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LaHave

Originally posted on Exequy's Blog:

LaHave, once the capital of Acadia/ Nova Scotia, is located across the river from Riverport and approximately 15 kilometres from the town of Bridgewater. It is now a small scenic village located on Highway 331 at the mouth of the 97 km long LaHave River in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.

Mi’kmaq Settlement and French colony

La Have was an important centre for the Mi’kmaq people, who traded with Europeans. Messamouet, a well-known sakmow, or Chief, of the M...

The Joyce Theatre’s Ballet Festival | MOVE: The Company Joshua Beamish & The Chamber Dance Project…

Originally posted on NYC Dance Stuff:

Joshua Beamish, MOVE the company. Joshua Beamish (c)David Cooper

The Joyce Theatre’s Ballet Festival (Aug 4th-16th) presents six young companies that are changing the face of ballet. Each of the six companies will be given two nights to present their work. The festival is a follow up of the highly successful Ballet 6.0 from 2013.

Move: The Company Joshua Beamishopened the performance with excerpts from Mr. Beamish’s 2012 work Pierced. There were two s...

Daughter of Tragedy: The Birth of Margaret Pole

Originally posted on tudors & other histories:

Margaret Pole was born at Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Bath on the 14th of August in 1473. Her parents were George Plantagenet -the younger brother of Edward IV- and Isabel Neville -the eldest daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, better known as the “Kingmaker”. As a daughter of York, Margaret Plantagenet was entitled to a life of privilege, however her mother’s sudden death in childbirth and her father’s arrest and execution (after h...

Regency Personalities Series-Francis Egerton 8th Earl of Bridgewater

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.

Francis Henry Egerton 8th Earl of Bridgewater
11 November 1756 – 11 February 1829

Francis Henry Egerton

Francis Egerton 8th Earl of Bridgewater was a son of John Egerton, Bishop of Durham and Anne Sophia Grey. His maternal grandparents were Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent and his second wife Sophia B...

Emilie Todd: Mary Lincoln’s Little Sister

Originally posted on Presidential History Blog:

Mary Todd Lincoln came from a huge family. There were fourteen children.

Children and Steps:

Mary Todd was the fourth of six children born to Robert Smith Todd and his first wife, Elizabeth Parker. She died when Mary was only six, and a year and half later, her father remarried, as was very common at the time. He and his new wife, Betsey Humphreys would have another eight surviving children.

Emilie Todd Helm, Mary Lincoln’s baby sister, was s...

‘The Flag that Has Given Protection to Persecuted Countrymen’: An Irishman’s Service to Union & Parents

Originally posted on Irish in the American Civil War:

Perhaps one of the best known of all Irishmen to serve during the American Civil War was Buster Kilrain of the 20th Maine Infantry. Buster plays a major role in Michael Shaara’s novel The Killer Angels, and was portrayed by actor Kevin Conway in the film Gettysburg. Kilrain, a loyal soldier and confidant of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, died of wounds received during the 20th’s famed actions on Little Round Top at Gettysburg. Of course Bus...

Swedish Scandal

Originally posted on History Witch:

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Cecilia of Sweden, or rather Cecilia Gustavsdotter Vasa, was born on November 16, 1540 in Stockholm, Sweden.

She was considered the most beautiful of Gustav I’s daughters, but often referred to as “the black sheep” due to a FABULOUS Scandal. I like her already.

Cecilia’s sister Catherine married Edzard II, Count of East Frisia, on October 1, 1559. The couple left for Ostfriesland a month later, accompanied by Edzard’s brothe...

Reviews ~ Losing a Mind

Originally posted on Victoria Adams' Reading Alcove:

Still Aliceby Lisa Genova available for $7-18

I was introduced to this title through a Facebook support group of folks dealing primarily with the various forms of dementia and primarily as caregivers. There are a few professionals in the group, as well as a few who have been recently diagnosed with one of the many forms of the disease. If you are a caregiver reading this I highly recommend the group. There are now over 20,000 members from...

Warring Worlds and Grinding Gears – a Beginners Guide to Steampunk Wargames (Andrew Knighton Guest Post #3)

Originally posted on For Whom the Gear Turns:

Despite their destructive theme, tabletop wargames are full of creativity, from the professionals writing rules and sculpting miniatures through to the enthusiasts building terrain and painting figures. Whether you want to play at steam powered warfare, or just collect wild and fascinating toys, then there’s a steampunk wargame option for you.

Pop Sculpture – the Miniatures

Like pop music and self-publishing, wargames miniatures are the sort of a...

Thomas Cromwell’s Execution

Originally posted on tudors & other histories:

On July the 28th 1540, Thomas Cromwell was executed at Tower Hill. He was one of Henry’s most devoted servants and yet he, like so many others, met the same end. One day before his death, he was visited by the archbishop of Canterbury [Thomas Cranmer] and Seymour to inform him of his death-sentence. Seymour added that “it was God’s will that you should live no longer. It seems you have learned well from the Cardinal.”

The reason for his impris...