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June 7, 2013
History Trivia - Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England, dies from plague
June 7
421 Eudocia Athenais married Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II who constructed a series of defensive walls that surrounded and protected the city of Constantinople.
555 Vigilius, first Pope of the Byzantine Papacy, died.
1099 first Crusaders arrived in Jerusalem.
1329 Robert Bruce, King of Scotland died.
1340 Rotterdam Netherlands founded.1394 Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England died from plague.
1557 England declared war on France.
421 Eudocia Athenais married Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II who constructed a series of defensive walls that surrounded and protected the city of Constantinople.
555 Vigilius, first Pope of the Byzantine Papacy, died.
1099 first Crusaders arrived in Jerusalem.
1329 Robert Bruce, King of Scotland died.
1340 Rotterdam Netherlands founded.1394 Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England died from plague.
1557 England declared war on France.
Kindle edition of The Ruth Chernock Series by Kim Scott free this weekend, June 7-9, 2013
“Kim Scott is celebrating the 1st anniversary of her book Regarding Ruth by offering her complete 4 book series FREE on Kindle! This offer runs June 7, 8& 9 only so get yours while it lasts!”
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June 6, 2013
The Phil Naessens Show 6-6-2013 The 2013 NBA Finals Preview
http://phillipnaessens.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/the-phil-naessens-show-6-6-2013-the-2013-nba-finals-preview/The San Antonio Spurs face the Miami Heat in Game 1 of the 2013 NBA Finals tonight and Pounding the Rock Managing Editor J.R. Wilco and host Phil Naessens take the full hour to give you one of the most complete previews of this series anywhere on today’s Phil Naessens Show!
The Wizard of Notts provides an Excerpt of Carla by Mark Barry
http://adventuresofceciliaspark.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-wizard-returns-with-carla.html
The Wizard Returns With Carla by Ngaire Elder
Mark Barry is a professional writer and publisher at Green Wizard. To date he has written six novels, including one best seller. He is the proud father of son, Matt. His interests include beekeeping, quilling, spelunking and retired greyhounds.
Mark's favourite quote 'If you're going through Hell, keep going,' Winston Churchill.
Author, Mark Barry
Mark Barry writes across genre and today the spotlight is on his dark and disturbing, contemporary romance novel, Carla.
An excerpt from Carla by Mark Barry:
Luckily, there was a rush. Ladies darts, a good mob of them from the Haywain with their heavy drinking partners and I knew that Carla would be busy from now until closing time. I sat there and suffered for an age, an absolute age, and then Carla came over to talk to me, telling me how much she enjoyed Sunday and asked me whether I’d like to go walking with her around Columbus Park this coming Sunday. I smiled at her and said that would be brilliant, even though it was only Tuesday and I would have all that time to suffer, but I didn’t ask her to go for dinner with me, or for a drink, I just smiled and she touched my hand oh so gently and said I’m so glad, and she had denim shorts on with ribbed tights and ankle boots and a woolly jumper and her hair was in a ponytail and she went back behind the bar and I never got the chance to speak to her again that night but Dino did and by the time it came for me to leave, I went through all the ways I could think of to murder Dino and to get away with it. I’d stalk him. Decapitate him. Bury his body in the Cherry Woods one night and no one would ever be the wiser, yet who would be the first person the Police speak to? You know: The released mental patient in the flat at the end of the road.
*
I was damned, dear reader.
I was truly damned.
*
That night, when I got home, Carla sent me a good night message with two kisses as usual. Afterwards, I stripped to my boxer shorts. Cut my armpit with the Airfix knife and watched the blood trickle like a tributary down my obliques onto my naked thighs.
What readers have said about Carla (Amazon):
~ Mark Barry is brilliant. That is the best word to describe his talent. His writing is on an entirely different level.
~ This story was startling, stunning ...I came away feeling something deep and profound at the unforgettable way this story ends.
~ Carla is a compelling, modern-day love story which is packed full of dark humour, believable eccentricity and heart-rending twists and turns.
US Amazon link - http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Barry/e/B008479RWI
UK Amazon link - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mark-Barry/e/B008479RWI
Want to know more about Mark Barry and his other published novels ... then visit - http://greenwizard62.blogspot.co.uk/
The Wonderful Wizard of Notts!
The Wizard Returns With Carla by Ngaire Elder
Mark Barry is a professional writer and publisher at Green Wizard. To date he has written six novels, including one best seller. He is the proud father of son, Matt. His interests include beekeeping, quilling, spelunking and retired greyhounds.
Mark's favourite quote 'If you're going through Hell, keep going,' Winston Churchill.
Author, Mark BarryMark Barry writes across genre and today the spotlight is on his dark and disturbing, contemporary romance novel, Carla.
An excerpt from Carla by Mark Barry:
Luckily, there was a rush. Ladies darts, a good mob of them from the Haywain with their heavy drinking partners and I knew that Carla would be busy from now until closing time. I sat there and suffered for an age, an absolute age, and then Carla came over to talk to me, telling me how much she enjoyed Sunday and asked me whether I’d like to go walking with her around Columbus Park this coming Sunday. I smiled at her and said that would be brilliant, even though it was only Tuesday and I would have all that time to suffer, but I didn’t ask her to go for dinner with me, or for a drink, I just smiled and she touched my hand oh so gently and said I’m so glad, and she had denim shorts on with ribbed tights and ankle boots and a woolly jumper and her hair was in a ponytail and she went back behind the bar and I never got the chance to speak to her again that night but Dino did and by the time it came for me to leave, I went through all the ways I could think of to murder Dino and to get away with it. I’d stalk him. Decapitate him. Bury his body in the Cherry Woods one night and no one would ever be the wiser, yet who would be the first person the Police speak to? You know: The released mental patient in the flat at the end of the road.
