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January 26, 2016
The Three Ancient Bridges, Wycoller, Lancashire
Pack-horse bridge at Wycoller, Lancashire.
OS grid reference: SD932383 39247. The secluded little village of Wycoller nestles in a narrowvalley 1 miles to the east of Trawden, Lancashire, but it is well-known for its three ancient bridges which have stood over the beck for hundreds, ifnot thousandsof years. They have even outlived Wycoller Hall which stands ruined and desolate. But each of the bridges has its very own tale to tell. There are actually seven bridg...
Abigail Fillmore and the White House Library
Abigail Fillmore is one of those early First Ladies who has faded into oblivion. She needs to be re-explored.
Miss Powers, Teacher
Abigail Powers (1798-1852) was only two when her father died. She later claimed to have inherited two important things from the father she never knew: his love of reading, and his vast (for upstate New York in 1800) library.
One of the rare etchings of Abigail Powers Fillmore, wife of the 13th President.
By the time she was sixteen, s...
WILLIAM ANDERSON HATFIELD
William Anderson Hatfield (September 9, 1839 – January 6, 1921) — known as Devil Anse Hatfield — was the patriarch of the Hatfield clan during the infamous Hatfield–McCoy feud which has since formed a part of American folklore. Devil Anse himself survived the feud and agreed to end it in 1891.
Hatfield was born in Logan, Virginia (now Logan, West Virginia), the son of Ephraim Hatfield, of English descent, and Nancy Vance.
His nickname “Devil Anse” has a variety of su...
January 25, 2016
Godzilla: The Nuclear Monster
On the 25th of January 1970, Eiji Tsuburaya, the Japanese special effects director, died in Sukagawa, Fukushima, Japan. Known for his immaculate experimentation in the field of cinematic special effects in his time, Tsuburaya brought new quality into the Japanese science-fiction genre.
He began his career in filmmaking as a cinematographer at the Nippon Cinematograph Company in Kyoto. In 1926, he joined Shochiku Kyoto Studios, where he started experimenting with innovative filming...
22 JANUARY 1552: The Execution of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset
The Historical Edward Seymour (left) was in reality a shy man as opposed to the intimidating figure played by Max Brown (right) in “The Tudors”.
On the 22nd of January, Edward Seymour, the former Lord Protector and Duke of Somerset was executed.
John Dudley and William Herbert had grown dissatisfied with the way he was running the country. When Edward Seymour was elected Lord Protector, he got to that position by making deals with many of Henry VIII’s executors an...
Why Writing Isn’t Enough—The Savvy Writer’s Guide to Success
Image via Drew Coffman courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons
Today, we’re going to do something a little different. You want to know one thing I love probably more than anything in the world? Spotting great talent and getting to share it. Thus, today I would like to introduce you to one of my followers who snagged my attention over the holidays and I asked her to come and share her wisdom today because I think we can all gain something from her (even me because am always...
Lady Jane Wilde
Long before Oscar Wilde became a household name, his mother, Jane, was a celebrity in her native Dublin and far beyond. A poet, an essayist, an accomplished linguist, a wit, a beauty, a very loving wife and mother, and a campaigner for liberty and women’s rights, she earned a reputation as a fiery revolutionary in Ireland and as a very accomplished translator of key literary works throughout Europe.
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Recalling an honest man, ‘the noblest work of God’
A number of notable individuals are interred at Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church Cemetery in South Carolina’s Lancaster County, just south of the North Carolina state line.
These include Andrew Jackson Sr., the father of the seventh US president; William Richardson Davie, who led American troops in the Revolutionary War, served as governor of North Carolina and is considered the founder of the University of North Carolina; and James Witherspoon, lieutenant governor...
The Aqueduct of Valens
The History of the Byzantine Empire
In modern Istanbul, standing impressively over the traffic on the busy Atatürk Bulvarı is the Aqueduct of Valens. (Today it is known better as the Bozdogan Kemeri.) It is a two-story structure standing at a maximum height of about twenty metres and characterized by Roman arches along its whole length. Originally almost one kilometre in length (971 metres), spanning the valley between the third and fourth hills of Constantinople, only nine hundred and twen...
