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History Trivia - Babylonians capture Jerusalem

March 16

597 BC Babylonians captured Jerusalem, replaced Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
Caligula37 AD the emperor Tiberius died at the age of 78 and was succeeded by Caligula.

1072 Adalbert, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen and guardian and tutor to Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, died.

1190 Massacre of the Jews at York, England. 

1322 The Battle of Boroughbridge took place in the First War of Scottish Independence. 

 1485 Anne
Neville, queen of Richard III of England died.

Brenda Perlin Wins Flash Fiction Challenge

to Brenda Perlin, the readers’ choice in this week’s Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge.
The winning entry is recognized with a special feature here today and a place in our collection of winners which will be published as an e-book at year end.
Without further ado, here’s the winning story:



Jaws of Justice
by Brenda Perlin
Through the metal fence his eyes caught my attention. It was as if he read my mind. He could sense that I would cause him no harm. Something in the way he looked my way showed he understood. There was a connection that even I couldn’t explain.
The sign on the fence read, Justice- Adult male. Has food fights.
 Of course he would fight over food, I said to myself. If I were locked up in a cell with other hungry, lonely dogs, I would fight too.
He looked more like a wolf than a dog and was mangy and sickly, even ferocious  looking, yet there was something that made it close to impossible to walk the other way. The attraction was there in an instant and my reservations about bringing home a dog blew away like sand in a windstorm.
 His heart, though weary, seemed to call out “I need you.” I knew that because my heart was saying the same thing, too.
Though my house was less than perfect for a dog, the moment I passed his way I knew that this is where he belonged…at home with me, by my side, cuddled in-between my legs.

http://www.indiesunlimited.com/2014/03/14/brenda-perlin-wins-flash-fiction-challenge-2/

History Trivia - Julius Caesar stabbed to death

March 15

 44 BC Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, was stabbed to death .  

351 Constantius II elevated his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and put him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.

493 Theodorik the Great defeated Odoaker of Italy.

933 Battle at Riade: German King Henry I defeated Magyaren.

1311 Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeated Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.

1360 France invasion army landed on England's southern coast, conquering Winchel.

Beware the Ides of March

Beware the Ides of March ! March 15, 44 BC Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, was stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. He had appointed his great-nephew, Octavian, as his heir. Civil war broke out between Caesar's assassins and his successors (Mark Antony and Octavian).

Archaeologist links graves excavated in northern Greece with ancient kings of Macedonia

THESSALONIKI, Greece –  A Greek archaeologist says she has discovered 20 new burials near Macedonia's ancient capital in northern Greece, and some could tentatively be associated with the early Macedonian kings.
Excavator Angeliki Kottaridi says two of the poorly preserved graves excavated in a cemetery between 2012-2013 "might perhaps be linked" with Alexander I and his son, Perdiccas II.
Both reigned in the 5th century B.C., a century before the most famous ancient Macedonian king, Alexander III the Great.
In a statement Thursday, Kottaridi said the graves at Vergina — believed to be ancient Aegae — were looted and largely dismantled in antiquity. Surviving finds included vases and a sword.
A rich burial excavated decades ago at Vergina has been linked with Phillip II, father of Alexander the Great, although many experts disagree.
 http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/03/13/greek-archaeologist-graves-ancient-macedonia/

Campaign for Richard III's reburial in York heard by high court

Descendants argue that York is fitting resting place for monarch, whose remains were found beneath a Leicester carpark

  Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent theguardian.com  King Richard III Society's facial reconstruction of the monarch. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesDescendants of the family of the last medieval king of England have taken their campaign for him to be reburied in York to the high court.
In the latest round of the legal dispute over Richard III's final resting place, lawyers for the justice secretary, Leicester University and Leicester council have clashed with those representing the Plantagenet Alliance.
The monarch, whom Tudor historians nicknamed Crookback Dick, was killed on 22 August 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field by Henry VII's soldiers. His body was interred in nearby Greyfriars church in Leicester.
His remains were subsequently lost for more than 500 years until exhumed by archaeologists from beneath a Leicester carpark in September 2012.
The Plantagenet Alliance, a company formed by relatives of Richard's family, argues that he should be reburied in his ancestral home, York. The Yorkist king is not believed to have had any direct descendants.
Gerard Clarke, representing the alliance, told the high court on Thursday he was not seeking an order for the monarch's reburial in York, merely adequate public consultation by the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, on the decision about where the remains should rest.
Apart from King Harold II, who died at the Battle of Hastings, Richard III was the only king since 1066 whose whereabouts had been unknown.
"We asked the War Graves Commission what would happen if they discovered the body of a someone who died on the first day of the 1916 Battle of the Somme," Clarke told the court.
"No one who knew such a man would be alive now, but he may have had descendants. The War Graves Commission said they would ask them [what should happen to the soldier's remains]."
Mr Justice Ouseley, one of the three judges hearing the case, suggested it was up to a succeeding monarch to decide what happened to the body of his predecessor. Such an executive order, he implied, had already resulted in the decision to leave the body in Leicester.
"We can take it that Henry VII was responsible for disposing of the remains," Ouseley said. "So a decision was taken by the next monarch about where the body would lie. [Richard III] was discovered where [Henry VII] decided he should be buried."
Clarke protested: "We are making assumptions about what happened to the body."
Ouseley said: "Do you seriously suppose that Henry VII was not aware of what happened to the body of the man he had usurped?"
The hearing is expected to last two days.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/13/richard-iii-reburial-york-plantagenet-campaign-leicester-high-court http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/20...

