Nemean Lion
WikiNotSoPicky : Nemean lion I won’t even bother going into Agatha Christie’s Twelve Labours of Hercules. The book or the David Suchet programme! Let’s jump straight to LEWIS (top 5 fave TV series) The Lions of Nemea
Read More“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.”
WikiNotSoPicky : Nemean lion I won’t even bother going into Agatha Christie’s Twelve Labours of Hercules. The book or the David Suchet programme! Let’s jump straight to LEWIS (top 5 fave TV series) The Lions of Nemea
Read MoreNumbers Tell Lies? Nah. Not in my World. Here, it is one hundred thousand million billion against me. So me MUST be Wrong :o( BTW. The full quote is spoken by MacDuff!!!! MACDUFF Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence The life […]
Read MoreI’ve just spent half the morning looking for a certain book that I KNOW I have. Can I find it? Nope. The faeries have whisked it away. Pesky little blighters :o( Anyhoo – this one popped out instead. I’d forgotten all about it! Two texts previously published separately combined in a single volume, these […]
Read MoreMy apologies. I was going to go in-depth into The Clouds but real life got in the way. As per usual :o( Anyhoo – the sources are freely available to y’all to check. Here is the NC CONCLUSION about Aristophanes’ play THE CLOUDS CONCLUSIONS. Apparently, in the drama of Aristophanes “Clouds” the gospel story […]
Read MoreSocrates is the Single Most Important Character in Aristophanes’ play! Socrates via SparkNotes As mentioned earlier, the Socrates that Aristophanes presents is a composite of several current philosophers and sophists, such as Anaxagoras, Diogenes, Protagoras, Hippon, Korax, and Gorgias. Therefore, Socrates is as much of a “personification” as Just Argument and Unjust Argument. […]
Read MoreRight now…Only Two characters from The Clouds are important. Strepsiades via Spark Notes Strepsiades is the anti-hero of Aristophanes’s play. He is an older Athenian citizen and a farmer. He married a well-to-do girl with aristocratic pretensions and has a son, Pheidippides, who has inherited the young woman’s rarified tastes and has begun running […]
Read MoreWay back – I posted this. Aristophanes – The Clouds I think it’s time to rewind and finish the story :o) From SparkNotes : Character List Strepsiades – An Athenian citizen and harried father, burdened by the debts his son, Pheidippides, has incurred. Strepsiades is the “hero” of the play, but he is not very […]
Read MoreThere are plenty of sources out there “explaining” The Norman Theory. A Good Place to start is — Encyclopedia of Ukraine I’ve covered bits of 1066 and all that here. Let’s see what NC has to say about The Norman Theory : It should be abandoned the idea that the chronicle records that […]
Read MoreYou know the usual blurb! Got it. Read it. This time it’s “Read them forever ago and feeling the need to re-read.” ! The Travels of Sir John Mandeville Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Mandeville claims to have […]
Read MoreUsual Disclaimer: I don’t read Russian so this has been googlated from the original Russian text of Fomenko and Nosovsky. It may not be “quite” as complicated as it looks to us now in Computer English !?! My apologies. We divide several letters merged into one into component letters and put them in curly […]
Read More“By the grace of all good and all-good Bhog our God and the intercession of the gracious intercessor of the Blessed Lady of Our Lady and for the prayer of our father and the merciful intercessor of Saint Sava the Wonderworker and on both (here, instead of “e” stands “yat”) reading and ordering (here, instead […]
Read Moreaka the famous Zvenigorod bell. A little BS….sorry….MS History about this bell. It is believed that the bell was cast in 1668 by “the sovereign cannon and bell master Alexander Grigoryev.” The bell weighed 2125 pounds 30 hryvnias (approx. 35 tons). Depicted on it are the coat of arms of Zvenigorod. Historians believe that […]
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