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May 2, 2016
Ida McKinley: Congressional Invalid
Ida McKinley had suffered through one of the worst years anyone could imagine. The trauma would be permanent.
William and Ida McKinley were a devoted, loving couple, despite Ida’s serious – and severe – health issues.
The McKinleys Move to Washington
Little Katie McKinley. The child died before her fourth birthday, and her picture was never far from Ida’s view.
Losing both their small children, and having his young wife’s health permanently impaired by phlebitis...
The Funerary Procession of Queen Elizabeth I
28 APRIL 1603: Elizabeth I’s Funerary Procession took place. She was carried from Whitehall to Westminster Abbey where she was laid to rest on the Lady Chapel.
“It was an impressive occasion: the hearse was drawn by four horses hung with black velvet, surmounted by a life-sized wax effigy of the late Queen, dressed in her state robes and crown, an orb and scepter in its hands; over it was a canopy of state supported by six earls.” (Weir)
The procession was followed...
Ancient set of antlers found on beach in Wales
Weeks after first being spotted on a beach along the coast of Wales, researchers have recovered an impressive set of antlers that belonged to a red deer believed to have lived at least 4,000 years ago.
Researchers from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David are examining the remains, which include part of the skull, discovered on a beach in Borth, seven miles north of Aberystwyth, in the Welsh county of Ceredigion.
The remains were first sighted in early Apri...
Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
At the base of Tamworth Castle can be seen the statue of an armed woman protectively holding a child. The child is Athelstan but the woman is not his mother. Her name is Aethelflaed (Æthelflæd), and she was one of the greatest warrior-leaders in Anglo-Saxon history.
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May 1, 2016
6×9: a virtual experience of solitary confinement – 360 video
Take the 360 degree video experience of solitary confinement in US prisons, which places viewers in a virtual segregation cell they can explore and interact with. It highlights the psychological effects of long-term solitary confinement for people who have experienced it first-hand around the world.
69: the full virtual reality experience of solitary confinement http://www.theguardian.com/solitary-vr
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Katherine Willoughby, the Puritan Duchess
History... the interesting bits!
Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk
Maria de Salinas was a lady-in-waiting and close friend to Katherine of Aragon; indeed, she probably came to England with the Spanish princess in 1501 for the marriage to Henry’s older brother, Arthur, Prince of Wales. Katherine and Maria were very close and the Spanish ambassador complained of Maria’s influence over the queen, especially after she tried to persuade Katherine not to cooperate with the ambassador and...
April 30, 2016
Medical Apartheid
The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
by Harriet A. Washington
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment.
Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between...
April 29, 2016
Remembering Susan Howard Boice
by Beverly Perna Sue Boice died on July 16, 2013,but word got around town slowly that she had passed. I didn’t know until August 24th when a friend called and asked me to go to a Native American m…
Source: Remembering Susan Howard Boice
