Tag: History
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Heroes for a New Tomorrow

OK, I may be being a little over-dramatic here, but, as tomorrow, Saturday, February 22nd, 2014, is the date scheduled for another apocalypse, namely the Norse Ragnarök no less, I’ve taken matters into my own hands, and traversed the many avenues of past and present to find five people who would serve as heroes, to…
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It’s that time again!

I’ve just been reminded / refreshed / introduced to something that is as old as time itself. Jo Bryant, Blogstress at Chronicles of Illusions has told me today, in a comment on a recent post about me remembering a Viking celebration, that this coming weekend marks a significant milestone in the history of the world.…
Tom
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Edmund de Chaucery

You’d think having links to the European Royal Families of the early Sixteenth Century would work wonders for your self-esteem, wouldn’t you? And you’d think with such connections, you’d work hard at keeping them going. Leading up to 1515, a rather significant tailor, Edmund de Chaucery, had the European Royals eating out of his hand.…
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The King and the Candlelight

I’m still feeling historical, but a creative urge has now joined the mix, so I decided to have a go at painting a right royal portrait. So, I painted and I tweaked. I tweaked and I painted. I coloured and recoloured. And tweaked. And painted. And tweaked again. And lightened and darkened. I had a…
Tom
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Hints from the past

My ‘pull’ to 1642 doesn’t seem to be as strong as it once was, for some reason. The memories I had of the ships haven’t come back to me for quite some time now, and the references I continued to ‘stumble’ across have also stopped cropping up. I can’t say that I’ve found out anything…
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