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December 11, 2017
Justice: Better Late Than Never for Irene Garza
I have an eighty-four year-old friend who has grieved the murder of his childhood friend for fifty-seven years. Until Friday, December 8, 2017, justice was on hold. A jury in Hidalgo County, Texas found her murderer guilty and sentenced him to fifty-seven years in prison. The man is now a frail 85 year-old man, so it is a life sentence. This is appropriate because, he lived his life after taking hers in a heinous way.
Irene Garza was a twenty-five year-old school teacher who had cha...
England’s Reformation
If we ask the question, what if Henry VIII had not taken Catherine of Aragon to be his wife, would England have been a happier place to live?
The twelve-year-old Catherine of Aragon, had been betrothed to Henry’s older brother; Arthur. Catherine, aged sixteen, married the fifteen-year-old Arthur on the 14th November 1501 at St.Paul’s Cathedral. Arthur died a few months later, leaving a young wife.
Henry became the next in line, to the English throne, and sought to...
December 10, 2017
Visit Marsaxlokk, a Traditional Fishing Village in Malta
MARSAXLOKK, MALTA’S FAVOURITE FISHING VILLAGE
Marsaxlokk is a picturesque fishing port and village in the south-eastern region of Malta. The location of Malta’s largest and oldest fishing harbour, Marsaxlokk remains famous for all things seafood! In fact, some of the best fish restaurants in Malta can be found here so it’s the perfect place to sample the local catch. An open-air market operates daily, but it is on Sunday’s that Marsaxlokk comes to life. The Sunday fish market is...
December 7, 2017
Gop Hill Cairn, Trelawnyd, Flintshire (Sir y Fflint), Wales
Gop Hill Cairn (from the Howard Williams website: Archeodeath).
OS Grid Reference: SJ 08675 80152. A huge oval-shaped prehistoric cairn (tumulus) surrounded by forestry on the south-side of Gop Hill (Y Gop), a of a mile to the north of Trelawnyd village, about halfway between Holywell and Rhuddlan, Flintshire, northeast Wales. Also known as Garn Gop Cairn or in Welsh – Gop’r Leni. It is thought to date from either the Neolithic or Bronze Age. Gop Cairn is almost...
It’s All About The Bass! (Part 3)
Not Such a Fine Romance: Clementina Walkinshaw and Prince Charles Edward Stuart
Over on the English Historical Fiction Authors’ site, my post on Clementina Walkinshaw and her affair with Bonnie Prince Charlie…
Clementina Maria Sophia Walkinshaw c 1760
Prince Charles Edward Stuart, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, was the very stuff of romance. A gallant prince, eldest son of James III/VIII (the Young Pretender to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland), known for his charm, and a lost cause… Who could resist such a creature? Surprisingly, ther...
The Bonassus
According to a book by John Barrow of 1749, the Bonassus was
a kind of wild ox, as high as a bull and bigger than a common ox. His flesh is very good. His horns are an astringent.
For a travelling fair owner, Earl James and Sons, the creature was far, far more than that very plain description. In the early 1820s Earl James acquired this amazing beast and described it in the following glowing terms:
This huge, terrific and extraordinary animal, which has, for the last eigh...
December 5, 2017
A Magical Sleigh Ride
Christmas History 27. The following quote is taken from Sketches of New England, or Memories of the Country (1842) by Nathaniel Shatswell. He describes taking a sleigh ride to visit a neighbour, some festivities, and then a moonlit sleigh ride that turns into a race.
If there is snow on the ground, however, everything assumes a different aspect. No sooner is dinner passed, than a project is on foot to drive over to some country neighbor’s, ten or fifteen miles off. The...
