Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 51
January 10, 2017
January 9, 2017
My Health Update Jan. 9, 2017
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My Phlebotomy treatments continue because iron levels still haven’t gone down.
I continue to need help but don’t know how to ask because I am not used to asking for anything from anyone.
I need help with car and food and groceries either through PayPal at chrmeldan3@yahoo.com or message me by messenger on FaceBook or email me if you can help. Email is chrmeldan3@yahoo.com. Please share and help me get the things I need to continue my treatment for Hemochromastosis(iron overload), for which...
Matilda of Flanders: Wife of William I
Matilda of Flanders
Matilda of Flanders, was born in 1031 to parents Baldwin V the Count of Flanders and Adele of France, daughter of Robert II of France and Constance of Arles. Matilda’s mother Adele was a religious woman, later known as “Adele the Holy,” who oversaw her daughter’s education.
Matilda’s early years were spent in Lille, Northern France. She fell in love with Brihtric an English Ambassador to Flanders, but he rebuffed her advances. Some years later s...
St Paul’s Cathedral to Moorgate: The Influence of The Great Fire of London
A warm welcome to a new week, and a new walk! This instalment takes me from the iconic St Paul’s Cathedral past the financial district of Bank before finishing in Finsbury Circus in Moorgate. So grab your boots, and let’s get walking!
St Paul’s Cathedral to Moorgate
My journey begins at St Paul’s Cathedral which has had a dedication to Paul the Apostle (St Paul) on itssite since AD 604.
The grand St Paul’s Cathedral
The cathedral we see today is at least the fourth to have...
St Paul’s Cathedral to Moorgate: The Influence of The Great Fire of London
A warm welcome to a new week, and a new walk! This instalment takes me from the iconic St Paul’s Cathedral past the financial district of Bank before finishing in Finsbury Circus in Moorgate. So grab your boots, and let’s get walking!
St Paul’s Cathedral to Moorgate
My journey begins at St Paul’s Cathedral which has had a dedication to Paul the Apostle (St Paul) on itssite since AD 604.
The grand St Paul’s Cathedral
The cathedral we see today is at least the fourth to have...
January 6, 2017
Col. George S. Patton and the Last Battle of Winchester
Gen. George S. Patton was one of America’s premier military commanders in World War II. His family tree included his grandfather Col. George S. Patton, a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, who gave his life for the Confederate cause at the Last Battle of Winchester. Patton had had raised the 22nd Virginia Infantry in the Kanawha Valley and spent most of the War Between the States campaigning in the mountains of what is now West Virginia and Southwest Virginia. He su...
January 5, 2017
It Came From the Vault: Vincent and Me – Garth Von Buchholz
Vincent and Me
By Garth Von Buchholz
I wanted to meet Vincent Price. In the late ‘80s, Vincent was in his ’70s but still famous to my generation as for all his kitschy horror cameos in music, movies and TV. His voice was heard in Alice Cooper’s music, he narrated the early Tim Burton animated film Vincent, and he even appeared on Scooby-Doo cartoons, Sesame Street and TV commercials, such as the one for the bug zapper device. His last major film role was the Inventor in Ed...
January 4, 2017
Photographer captures fury of Pacific Coast storm
The above photograph,taken byphotographer Larry Gerbrandt, showsSanta Cruz Lighthouse during a California winter storm earlier this year.
The spectacular image was named the best photo of 2016 by the National Weather Service Forecast Office for the San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey area.
Gerbrandt, of San Juan Bautista, Calif., said he checked the tide tables and learned not only when high tide would take place along the Monterey Bay, but that a so-called “king tide...
The Golden Age of Gift-Giving
Before the Victorians and the twentieth century transformed Christmas into the extravaganza that it is today, New Year’s Day–in the midst of an extended Christmastide– was the occasion for offering and receiving gifts. We know a lot about the meaning and materiality of gifts in Tudor England because of some extraordinary records, and several recent works which have transcribed and interpreted them for all of us, most notably Jane Lawson’s momentous transcription of 24 survivin...
Man’s Early Steps: Hieroglyphs… Writing… Alphabet…
Cave Man Paintings
When we look around to-day, at how things are, and how much our daily lives rely on the art of writing. We have to wonder how difficult it must have been in those early times, before writing and the alphabet came into existence.
Cave man, our ancestors early inventions were the hunting club to kill its prey, sharpened stones to skin its prey, and shaped as a weapon. They produced an early form of writing instrument, made out of stone, and sharpen...
