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June 27, 2016
The Art of Subtle Communication
Victoria Adams' Reading Alcove
Something different today, primarily because I promised a dear friend of mine, Stacy J. Garrett, to support her project, “The Door.” Stacy has an amazing talent to draw her audience into the magic she sees through her camera lens. The Door is a project that shows us the hidden world, the one we forget as we grow older; even though we may need it even more.
Stacy has created a game as part of her fundraiser. A scavenger hunt, if you will, where words are tucked...
Track of the Day: Come Waste Your Life – Dreamsphere
My track of the day comes from Dreamsphere. “Come Waste Your Life” is the 3rd single from their debut album “The Darkest Experience”, which was released in April.
The album is available to stream and purchase via their record company’s Bandcamp: http://holierthanthourecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-darkest-experience
Band bio:
Dreamsphere are an international alt-metal band originating from Ljubljana-Slovenia, formed by the youngest members, Condemnatio Cristi and Noctiferia i...
Billy Trevitt & Micheal Nunn in Russell Maliphant’s “Torsion”….
Torsion
(Premiere: 2012)
Choreography: Russell Maliphant
Dancers: Michael Nunn & William Trevitt
(Co-Artistic Directors for Ballet Boyz)
Music: Richard English
Director: Grant Gee
Billy Trevitt & Micheal Nunn in Russell Maliphant’s “Torsion” from 2012,
Olive Schreiner
South African writer Olive Schreiner was born in what is now Lesotho on 24 March 1855. The ninth of twelve children born to Rebecca Lyndall and her husband, Gottlob Schreiner (1814–1876), a German-born missionary, she and just six of her siblings survived childhood. In adulthood, she suffered debilitating ill-health, exacerbated for a time by grinding poverty.
For a time, Schreiner earned a living as a governess and teacher, but she devoted her free time to writing The Story of an African F...
June 25, 2016
Bamberg, Germany: The Early Modern Witch Burning Stronghold
History... the interesting bits!
Today I would like to extend a warm and hearty welcome to Laura Libricz, with my first ever guest blog post. Thank you to Laura for taking the time to write this wonderful article on witchcraft in Germany. Over to Laura:
Kirche und Teufel
Throughout the dark ages, Christianity had difficulties setting down roots among the Germanic tribes. Stories are told of saints who came to the German people and...
June 24, 2016
Simon’s Cross, Simonstone, Near Padiham, Lancashire
Simon’s Cross near Simonstone, Lancashire.
OS grid reference: SD 7760 3609.Upon White Hilland just beside ShadyWalksat thenorth-side of Simonstone, near Padiham, Lanca-shire, is a large boulder with a deep socket hole.This is, in fact, the cross-base of a Medieval wayside cross which was known locally as ‘Simon’s Cross’, ‘Simon’s Stone’or sometimes ‘Wart Well’. Very little is known aboutits history and who it was named for, or who actually erected the cross. The...
“I Sprung from A Kindred Race”: George McClellan Cultivates the Irish Vote, 1863
Irish in the American Civil War
The Irish of the North overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Party during the period of the American Civil War. Manyhad little time for Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans, and in the 1864 Presidential Election most rowed behind George McClellan– the former commander of the Army of the Potomac– who was hugely popular among the Irish. Though his Democratic affiliations made him the natural choice for many Irish, McClellan nonetheless hadput work into endearin...
The Guillotine: Does death by decapitation equal instant death?
On the 17th of June 1939, Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, was guillotined in Versailles outside Saint-Pierre prison. He was the last person to be guillotined in public. Since then, until the 10th of September 1977 and the last ever execution by guillotine performed on Hamida Djandoubi, all executions by guillotine were done in private. The description of the execution published in LIFE magazine on the 10th of July 1939, left no doubt that this kind of spectacle, evoking rath...
June 23, 2016
The funeral of Charles Henry Mordaunt, 5th Earl of Peterborough
Charles Henry Mordaunt, the 5th Earl of Peterborough (and 3rd Earl of Monmouth) and cousin to Grace Dalrymple Elliot did little of note throughout his life apart from embroil himself in a couple of scandals with high-born ladies, and if he is remembered at all to history it is chiefly, as we mention in our book An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliot, on account of his extravagant funeral.
The Earl had died at his Wiltshir...
30 December 1460: The Debt is Paid
On the 30th of December 1460, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York and his forces were caught by surprise by the Queen’s forces at Sandal Castle near Wakefield where they had been stationed for over two weeks. Richard knew the battle was lost and that he would likely die so he sent his son (Edmund, Earl of […]
https://tudorsandotherhistories.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/30-december-1460-the-debt-is-paid/
