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November 1, 2015
Journals 9.1 – Seward’s Travels Around the World (Part 1)
Originally posted on Windows into History:
Niagara Falls, painted by William Morris Hunt in 1878
William H. Seward’s Travels Around the World was published posthumously in 1873 by D. Appleton & Company, New York. Of all the journal writers I have explored so far he was the most famous, although his fame was not as a result of his writing.
Had history taken a different turn, Seward could well have been the 16th President of the United States of America. A Governor of New York from 1839-1842...
Sawney Bean – Ayrshire’s Favourite Cannibal
Originally posted on South Ayrshire History:
On a ledge of rock jutting out high on a cave wall, four figures lie motionless, hoping to remain unseen in their hiding place. The setting is Ayrshire’s rocky Carrick coast in the early 1600s, and the fugitives are young Launce Kennedy of Kirrieoch, his friend the schoolmaster of Maybole, and the two daughters of the Laird of Culzean. Escaping by boat after the rescue of the older girl from her abductors, and pursued through night and mist by hos...
The king, his sister, and the secret treaty
Originally posted on Anna Belfrage:
One of the things that I find very endearing about Charles II, is that he was very much a family man. Not, I hasten to add, family man in the sense that he liked sitting at home with the wife and have tea (our Charles was quite the bounder, more than fond of an intense and…err…varied nightlife), more in that he held his Stuart family close to his heart.
Because I love it…van Dyck, the five eldest children of Charles I
I suppose to some extent this is the...
Those gorgeous Stuart men – meet some 17th century hotties
Originally posted on Anna Belfrage:
Prince Rupert of the Rhine
Whenever people talk about ”those handsome Stuarts”, chances are they’ll come dragging with oh, so dashing Prince Rupert, nephew to king Charles I, valiant royalist commander, owner of a famous dog, and yes – he was good-looking as can be seen in the attached portrait.
Maurice of the Palatinate
So were his brothers – especially Maurice, but a friend of mine says there’s no point in expending much affection on a man who got lo...
October 31, 2015
A Regency Era Personality–General “Gentleman Johnny” Burgoyne
Originally posted on The Things That Catch My Eye:
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.
General John Burgoyne
February 24 1722 to August 4 1792
Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne. I know that he seems to die on the very earliest part of the Regency but he was such a colorful character that I think he deserves to be remembered.
He might have been the illegitimate son of Lord Bingley, who was his...
A Regency Era Personality–Cassandra Austen
Originally posted on The Things That Catch My Eye:
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.
Cassandra Austen
January 9 1773 to March 22 1845
Devotees of the Regency Era often are fans of Jane Austen and her works as well. But I would hazard that Jane would not be Jane without her Cassandra. Her dearest sister and the woman who destroyed a great deal of Jane’s correspondence so those who are...
Friday Glam Spam: Vilma Bánky (1901-1991)
Originally posted on Island of Lost Films:
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Vilma Bánky (January 9, 1901 – March 18, 1991) wasasilent film actress from Hungary. After appearing in several Hungarian and German pictures, she was brought to Hollywood by Samuel Goldwyn in 1925. Billed as “The Hungarian Rhapsody,” she was an immediate hit with American audiences; of her performance inher first American film The Dark Angel(1925) opposite Ronald Colman, The New York Timessaid she was“a young person of rar...
October 30, 2015
Regency Personalities Series-James Innes-Ker 5th Duke of Roxburghe
Originally posted on The Things That Catch My Eye:
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.
James Innes-Ker 5th Duke of Roxburghe
10 January 1736 – 19 July 1823
James Innes-Ker
James Innes-Ker 5th Duke of Roxburghe was the eldest surviving son of Sir Henry Innes, 5th Baronet (c. 1711–1762), and Anne Drummonda Grant (1711–1771). He succeeded to the Baronetcy on his father’s death. Through...
