Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 162
December 23, 2014
Morocco. Lights
Originally posted on Natalia Maks:
All type of Moroccan lights are just fantastic. I couldn���t skip creating a collection with lanterns, street lights, lights I���d seen��at the hotels, shops and restaurants��over there. I wanted to bring all of them with me back home and have a seating room decorated in��Moroccan��style.
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Tracee Ford is an award-winning novelist. Her work is published by Injected Ink, an imprint of PDMI Publishing, LLC. Ford is a member of the Paranormal Romance Guild and her second novel, Idolum: Visions of the Undone, was nominated by the PRG for best paranormal romantic suspense novel of 2013, securing and winning second place.
Ford is a playwright, director, and puppeteer. She writes paranormal romance, romantic suspense, and crime novels. She finished her first novel at age sixteen. Early...
December 22, 2014
Grave of St Nicholas, Newtown Jerpoint, Co. Kilkenny, Southern Ireland
Originally posted on The Journal of Antiquities:
Tomb of St Nicholas (Santa Claus). Photo Credit: Wikipedia.
Irish grid reference: S 5679 4042. In the old churchyard at the west-side of the ruined medieval church of St Nicholas at Newtown��Jerpoint, Co. Kilkenny, stands the medieval carved gravestone, reputed to be where the remains of St Nicholas of Myra (yes, the original Santy, St Nick, Santa Claus or Klaus), were laid to rest here back in the year 1300 and, a beautifully carved graveslab��...
The Fayum mummy portraits
Originally posted on A Blast From The Past:
Some Fayum portraits, dating collectively to the period AD 70-250. The numbers refer to discussions in the text.
She is very beautiful. Her face is flawless: long and lightly tanned, the��nose long too, but��neat and narrow, the��brows crafted, the��chin just firm enough to suggest a certain liveliness of character. She has dark hair, and��one gets the distinct impression that it has potential for unruliness, but it has been called to order and fashi...
A Battle of Fredericksburg Poem Becomes a Song Performed by Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, and Many Others
Originally posted on Mysteries and Conundrums:
from: Harrison
What is the best-known image of the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg? It may be one based on an artwork or artifact highlighting the courage shown by Federal bridge-builders on the Rappahannock, or by the men who charged Marye���s Heights and the Stone Wall. Or perhaps it���s a counterpart image highlighting the same quality among the Confederates who opposed them at those places or at Prospect Hill. Many among us may think first of pi...
December 15, 2014
The Honjo Masamune: A Lost Japanese Treasure
Originally posted on The Daily Beagle:
The katana, or samurai sword, is famed throughout the world for being the perfection of sword design. It has become the symbol of the samurai class, and Japan as a whole, to the outside world. To the Japanese the katana is also a symbol of their culture and national pride. During the Meiji restoration at the end of the 19th century (that sought to bring Japan into the modern world) many samurai rose in rebellion when the government sought to deprive them...
What is a Quest?
Originally posted on Victoria Adams' Reading Alcove:
The Quest by Nelson DeMille. Available for under $10.00
This weekend I admittedly faced the need for recharging. Sometimes you get so wrapped up in meeting deadline after deadline and solving all the issues, great and small in life, that you suddenly find yourself walking on thin air. With no certain knowledge that you can fly. It was, perhaps, an excellent place from which to venture into Nelson DeMille���s The Quest.
Nelson DeMille is, to m...