Richard III: this king should stay in Leicester

  An expected tourist boom is at stake for the city that can call itself Richard III's resting place


"Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end; Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend." So the Duchess of York curses Richard III in Shakespeare's eponymous play, predicting the king's demise at the battle of Bosworth. More than half a millennium after Bosworth, Yorkists and their enemies are still fighting over his corpse. The Plantagenet Alliance – which describes itself as "collateral" or non-direct descendants of Richard and thereby grants itself licence to speak on his behalf – has launched a daring high court assault on the University of Leicester over the location of Richard's reburial site. The Plantagenets have asked for the matter to be put out for consultation with the public, the Queen, English Heritage and themselves, buying time to further the case for reinterment in York. The university, meanwhile, insists on Leicester, the city where he was found next to a painted letter "R" in a council car park.
Much is at stake. A substantial tourist boom is expected to come to the city that can call itself Richard III's resting place. Leicester's new £4m Richard visitor centre is expected to attract 100,000 visitors a year. York, already blessed by cultural heritage with its Roman and Viking past and its gothic minster, would doubtless benefit, too.
But the arguments extend beyond the purely economic. The Plantagenet Alliance's case is built on the assertion that the discovery of the body of a former English monarch is unprecedented and a matter of national importance, with which few would disagree, and that public consultation is therefore essential. Its argument that it should have a say, in the same way that descendants of a soldier killed at the Somme would be consulted by the War Graves Commission, does not, however, stand up to scrutiny. The Plantagenets' family connections to the king are far more tenuous: Richard had no surviving children but five siblings, and now could have several million similarly distant descendants. The alliance's court battle also smacks of opportunism: it did not exist at the time of the extraordinary press conference in February last year when Richard's identity was announced. Most persuasive for Leicester, however, may be the argument that the decision has already been made by an English monarch: in 1485, Richard's successor, Henry VII, would have likely overseen the disposal of the royal corpse and approved the burial site at Greyfriars Friary.
The Plantagenet Alliance is asking the judges to overrule the terms of the dig licence, which stipulated reburial at Leicester cathedral. The more discussion of the extraordinary "king in the car park" find, the better. But his bones belong in Leicester.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/14/richard-iii-king-stay-leicester-editorial

Battle Royal: Distant relatives launch High Court Battle over Richard III's remains

A stained glass window at Cardiff Castle depicts King Richard III and Queen Anne Neville. (University of Leicester) LONDON –  Distant relatives of England's King Richard III are launching their High Court battle over where to rebury the 15th-century monarch's remains.
The remains of Richard -- who was killed in battle in 1485 -- were found in a Leicester parking lot.
The government has given Leicester Cathedral in central England permission to rebury the king, but his relatives want him buried in the northern England city of York.
The relatives -- under the name the Plantagenet Alliance -- are bringing legal action that begins Thursday at the High Court against the government and the University of Leicester.
They claim that the government did not consult widely enough -- or consider the wishes of Richard or his descendant -- on where the monarch should be reburied

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/03/13/battle-royal-over-richard-iii/

The Phil Naessens Show: Are the San Antonio Spurs Overlooked by the National Media?

http://phillipnaessens.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/are-the-san-antonio-spurs-overlooked-by-the-national-media/




On this edition of the Phil Naessens Show  J.R. Wilco joins Phil and discusses why some San Antonio Spurs fans feel the team gets an unfair shake from the National media. Brandon Kraeling stops by to discuss with Phil the potential starting lineup of the Cincinnati Reds and J.A. Sherman joins Phil to discuss the Oklahoma City Thunders win over the Houston Rockets, give Phil his weekly “Kiwi” test and much more.

Facebook Event - Launch Party: Annie Mouse's Route 66 Family Vacation! Saturday, March 15, 2014 1:00pm until 3:00pm in EDT

Launch Party: Annie Mouse's Route 66 Family Vacation!

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Time?
1:00pm until 3:00pm in EDT

Where?
At your computer---on the internet

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Come help Annie Mouse celebrate the release of her new book: Annie Mouse's Route 66 Family Vacation! http://authl.it/B00IK9XH1M
Prizes and giveaways! Join the celebration! I'll be listing the prizes-gift certificates, Route 66 prize package, books and more, soon!

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