“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.”
Written by Greta Brookes : THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE CATHARS There is a voice somewhere with a same old, same old pattern. IT keeps bringing up the Cathars in live chats. But when CHALLENGED has NO idea what IT is talking about. And – because I’m Forced to – I will say it […]
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Can y’all answer a single one of these?? I can’t :o(
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Well. I’ve got my name back. And as there is a New Moon tomorrow, it’s looking like I’m being FORCED by (God only knows what entities) to start from scratch. 24th July 2018 – The Journey Begins As it’s all been done already. I just have to re-post about 3,000 posts. […]
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A VIRTUOUS GRAND VIZIER
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Unzip. But fun :o) 10th June 2019 : 1241 – THE TARTARS ARE COMING… And something about a Serbian Janissary. And quite a lot about Vlad the Impaler and Transylvania and…….!
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Puhlease – will someone, somewhere explain to me why Women in MS History are usually only ever categorised as a Whore or a Virgin? Below is chapter 1 of Empress of the East. Roxelana was (?!) a Slave and a Concubine. A Witch. A Seductress. And an Unwanted Foreign Interloper. REALLY? What about a good […]
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Wiki : Holodomor My Brillopads weekend guest from Wales has just left chez moi. He’s a walking, talking encyclopedia of 20th century “War” history and has spent two days telling me about his trip, late last year to Chernobyl, and the Holodomor and the museum he visited and the women (all Middle-aged/Old) who were DESPERATE […]
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The Hungarian Borderlands and Crisis in the Ottoman Empire in the Late Sixteenth Century
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Every REAL writer knows the first 2 MAJOR rules of writing. Show, Don’t Tell. Less is More. And – taking these to heart – I’ll do my REAL job and Endeth the Lesson here!
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Briar Rose vs Sleeping Beauty Wiki : The Legend of Briar Rose My absolute fave Pre-Rafa painter HAS to be Burne-Jones. And I love and adore his series of paintings about this legend of the Briar Rose and Sleeping Knights. “The threat of war, the hope of peace, The Kingdoms peril […]
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Maybe I, ever so humbly, suggest that you research the name above. And also the ORIGINAL meaning of the word DESPOT? SMH!
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For nearly four centuries, the Ottoman sultans dwelt amid the secret splendors of Topkapi Palace. Access to the Grand Seraglio–which served as the empire’s administrative, legislative, and judicial center and an academy of fine arts, as well as the ruler’s home–was jealously guarded, even after the sultans ceased to reside there in the mid-nineteenth century. […]
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