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September 23, 2015
Frances Cleveland: The FLOTUS As Celebrity
Originally posted on Presidential History Blog:
When 49-year-old sitting president Grover Cleveland took a 21-year old bride, the country was enchanted.
Frances Folsom: White House Bride
Frances Folsom Cleveland was only twenty-one when she became First Lady.
New First Lady Frances Cleveland was not only young, but she was pretty. She had a nice figure, a peaches-and-cream complexion – and dimples! The very antithesis of the grumpy looking and seriously overweight president.
At her very fi...
Satan’s Salt
Originally posted on History Witch:
This witch story has all the usual elements… healer, gossip, false testimony, bitter judge, etc. Lisbet Nypan (1610 – 1670) was accused of witchcraft in Norway. Along with her husband, Ole. The two were brought to trial and convicted.
Lisbet made a living as a healer. People in her village came to her for remedies to cure ailments and sickness. One of her methods was “reading in salt”. This was done by saying a prayer over a pile of salt, and having the p...
September 22, 2015
Album review – DOLAN BROTHERHOOD ‘Love And Hurricanes’
Originally posted on Rock And Roll:
Every now and then you come across an album that catches you totally unawares and proceeds to just reach into your mind and your heart and grab a hold of you, making you sit up and go “wth did I just hear?”. That just happened to me this past weekend with Dolan Brotherhood’s new album Love And Hurricanes.I’ve listened itmore times than I’ll admit, and I am just struck down to my core: it’s simply outstanding from start to finish.
So many musical strands ru...
Amazing Women Who Inspire Us! Joan of Arc: The Maid of Orleans.
Originally posted on If It Happened Yesterday, It's History:
Joan of Arc, wearing a breastplate and brandishing her banner, rode at the head of the uncrowned Charles VII’s army and into history. She led the French to a famous victory by routing the English at the Siege of Orleans in 1429. As the people of Orleans burst into rousing cheers, questions were immediately asked who was this young woman? For seven months Orleans had been under siege by the English and now in a little over 4 days o...
Red and White it flows: The Birth of Prince Arthur
Originally posted on tudors & other histories:
On the 20thof September 1486, Queen Elizabeth of York gave birth to the first prince of the Tudor dynasty, a baby boy named Arthur at St. Swithun’s Priory next to Winchester Cathedral. This was no coincidence as Henry waned his crown heir to be born in the place where it was believed Camelot once stood.
Henry was proud of his Welsh roots and he wanted to exalt them, by naming his crown heir, Arthur after the legendary king who unified all Bri...
September 21, 2015
Aphra Behn
Originally posted on Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) was a 17th-century writer who challenged expectations of women at the time by writing plays, poetry and novels for profit. Her most famous texts include The Rover,Oroonoko, and The Fair Jilt. Some of her writing was notorious for its sexual themes,but she also got into trouble for writing about politics, a risk for any writer during this period but particularly for a woman. Behn’s prose writing is seen as playing an important part in the develop...
Regency Personalities Series-William Morgan (actuary)
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.
William Morgan (actuary)
26 May 1750– 4 May 1833
William Morgan
William Morgan (actuary) was born in Bridgend, Glamorganshire, son to physician William Morgan and Sarah, née Price. His brother was George Cadogan Morgan. At eighteen he came to London for medical training at Guy’s Hospital, working...
The gallant and heroic Madame du Frenoy, 1785
Originally posted on All Things Georgian:
In the December of 1785 the French port town of Marseilles was abuzz with gossip about the gallant and heroic Madame du Frenoy.
Entrance of the Port of Marseille by Claude Joseph Vernet, 1754.
Louvre, Paris (via Wikimedia).
The lady had embarked along with her husband in a Tartane (a small ship used for fishing and coastal trading), bound for Genoa in Italy, and had scarcely lost sight of the port when a Barbary corsair ship was spied making its way...
September 17, 2015
Ani Pachen: ‘Tibetan Joan of Arc’
Ani Pachen was aTibetan tribal princess who became a Buddhist nunand led her tribe against the Chinese.
Pachen Dolma was born in 1933 in Eastern Tibet. Her fatherwas the leaderof her tribe. As a girl growing upshe learned how to ride & shoot, but Pachen (Ani) had a desire for a more peaceful life.
When she was 17 years old she heard of plans to marry her to a chieftan from another tribe. She wasn’t keen on the idea so instead she took herself away to join a Buddhist mo...
Previews: Three from Savas Beatie
Originally posted on Bull Runnings:
Over the past few weeks I’ve received three new titles from Savas Beatie. Here are the vitals:
Resisting Sherman: A Confederate Surgeon’s Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865,is the journal of Dr. Francis Marion Robertson, a surgeon who fled with the Confederate garrison in Charleston, SC, ahead of William T. Sherman’s army as it moved north. The journal has been edited and annotated by the author’s great-great-grandson Thomas Heard Robertson,...
