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October 5, 2015
Willem Arondeus
Originally posted on Exequy's Blog:
Willem Arondeus
Willem Arondeus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author, who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews. Arondeus was caught and executed soon after his arrest.
Arondeus was openly gay before the war and defiantly asserted his sexuality before his execution.
Biography
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Memphis Minnie – “Queen of the Country Blues”
Originally posted on Memphis Minnie became known as ‘the queen of country blues’ for her amazing talent as a blues guitarist, singer & songwriter, who made waves amongst the mainly male-dominated blues scene of the 1930s.
Her real name was Lizzie Douglas, and she was born in 1897 in Mississippi, just south of Memphis. The oldest of 13 children, everyone in her large family called her ‘Kid’. She developed a love for music at a young age, taking up the banjo and receiving her first guitar at...
October 4, 2015
Martha Washington’s “Disposition”
Originally posted on Presidential History Blog:
Martha Washington had very few memorable “quotes” – but one of them bears repeating. Often.
Martha Washington: Correspondent
Both George and Martha Washington are buried at their beloved Mount Vernon home.
When George Washington died in 1799, his distraught widow of more than 40 years systematically burned most of their correspondence. George Washington was the most famous man in the country, but Martha wanted to keep their privacy intact. Th...
‘Tears Ease the Heart’: A Teenage Galwegian Civil War Veteran in Texas, 1866
Great post
Originally posted on Irish in the American Civil War:
Many Famine emigrants found themselves on the front lines of the American Civil War. Others watched as the children they had taken to America in search of a new life marched off to war. One couple who endured this was John and Mary Hannon, who saw their underage son, John Jr., ride to Virginia in the ranks of the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry. Thankfully for them, at the conflict’s conclusion in 1865 he came home. But it...
down to the letter.
Originally posted on History Witch:
This is Johannes Junius (1573 – 1628). He was the mayor of Bamberg, Germany when he was arrested on charges of witchcraft. This was shortly after his wife was executed for the same reason. During this incredibly volatile time, 5 mayors found themselves burning at the stake.
Junius denied the charges and demanded to face his witnesses. He went through a full week of torture and STILL proclaimed he was not a witch. The torture methods used were the applicat...
October 3, 2015
English Utopia in the Art of Helen Allingham
Originally posted on A R T LR K:
On the 28th of September 1926, Victorian water-colourist and illustrator Helen Allingham, born Helen M. E. Paterson, died in Haslemere, Surrey, England. Her career “was circumscribed by, relied upon, and exceeded accepted norms of landscape painting in the nineteenth century. She painted out-of-doors, for example, a common mode of practice none the less considered suspect for respectable women and further complicated by her role as a mother. While she used wa...
The Story of Philippa of Clarence, Matriarch of the House of York
Originally posted on History... the interesting bits!:
Arms of Philippa of Clarence
Princess Philippa of Clarence was born at Eltham Palace in Kent on the 16th August 1355. She was named after her grandmother, Philippa of Hainault, queen of Edward III, who was one of her Godparents.
The first grandchild of Edward III she was the only child of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, and his 1st wife, Elizabeth de Burgh. Lionel was the 1st of Edward and Philippa’s children to marry.
Lionel was...
September 30, 2015
The Christening of Prince Arthur
Originally posted on tudors & other histories:
The Rose both red and white. In one rose now doth grow.
On Sunday the 24th of September 1486, Prince Arthur Tudor was christened at Winchester Cathedral. His godparents were the Queen Dowager Elizabeth Woodville, John de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, Sir Thomas Stanley, the Earl of Derby.
“The city turned out to see the solemn procession, which was captured in an engraving by an unknown artist, showing no less than five people carrying the baby’s...
September 28, 2015
Master of Macabre and Wicked Women Writers 2015
Originally posted on Casa de Pitsiladis:
Hello ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to the Casa!
I’ve been keeping busy in the past week between working on some re-writes for a novel I originally wrote three years ago titled “Coffeehouse”. It was sitting around while I thought of a way to streamline the story and figure out the ending I really wanted compared to the one I ended up with. The muse finally graced me with the inspiration I needed. I hope to have the improved story ready to be sent out...
