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January 12 - February 21, 2022
“Tapadh leat, a gràidh,”
“A Naoimh Micheal Àirdaingeal, dìon sinn anns an àm a’ chatha,”
"Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in time of battle
“John Sevier.
TN 1ST GOVERNOR
Isaac Shelby.
Isaac Shelby (December 11, 1750 – July 18, 1826) was the first and fifth Governor of Kentucky and served in the state legislatures of Virginia and North Carolina. He was also a soldier in Lord Dunmore's War, the American Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. While governor, he led the Kentucky militia in the Battle of the Thames, an action that was rewarded with a Congressional Gold Medal. Counties in nine states, and several cities and military bases, have been named in his honor. His fondness for John Dickinson's "The Liberty Song" is believed to be the reason Kentucky adopted the state motto "United we stand, divided we fall".
William C...
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William Campbell (born 1745 and died on August 22, 1781) was a Virginia farmer, pioneer, and soldier. One of the thirteen signers of the earliest statement of armed resistance to the British Crown in the Thirteen Colonies, the Fincastle Resolutions, Campbell represented Hanover County in the Virginia House of Delegates. A militia leader during the American Revolutionary War, he was known to Loyalists as the "bloody tyrant of Washington County", but to the Patriots he was known for his leadership at the Battle of Kings Mountain and the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
Frederick Ham...
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Frederick Hambright (May 1, 1727 n.s.– March 9, 1817) was a military officer who fought in both the local militia and in the North Carolina Line of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He is best known for his participation in the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. Serving as a statesman early in the Revolution, Hambright joined the War in 1777, ranked a lieutenant colonel in a local militia. His early actions were limited to occasional checks on (and some minor skirmishes with) Loyalist groups. This changed in 1780 with Hambright's important role at the Battle of Kings Mountain, which occurred near his lands in the newly formed Lincoln County, North Carolina. Hambright was commended for his bravery during the battle, though suffering a wound which forced him to permanently resign from military service.
Patrick Ferguson?”
Patrick Ferguson (1744 – 7 October 1780) was a Scottish officer in the British Army, an early advocate of light infantry and the designer of the Ferguson rifle. He is best known for his service in the 1780 military campaign of Charles Cornwallis during the American Revolutionary War in the Carolinas, in which he played a great effort in recruiting American Loyalists to serve in his militia against the Patriots
“Oidhche mhath, a charaid,”
"Good night, friend,"
Francis Marion,
Francis Marion (c. 1732 – February 27, 1795),[1] also known as the Swamp Fox, was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Acting with the Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina and Charleston in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven out of the state in the Battle of Camden. Marion used irregular methods of warfare and is considered one of the fathers of modern guerrilla warfare and maneuver warfare, and is credited in the lineage of U.S. Army Rangers and the 75th Ranger Regiment.
ban-sithe
banshee, Irish Bean Sidhe, Scots Gaelic Ban Sith, (“woman of the fairies”) supernatural being in Irish and other Celtic folklore whose mournful “keening,” or wailing screaming or lamentation, at night was believed to foretell the death of a member of the family of the person who heard the spirit. In Ireland banshees were believed to warn only families of pure Irish descent. The Welsh counterpart, the gwrach y Rhibyn (“witch of Rhibyn”), visited only families of old Welsh stock.
The Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott mentioned belief in a kind of banshee or household spirit in certain Highland families (Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, 1830).
tathasg
Ghost 👻
voulez-vous coucher avec moi
“Gu sealladh sealbh orm!”
“Look at me!
a phlàigh bhalgair
a plague of balga
“Amène-toi, imbécile!”
"Come on, fool!"
“Vite!”
Fast
“Merde,”
Shit
“Mo chridhe bristeadh,”
"My heart is broken,"
“B’fhearr gu robh mi air bathadh mus do thachair an cron tha seo ort.”
"I wish I had drowned before this harm happened to you."
Time Police
The beginnings of St. Mary's?!?!
Thig air ais an seo!”
Come back here! ”
“Buinneachd o ’n teine ort!”
"Good luck from the fire!"
“Seadh, a bhana-mhaighister?”
"Yes, mistress?"
a bhana-mhaighister,”
mistress,
a’ Chraobh Ard,
The High Tree,
“Tha gràdh agam ort, mo chridhe,”
“I love you, my heart