*
I was damned, dear reader.
I was truly damned.
*
That night, when I got home, Carla sent me a good night message with two kisses as usual. Afterwards, I stripped to my boxer shorts. Cut my armpit with the Airfix knife and watched the blood trickle like a tributary down my obliques onto my naked thighs.
What readers have said about Carla (Amazon):
~ Mark Barry is brilliant. That is the best word to describe his talent. His writing is on an entirely different level.
~ This story was startling, stunning ...I came away feeling something deep and profound at the unforgettable way this story ends.
~ Carla is a compelling, modern-day love story which is packed full of dark humour, believable eccentricity and heart-rending twists and turns.
US Amazon link - http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Barry/e/B008479RWI
UK Amazon link - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mark-Barry/e/B008479RWI
Want to know more about Mark Barry and his other published novels ... then visit - http://greenwizard62.blogspot.co.uk/
The Wonderful Wizard of Notts!
History Trivia - World's first museum opens in Oxford, England
June 6
1242 Twenty four wagonloads of Talmudic (Hebrew instruction)books were burned in Paris.
1513 Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeated the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza was restored.
1523 Gustav Vasa was elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union, which had united the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway (with Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Shetland, and Orkney),and Sweden.
1683 The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opened as the world's first university museum.
1242 Twenty four wagonloads of Talmudic (Hebrew instruction)books were burned in Paris.
1513 Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeated the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza was restored.
1523 Gustav Vasa was elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union, which had united the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway (with Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Shetland, and Orkney),and Sweden.
1683 The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opened as the world's first university museum.
June 5, 2013
The Phil Naessens Show 6-5-2013: The Best of The Phil Naessens Show
http://phillipnaessens.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/the-phil-naessens-show-6-5-2013-the-best-of-the-phil-naessens-show/
On Wednesdays Phil Naessens Show Phil replays an interview with Mark Barry, author of the novel Ultra Violence. Listen in as Mark Barry shares tales of Soccer Hooliganism in the United Kingdom.
On Wednesdays Phil Naessens Show Phil replays an interview with Mark Barry, author of the novel Ultra Violence. Listen in as Mark Barry shares tales of Soccer Hooliganism in the United Kingdom.
History Trivia - Titus and his Roman legions breach Jerusalem's middle wall
June 5
70 Titus and his Roman legions breached the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
1099 Members of the First Crusade witnessed an eclipse of the moon and interpreted it as a sign they would recapture Jerusalem.
1294 Saint Celestine V was elected Roman Catholic pope. He was unhappy with the office and abdicated before the year was out.
1341 Edmund of Langley, first Duke of York, son of Edward III of England was born.
1798 The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster was defeated.
70 Titus and his Roman legions breached the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
1099 Members of the First Crusade witnessed an eclipse of the moon and interpreted it as a sign they would recapture Jerusalem.
1294 Saint Celestine V was elected Roman Catholic pope. He was unhappy with the office and abdicated before the year was out.
1341 Edmund of Langley, first Duke of York, son of Edward III of England was born.
1798 The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster was defeated.
June 4, 2013
The Phil Naessens Show 6-4-2013 Fantasy Baseball Tuesday: Would You Trade Miguel Cabrera?
http://phillipnaessens.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/the-phil-naessens-show-6-4-2013-fantasy-baseball-tuesday-would-you-trade-miguel-cabrera/
On this edition of Fantasy Baseball Tuesday Rotowire Fantasy Baseball expert Nick Falk join host Phil Naessens to discuss listeners questions involving trades for Miguel Cabrera for David Ortiz and Robiinson Cano, Jim Johnson for Brandon McCarthy, Adam Jones for Joey Votto and answer questions regarding Wade Miley, Ubaldo Jiminez, Kyle Loshe, Michael Young and much more on Tuesdays Phil Naessens Show.
On this edition of Fantasy Baseball Tuesday Rotowire Fantasy Baseball expert Nick Falk join host Phil Naessens to discuss listeners questions involving trades for Miguel Cabrera for David Ortiz and Robiinson Cano, Jim Johnson for Brandon McCarthy, Adam Jones for Joey Votto and answer questions regarding Wade Miley, Ubaldo Jiminez, Kyle Loshe, Michael Young and much more on Tuesdays Phil Naessens Show.
History Trivia - Roquefort cheese processing discovered
June 4
781 BC – The first historic solar eclipse was recorded in China.
1039 Henry III became Holy Roman Emperor.
1070 the process of making Roquefort cheese was discovered by an anonymous shepherd in a cave near Roquefort, France.
781 BC – The first historic solar eclipse was recorded in China.
1039 Henry III became Holy Roman Emperor.
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1070 the process of making Roquefort cheese was discovered by an anonymous shepherd in a cave near Roquefort, France.
June 3, 2013
The Phil Naessens Show 6-3-2013 Are the St. Louis Cardinals the Best Team in Baseball?
http://phillipnaessens.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/the-phil-naessens-show-6-3-2013-are-the-st-louis-cardinals-the-best-team-in-baseball/
Are the St. Louis Cardinals the best team in baseball? Please join host Phil Naessens and special guest David Whitlock as they discuss this and examine every division in the Major Leagues on Mondays Phil Naessens Show.
Are the St. Louis Cardinals the best team in baseball? Please join host Phil Naessens and special guest David Whitlock as they discuss this and examine every division in the Major Leagues on Mondays Phil Naessens Show.
