crime that is even […]
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…To PUBLICLY DECLARE IT’S VICTORY!!! Lovely girl – U have made my day :o) You Took The Words Right Out of MY Mouth…Wooooohooooooo. Happy Dance :o) :o) :o)
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Richard Hakluyt Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe is an interdisciplinary collection of 24 essays which brings together leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work. Best known as editor of The Principal Navigations (1589; expanded 1598-1600), Hakluyt was a key figure in promoting English colonial and commercial expansion in the early […]
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For many years I used to wear a ring on my right hand EXACTLY the same as the image above. Then one day I had to take it off. It got knocked on the floor by someone and broke apart. I needed a brain better than mine to rebuild it! A Celtic knot is complicated. […]
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Hidden History Research 