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September 8, 2012
8 September 1504 Full Frontal Male Nudity
8 September 1504 – Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence. Get your own! Michelangelo's "David" Statue Sculpture Fine Art
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September 6, 2012
[VIDEO] Wollin Battle Video
Originally posted 12/27/08. Stick around and see what else you missed.
September 3, 2012
Grrlz2Men: [HISTORY] Deborah Sampson/Robert Shurtleff: Fighti.ing for Veteran's Rights
Grrlz2Men: [HISTORY] Deborah Sampson/Robert Shurtleff: Fighti...: The soldier known to his unit in the American Revolutionary War as Robert Shurtleff was born Deborah Sampson on December 17th, 1760 in Plymp...
August 31, 2012
[MUSIC] Radio Dé Danann: Work All Day for the Sugar in your Tay - Labor Day Songs..
"Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill"Radio Dé Danann: Work All Day for the Sugar in youyr Tay - Labor Da...: Tarriers For Labor Day... Aongs of work and working people. See how many occupations you can hear songs for.
August 28, 2012
August 26, 2012
[STORIES] Wherein Leofwen Recalls an Old Love
Originally posted on the Blue Lady Tavern blog on Sunday, February 11, 2007.
Dear and gentle readers, this your storyteller is in a sentimental mood this day. 'Tis the celebration of the god Váli, Loge's son, among the Saxon peoples and their kin. Váli is the archer whose arrows are the beams of light that bring a foretaste of Spring and as well the heart of a young girl or boy to shine with love. The Christians may call him "Valentine" yet still is he the archer of love. Every year at Váli's...
Dear and gentle readers, this your storyteller is in a sentimental mood this day. 'Tis the celebration of the god Váli, Loge's son, among the Saxon peoples and their kin. Váli is the archer whose arrows are the beams of light that bring a foretaste of Spring and as well the heart of a young girl or boy to shine with love. The Christians may call him "Valentine" yet still is he the archer of love. Every year at Váli's...
August 25, 2012
[EVENT] 25 August 1537 Old Guns
25 August 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.Learn more in Artillery: An Illustrated History
by Jeff Kinard.
August 22, 2012
[TOPIC] "Women Won't Read Books with Male Narrators"
Four bestsellers narrated by men.
There is discussion right now* on the Historical Novel Society's Yahoogroup whether women, who are said to be the greater number of readers of historical fiction, will read novels where the first person narrator is male. To be more exact, the question is whether these readers will buy these books. It appears that certain publishers do not think so. I have heard from more than one author of historical fiction that although an editor might love a manuscrip...
August 21, 2012
Grrlz2Men: HISTORY: Nadezhda Darova/Alexander Alexandrov - He...
Grrlz2Men: HISTORY: Nadezhda Darova/Alexander Alexandrov - He...: Women who have taken historic roles as men in time of war do it for a variety of reasons. For most it is simply the only way they can take ...
August 17, 2012
[REVIEW] WAR STORIES by Byrne Fone
Reviewd by Christopher T. Moss for GLBT Bookshelf.
The most unfrortunate thing about this and Byrne Fone's other books is that because he is known as a GLBT author may people who would gain so much pleasure and benefit from them will choose not to read them, either through a mistaken sense that 'it's not meant for me" or "I don't want to read about those people." A wonderful book transcends cultural and other differences. Literature is not gay or straight or Christian or jewish or...
The most unfrortunate thing about this and Byrne Fone's other books is that because he is known as a GLBT author may people who would gain so much pleasure and benefit from them will choose not to read them, either through a mistaken sense that 'it's not meant for me" or "I don't want to read about those people." A wonderful book transcends cultural and other differences. Literature is not gay or straight or Christian or jewish or...
