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April 16, 2017
Ela: Heiress, Wife and Abbess
History... the interesting bits!
Ela of Salisbury was intended to be one of my Heroines of the Medieval World; however I ran out of words before I could tell her story – I had a word limit of 110,000 and poor Ela was one of the victims of this. So, I decide I would turn her into a blog post instead.
Ela was born at Amesbury in Wiltshire in 1187. She was the only surviving child – and sole heir – of William FitzPatrick, earl of Salisbury, and his wife, Eleanor de Vitré. Her father was a desce...
April 14, 2017
April 13, 2017
Theodore Roosevelt: Sailor and Soldier
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, man of a zillion interests, always loved the military.
TR: The Sailors’ Nephew
Theodore Roosevelt was a little child during the tumultuous Civil War years. His was a well-to-do prominent New York family, but his mother, Martha (Mittie) Bulloch, was a born into an equally well-to-do and prominent Georgia family.
To the eternal chagrin of his son, TR Sr, in his thirties, purchased a substitute to serve in the Union Army rath...
The Blowing Stone, Kingstone Lisle, Berkshire (Oxfordshire)
Blowing Stone at Kingstone Lisle, Berks.
OS Grid Reference: SU 32408 87078. A strange and curious stone standing inside a fenced-off area next to a row of quaint cottages on Blowingstone Hill, at Kingstone Lisle, formerly in Berkshire, now Oxfordshire, is the so-called ‘Blowing Stone’, a squat-shaped lump of ancient rock with deep holes in it that is ‘said’ to have originated on White Horse Hill nearby, when it was a perforated sarsen stone. It has a number of...
Track of the Day – WICKED TONGUES ‘Feral Gods’
A few years ago, I reviewed Wicked Tongues fantastic EP ‘Jackals‘, and now the band is back with a full-length album titled ‘Color of Attack’. The first single and video off that album is “Feral Gods”.
‘Color of Attack’ is set for release this summer, but I’ve been lucky enough to listen to the album already, and it is a smashingly excellent release. While ‘Jackals’ was good, this is definitely a new level of awesome for the band. “Feral Gods” is one of my favourite tracks fr...
Ireland’s Civil War – when truth was stranger than fiction…
Michael Collins makes for an easy hero – good-looking, vibrant, devil-may-care, intelligent, ruthless, brilliant, passionate, loyal… what’s not to love? But he was petulant, too, and careless, and unpredictable and argumentative and arrogant and single-minded. It’s why he appeals to so many people – he’s loved for his flaws as much as his finer traits.
When Collins was buried in 1922 following his fatal ambush at Beal na mBlath, friend and foe wept. And in his dying – gun i...
April 10, 2017
Psychological Horror: The Scariest Of Them All By: Kenzie Kordic
Psychological Horror: The Scariest Of Them All
By: Kenzie Kordic
There are so many different subgenres within the horror genre as a whole. I can think of upwards of twenty. There’s sci-fi horror to romance horror and everything in between that contributes to my personal favorite type of media. Psychological horror is a horror that I feel as though is rarely tapped compared to others such as paranormal, slasher, and much more. Psychological horror is hands down the scariest...
20,000 Sheep
Fascinating
“Shepherdess Tending Sheep” by Winslow Homer.
Snippets 112. During the 19th and early 20th Centuries a sheep fair was held annually at Westbury, near Salisbury. At the tail end of the 19th Century it had become a huge affair, with nearly 100,000 sheep. In fact it resulted in some cause for concern when school attendance suffered greatly, with all the children wanting to be off school seeing the sheep! By the time Richard Le Gallienne visited Salisbury and wr...
