Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 99
March 29, 2016
A case of 18th Century Witchcraft in Silsoe Bedfordshire
We came across this curious case in the British Mercury or Annals of History, Politics, Manner, Literature and the Arts 1788 and thought we would share it with you.
A few months since some extraordinary particulars were given in this paper relating to the daughter of Mr. Capon, a considerable farmer at Silsoe, in Bedfordshire, discharging from her stomach 52 brass pins, a pincushion stuck with pins and needles, a pair of small scissors, with an iron chain etc.
The strang...
David’s Haunted Library: Suicide The Hard Way
Suicide The Hard Way: And Other Tales From The Innerzone is a collection of short stories,screenplays and song lyricsby Christopher Alan Broadstone. This anthology hits on subjects s…
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David’s Haunted Library: Suicide The Hard Way
Suicide The Hard Way: And Other Tales From The Innerzone is a collection of short stories,screenplays and song lyricsby Christopher Alan Broadstone. This anthology hits on subjects such as psychological horror, man’s inhumanity to man and obsession. In these pages lies some excellent horror fiction and it shows there is more than one way to scare a reader. One of the things that I thought was interesting about this book was the three screenplays in it plus an essay on th...
David’s Haunted Library: Suicide The Hard Way
Suicide The Hard Way: And Other Tales From The Innerzone is a collection of short stories,screenplays and song lyricsby Christopher Alan Broadstone. This anthology hits on subjects such as psychological horror, man’s inhumanity to man and obsession. In these pages lies some excellent horror fiction and it shows there is more than one way to scare a reader. One of the things that I thought was interesting about this book was the three screenplays in it plus an essay on th...
Glen Magna and the Joseph Peabody Family of Salem
Article by Helen Breen Before the advent of the modern transportation, affluent city dwellers often built their summer residences within a few miles of home. Such was the case when shipping magnate…
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The Proximity Fuze: How Ipswich women helped win WW II
The formerIpswich Mills,now owned by EBSCO, was the site ofoneof the most closely guarded secrets of theSecond World War. The VTproximityfuze (variable time fuse) resembled tubes found in ra…
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March 28, 2016
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg died when she was just 47 years old, and was described as a small, frail woman. But in those 47 years she managed to pack enough in for two lifetimes and leave a huge impression on the world which she left behind.
Rosa was born in Russian-ruled Poland to a Jewish family in 1871, the youngest of 5 children. She was a keen learner from a young age, learning to read and writeby the time she was5. At the same age she suffered a hip complaintwhichleft her with a limp she would liv...
Ghostly Courtiers
I’ve just got a few more English posts before I get back to the actual streets of Salem: I just took so many great pictures over there if I do say so myself! I’m going back to Hampton Court today–the other side of Hampton Court, which if of course a bilateral palace, with a Tudor side and a Baroque/Georgian one, the cumulative work of Sir Christopher Wren and Sir John Vanbrugh who were commissioned by the last Stuarts and the first Georgians to remodel the entire castle in a m...
