Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 24
September 11, 2017
The Birth of Freemasonry
Solomon’s Temple
When we look into the history of the Freemasons, one has to ask, how far back does there history go, and how they came into existence. Their history goes back some 3,000 years; their history comes from the writing’s of Chronicler’s and the Bible.
Solomon’s Temple was built by King Solomon, King Hiram and Hiram Abiff, between 960-953BC, using Phoenician craftsmen. The inner walls were lined with gold, and marble blocks and fine emeralds adorned the temple...
Roman Workbenches & the Trail of Artworks
I don’t know when it happened, but at some point in the research for the book on Roman workbenches, it became a text that would feel at home in the “art history” section of a bookstore.
Researcher Suzanne Ellison, who has a deep love of art, and I spent months poring over texts that discussed Roman and early German tools and woodworking for the letterpress edition of “Roman Workbenches.” After we completed that book, I switched gears to finish up work on other authors’ books...
September 6, 2017
September 5, 2017
American Concentration Camps in Masumi Hayashi’s Photoramas
On the 3rd of September 1945, Japanese-American photographer Masumi Hayashi was born in Rivers, Arizona, in the Gila River War Relocation Camp, an internment camp built by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) for the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Shortly after the end of the war, her family moved to Los Angeles, where she began her education, following which Hayashi moved to Florida, where she received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in fine arts from Florida...
What happened this month in history?
September 8th 1900 The Great Galveston Hurricane. The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history struck one of the nations busiest ports, Galveston, in Texas, in the summer of 1900. Four days prior to the catastrophic disaster that devastated Galveston island, U.S. Weather Bureau sent out warnings of a ‘tropical storm’ moving northwards over Cuba. With forecasters having no way of knowing the storms projected direction, the first of many mistakes were made, when they assumed it wou...
The Aftermath
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake
Snippets 133. According to the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal (Volume 2), an earthquake struck Lisbon on 2nd February 1816. The article goes on to list various ships in the region that experienced the shockwave, but other than that details are hard to come by. In geographical histories, it tends to get overshadowed by the massive earthquake in the region of 1755. When Henry Matthews went on a “tour in pursuit of health” in 1817, his first p...
September 4, 2017
Freemasons: The Royal Society
England was ruled by the Royal House of the Stuarts, and was going through political and social changes, as King Charles I was beheaded for his beliefs in 1649.
It was a time in history, that saw the emergence of the Masonic Royal Society of Sciences and the Arts.
It all started back in 1567, when Sir Thomas Gresham was one of the General Warden’s of Masons.
Gresham College was founded in 1579, at the bequest of Sir Thomas Gresham, as laid down in his will. He even went to...
Lancastrian Monarchy
The Royal House of Lancaster consisted of three monarchs who would rule England and Wales between 1399: Henry IV – Henry V – Henry VI.
The house of Lancaster, was created from a branch of the Plantagenet Dynasty: King Edward III married Philippa of Hainault, and their son John of Grant married Blanche, the Duchess of Lancaster. Their first born, Henry Bolingbroke became King Henry IV of England, the first monarch of the newly created House of Lancaster.
King Henry...
Dr Elizabeth Ross
A reason to remember Tain in North East Scotland is Dr Elizabeth Ross. She wasn’t born there, as her banker father worked in London at the time of her birth, but the family came from the Ross- shire town, and returned after his death. But except for a small plaque in Tain’s St Duthus Church she is almost forgotten. Interestingly this is NOT the case in Serbia. Each year she is commemorated in a ceremony attended by Serbian high ranking dignitaries and many thousands of people. It is a huge...
August 30, 2017
UPDATE ON MY HEALTH by LENORA ROGERS
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I went Thursday for my first phlebotomize treatment . I knew they would have trouble with my veins but they attempted 4 times to get blood flowing by manipulating the needle and tubing and at the 4th attempt they had to sit and continuously manipulate the needle and tube to finally get blood. I have a lot of scaring from surgeries and it is hard to even draw even a little for regular testing, so I will be scheduled to be put to sleep to have a port line put in before the next phlebotomize t...
