Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 10
January 17, 2018
January 16, 2018
New video, album news, and tour dates – Thunder on the Left!
Thunder on the Left first came to my attention early last year and I was lucky enough to catch them live at Camden Rocks. This is a band to watch. They have a lot of passion and are producing some great, edgy, provocative music much of which contains thought-provoking lyrics about the world we live in today.
I featured the first single and title track from their upcoming debut album, “National Insecurity”, as a track of the day in October.
The band’s latest single is the awesom...
January 6, 2018
Maria de Salinas, the Loyal Lady Willoughby
History... the interesting bits!
Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire
Maria de Salinas was lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon, and one of her closest confidantes. Although we know little of her origins, she was the daughter of Juan de Salinas, secretary to Katherine’s eldest sister, Isabella, and Josepha Gonzales de Salas. Despite the fact that she was not on the original list of ladies, drawn up in 1500, chosen to accompany Katherine of Aragon to England for her marriage to Prince Arthur,...
January 5, 2018
St Robert’s Cave-Chapel And Holy Well, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire
St Robert’s Cave by Storye book (Wikimedia Commons).
OS Grid Reference: SE 36083 56059. In a secluded wooded area near Grimbald Bridge between Abbey Road and the River Nidd at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, is St Robert’s Cave & Holy Cross Chapel. Nearby, another chapel, but a 15th century wayside chapel and shrine, hewn out of the rock, which is today dedicated to Our Lady of The Crag. This particular chapel is not how-ever associated with St Robert. About 470m...
Burying General Grant
General Grants funeral procession in New York City was seven miles long.
When General Ulysses S. Grant died in 1885, it was not a surprise. He had been ill for more than a year, and everyone knew it.
Double Barrels of Woe
For a few years in the early 1880s, General Grant was a wealthy man.
In 1880, after an embarrassing semi-attempt at a third presidential term for President, an iconic Hero-General Ulysses S. Grant became a titular partner in a New York investm...
January 3, 2018
French Revolution
During the 18th century, French Monarchs had unlimited power, and as such declared themselves as the “Representative of God,” to the people. They were engaged in a life of luxury and extravagance at the royal court of Versailles.
Louis XIV (1643-1715) of the Bourbon Dynasty, a most powerful and efficient monarch, who participated in many wars. His successor Louis XV (1715-1774) took France to war against England, which brought the country to the brink of bankruptc...
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Reassesses “Maternal Instincts”
Before Sarah Blaffer Hrdy came along, maternal nature had been largely defined by highly romanticized Victorian notions, essentially, wishful thinking. Yet, through her research on other primates and cultures, Hrdy learned that polyandrous matings, abortion, infanticide, and abandoning of offspring occur across the natural world. Motherhood comes with a price and when females don’t have the resources or social support they need, they naturally put their own health and the health of the chil...
December 31, 2017
New Year’s Eve
“Fig. 1 An Archer In Action” from “Making a Long-Bow,” The Woodworker magazine, January 1953
“There is always something solemn about the passing of the Old Year. When we were young and the years were very, very long, each New Year’s Eve was an event, the more enthralling for its rarity, and the year ahead still so closely wrapped in the mists of time was full of enticing mystery, something to be explored, one more step forward in the exciting and rather bewildering process o...
Alfred Stieglitz: Sexism at the Heart of Modern Art?
On the 1st of January 1864, seminal photographer Alfred Stieglitz was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. Modern art historians believe that the equally prolific editor and art dealer did more than anyone else to bring European avant-garde art to the American public during the first two decades of the 20th century. The son of a German immigrant, he spent most of the 1880s in Berlin and returned to the USA in 1890 with an international reputation as a photographer. After various venture...
Variable pricing for the dead
From Hennessy:
The Union winter encampment in Stafford in early 1863 teemed with life, but produced death on a daily, rhythmic basis. And death attracted entrepreneurs, intent on serving and capitalizing upon the desires of both the living and the dead. At least two embalmers worked within the Army of the Potomac that winter. They provided a full range of “vertically integrated” services (as we would say today), from caskets to the “disinfection” of long-buried bodies...
