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July 20, 2014
Matthew Ryan Historical Illustrator
Originally posted on Lenora's Culture Center and Foray into History:
Matthew has always had an interest in drawing and painting since he was a small child. He has been inspired by the works of John Howe and Alan Lee. He was also inspired by the Illustrations of Knights by Julek Heller.
Matthew studied for his H. N. D. in Visual Communications and also for a degree in Illustration. He worked for 11 years as a sign writer/advertiser, but his passion lay in art and history,especially the Medieval...
July 19, 2014
Queen Anne of Great Britain ~ A Guest Post by Samantha Arbisi Hanson
Love this time in history. Great post.
Originally posted on The Freelance History Writer:
Queen Anne Stuart of Great Britain
Samantha is an avid historian and writer and joins us today with a post on Anne Stuart, Queen of Great Britain. You can follow her on her Facebook page Today in Dead Royalty and on Twitter.
Born in 1665, Anne did not look the part of the usual Stuarts. She would grow up to be short and stout, unlike her tall and beautiful relatives. However, she would make just...
July 16, 2014
Ghost Towns: Oradour-sur-Glane, France
Originally posted on The Witching Hour:
Oradour sur Glane Before the War
When our group decided to do a series on ghost towns, I was all for it. Being American, the ghost towns I am acquainted with are mostly relics of mining boomtowns. They’re all over the country…despite popular expectations, comparatively few of these ghost towns are actually from the gold rush era. Many of these ghost towns were built around coal mines, or phosphate mines, etc…and quite a few of the towns were formed as fa...
July 10, 2014
The Crooked Forest of Gryfino (a brief history of…)
Originally posted on If It Happened Yesterday, It's History:
(The “crooked forest” near Gryfino, Poland. Image: Wikipedia)
The world is an amazing place where sometimes we can find truly beautiful and very strange things. In a small pocket in north west Poland near the town of Gryfino is an example of such a place. The “Crooked Forest” of Gryfino is a small orchard of oddly shaped pine trees that grow with a 90 degree bend at their base. With some four hundred trees in the orchard that mostly...
July 9, 2014
The Roman Lighthouse, Dover, Kent
Originally posted on The Journal of Antiquities:
Roman Lighthouse, Dover, Kent (photo credit: Garry Hogg)
Os grid reference TR3260 4181. At the south-eastern side of Dover, Kent,along Mortimer Roadon the promontory called Eastern Heights and in the grounds of Dover Castle, a 12th century Norman strong-hold,stands a‘reasonably’ well-preservedRoman Lighthouseor Pharos, dating from around 46-50 AD (during the reign of the Emperor Claudius 41-54 AD)and,just after the invasion of Britain in 43 AD;t...
July 8, 2014
500 Year-Old Skeleton Of Knight Unearthed In Scotland
Originally posted on YouViewed/Editorial:
Medieval Knight Found In Edinburgh Parking Lot
” Construction workers called archaeologists when they came across a sandstone slab carved with a cross and sword, a sign of the nobility. They were clearing a former parking lot behind a University of Edinburgh building when they made the find, The ScotsmanreportedWednesday.
Archaeologists who arrived at the scene then discovered the 500-year-old remains of an adult man believed to be a medieval knight or...
Women in Military And Intelligence History
Originally posted on Librarian From Alaska:
If your library or school are looking for some off the beaten path resources for Women?s History Month, try some of these:
Women in Intelligence reading list from CIA
Women in American Cryptology from NSA
Free A Marine to Fight: Women Marines in World War II
Women Pilots with the AAF, 1941-1944
World War II era WAVES
History of women in the Coast Guard
A history of the Women Marines, 1946-1977
Women in the US...
Church of St Mael and St Sulien, Corwen, Denbighshire, Wales
Originally posted on The Journal of Antiquities:
Celtic Cross in Corwen churchyard(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Os grid reference SJ07884341.Near the centre of the little town of Corwen, in the Dee Valley,beside Chapel street and London road (A5) stands theparishchurchof St Mael and StSulien,a building that dates back to the 12th-15thcenturies, although there was an earlier, Normanchurch on this siteas far back as the 12th century and, probably even further back to the 6th century AD.The church ho...
Paul Brady: An Irish Bard
Originally posted on The Immortal Jukebox:
Paul Brady was 67 this month. Here’s a tribute.
Bard: A tribal poet – singer skilled gifted in composing and reciting verses of satire and eulogy on heroes and their deeds.
‘Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake’. (Richard Sennett)
‘Some guys got it down …. Paul Brady …. Secret heroes’. (Bob Dylan)
Paul Brady harbours and husbands extraordinary talents. He is a great singer of traditional balla...
Once in a blue moon a poem : Static
Originally posted on The Immortal Jukebox:
Once or twice a year when the stars are in their correct alignment and the muse comes to call I find myself moved to write a poem. I present one below that came unbidden one Sunday afternoon some years ago just after I had listened to a commentary on an Irish hurling match between arch county rivals Tipperary and Kilkenny.
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Sundays in summer my father took me with him to hear the Gaelic Games
Hurling, of course, a Tippe...
