Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 70
September 5, 2016
Celebrating Alastair Sim
A personal guide to classic films ...
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the death of the Scot who was arguably the most popular comedy actor that Britain ever produced. Alastair Sim, who died on August 19, 1976 at the age of 75, was a comedy genius. He loved to make people laugh and left behind some of the most memorable performances in British cinema history. In just 25 years, he clocked up an impressive 61 films, many of them classics and all of them worth watching for his performanc...
Barbaric Act by English Templar
Mass execution at Acre
King Richard I (The Lionheart) a skilled warrior much remembered for his crusading exploits in the Holy Land. Richard showed his true colours at Acre, a cruel and merciless warrior.
His crusaders faced the might of Saladin’s army, and the prize on offer; Acre Castle.
On the 12th July 1192, the crusaders were victorious, for they had captured Acre Castle and taken 3,000 prisoners.
Richard demanded a ransom of Saladin for the lives of the 3,000 captive...
A First Period house with a faux-Gothic entrance
30 East Street, the John Potter house
The lotatthe corner of East street and “Hog Lane,” nowknown as Spring St. was owned in 1648by Francis Jordan the town-whipper, whose gruesome business it was to lay the lashupon the backs of evil-doers at the public whipping-post. Ironically in1655,the owner wasJeffrey Snelling, a man of questionable character who had surelyfelt the sting of Jordan’s lashmore than once.John Potter purchased the lot in 1708 with all the buildings, in...
Queen Katherine Parr: Pregnant, At Last!
Katherine Parr (Deborah Kerr) and Lord Seymour (Stewart Granger) in “Young Bess” (1953); A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture.
In December of 1547, Queen Katherine Parr became pregnant for what most people believe to be the first time by her fourth and final husband, Sir Thomas Seymour. After four husbands and twenty years of marriage, Katherine was about to fulfill what she felt was the primary duty of a wife, to give birth to a healthy baby; boys being preferred in aristocratic circ...
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of Mexico’s greatest artists. Born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon in Coyocoán, Mexico City to a Mexican mother and German father, her early life was spent in Casa Azul (the Blue House) which today houses a museum dedicated to her life and work. She was influenced by indigenous Mexican culture as well as religious and political themes, and is most famous for her self-portraits. she once said, “I paint my own reality”.
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The Great Fire of London (Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, 1666) — The Lost City of London
On this fateful day in 1666, Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary: “ … Jane called us up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire … in the City. So I rose, and slipped on my night-gown, an…
Source: The Great Fire of London (Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, 1666) — The Lost City of London
September 4, 2016
‘Beyond the Power of My Feeble Pen’: The Fate of a Limerick Octogenarian’s Sons in the West, 1862
Irish in the American Civil War
Limerickman Patrick Vaughan had lived a long life by the 1860s. He was born sometime around 1783, the year that the conflict between the American Colonies and Britain had finally drawn to a close. Whenrebellion broke out in Ireland and French troops marched to their support in 1798, Patrick was a teenager.He was in his early twentieswhen Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed himself Emperor in 1804,and in his thirties by the time the ‘Little Corporal’had his last hurr...
September 3, 2016
Old North Burying Ground index and photos
The Old North Burying Groundin Ipswich, Massachusetts was established in 1634 upon the founding of the town of the town, and is one of the oldest cemeteries in North America. The Old North Burying Ground islocated at the intersection of High Street and Rt 133/1A.View at Google maps.
Index by maplocation Alphabetical index of graves Section maps InscriptionsA-C,D-G,H-K,L-Z Complete guide tothe Old North Burying Ground (PDF/Print) Read more at the Ipswich Historical Comm...Book Corner: Margaret Pole, the Countess in the Tower by Susan Higginbotham
History... the interesting bits!
Of the many executions ordered by Henry VIII, surely the most horrifying was that of sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, hacked to pieces on the scaffold by a blundering headsman.
From the start, Margaret’s life had been marred by tragedy and violence: her father, George, Duke of Clarence, had been executed at the order of his own brother, Edward IV, and her naive young brother, Edward, Earl of Warwick, had spent most of his life in th...
