Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 58
November 18, 2016
Hallelujah, Amen and Goodbye Leonard Cohen.
If It Happened Yesterday, It's History
My thoughts are with Leonard Cohen’s family and friends during this sad time. Yesterday, we lost one of the most gifted lyricists in music whose work spanned almost fifty years.
Hailing from Westmount, Canada, Leonard Cohen was interestingly a poet and novelist long before he became an acclaimed songwriter and artist. In the years since his musical debut in 1968, Cohen’s remarkable career produced an inspirational and haunting collection of songs that...
2. Making the Nemes Crown: Snake and Vulture
Arch, poised to stike, the deadly cobra sits in the middle of the Pharoah’s forehead. Which Pharoah? Each and every pharoah and king of Egypt it seems from Narmer in the Old Kingdom all the w…
Source: 2. Making the Nemes Crown: Snake and Vulture
November 16, 2016
The Morning After
Victoria Adams' Reading Alcove
It is difficult, when you are building a public face, to know how and when to respond. As an author, I do have to consider the public; but I also must remain true to my own beliefs; beliefs and positions well documented throughout this website. So, here goes my interpretation of where we are the morning after.
Perhaps this election may finally force us to look in the mirror, to see what America has become without make up, the pretty clothes, whitened teeth, and...
George Washington’s Two Revolutionary Sons
Great post
George Washington, General of the Continental Army
George Washington had no children of his own, although he raised two step-children, and was considered a responsible and affectionate parent.
GW: The Revolutionary War
When the Revolutionary War began in 1775, George Washington was 43 years old. Having served in the Virginia Militia in his youth, rising to the rank of Colonel, he was considered the highest ranking “American” officer. He was appointed Ge...
2. Making the Nemes Crown: Snake and Vulture
Arch, poised to stike, the deadly cobra sits in the middle of the Pharoah’s forehead. Which Pharoah? Each and every pharoah and king of Egypt it seems from Narmer in the Old Kingdom all the way down to Cleopatra, a couple of thousand years later. So what is King Tut doing putting a bird next to it? Even his heretic father, Akenaten didn’t do that. It seems that this combination of snake and bird is idiosyncratic to Tutankhamun and perhaps his wife, Ankhesenamun. If I was to re...
November 15, 2016
Legends of the sea
There have always been rumours of mermaids and mermen in the seas, and these appear to have been seen on a fairly regular basis during the eighteenth-century with the newspapers so helpfully provid…
Source: Legends of the sea
Conan Doyle vs. Kipling in the Question of Spiritualism
Since the arrival of spiritualism in Britain people have been curious about it. Many went out of their way to prove it untrue, like Houdini, while others resolutely believed in it. (WikiCommons) In an anonymous letter to The Courier in 1919, the fashion for communicating with the dead was captured in a description of “mothers and friends of fallen soldiers resorting to table-rapping, creakings, automatic writing through the medium of the planchette, Ouija, heliograph et...
The Theft of the Great Seal, 1784
The Great Seal is attached to the official documents of state that require the authorization of the monarch to implement the advice of the government.
Lord Chancellor, Edward Thurlow by Thomas Phillips, oil on canvas, 1806 Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery
On the night of 23rd March 1784, thieves had entered Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow’sGreat Ormond Street house and stolensome money, but more importantly they stole the Great Seal, a symbol of royal authori...
Regency Personalities Series-Augusta Leigh
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency (I include those who were born before 1811 and who died after 1795), today I continue with one of themany period notables.
Augusta LeighnéeByron
26 January 1783 – 12 October 1851
Augusta Leigh
Augusta Leigh ‘s mother died soon after her birth. Her grandmother, Lady Holderness, raised Augusta for a few years, but died when Augusta was still a young girl, and the child divi...
November 14, 2016
Lady Margaret Beaufort – Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
Margaret was born on 31st May 1443 during a period of instability known as the War of the Roses. Her father was the great-grandson of Edward III and she was a wealthy heiress. She was well educated and highly religious.
To help secure his fragile reign Henry VI proposed the marriage of Margaret to his half-brother Edmund Tudor. While girls could legally marry at the age of twelve, it was usual for them to remain with their parents until they were old enough to safely have children. However,...
