Good day sunshine–tonight is to be cold.  Today is shopping and mailing and all things routine and non-exciting.

 

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Here’s to:

Sam (who is very exciting)

Sam Heughan has teamed up with Fight Camp Glasgow’s John Valbonesi and Bear Strength Clothing to create My Peak Challenge

I still miss Jamie—April will be here soon I know it.

 

“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower’s stem.”   ― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

 

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I thought today we’d look at some crazy facts about famous people that you might not know.

According to CURING HICCUPS WITH SMALL FIRES (Karl Shaw)  DAVID LIVINGSTON (OF Dr. Livingston I presume fame) took 73 books (180 lbs) with him on his trek across Africa.   His poor porters carried the for over 300 miles before he started discarding them until he only had a Bible left.   He by the way spent years in the country looking for the source of the Nile and trying to convert the natives to Christianity.  It is noted that he failed to find the first and only had one conversion (who reportedly later lapsed).    It seems his greatest fame is that he was “lost”  and eventually “found” by journalist Morton Stanley–which goes to prove that you can’t ever get away from the Paparazzi.  

There was another explorer at the time who outdid Livngston–ALEXANDER DEBAIZE (French Explorer) also in the late 18th century trekked across Africa with his porter carrying 24 umbrellas, two suits of armour and a portable organ.   I’m not even going to ask.

BELA LUGOSI the actor who according to THE VAMPIRE BOOK (J. Gordon Melton) is most identified with the image of Dracula was banned from his Hungarian homeland by politics and he emigrated to the US in the 1920s.  When he died in 1956 he was in mid production of Plan 8 from Outer Space and another actor was brought in–doing scenes with a vampire cape pulled over his face to fill in for Bela for the rest of (What is often referred to the worst of all time) the film.   He was buried in his Dracula Cape costume, but not as believed at his request—but according to Wikipedia—at his Son’s request.     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_Lugosi

 

 

America was founded by MADOC THE SON OWEN GWYNEDD, (a Welsh prince) in the 12th century.  Madoc: an Essay on the Discovery of America by Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd in the Twelfth Century   This is all tied up with a resulting tribe of pale-Welsh Indians and is probably all mythical but I thought it was a fun additions…

 

Juan Ponce de Leon main goal in the 16th century discovery of Florida was to discover new lands for Spain.  But according to STRANGE FLORIDA (Charlie Carlson) his search for the waters that restored youth was inspired by Caribbean Indian legends.  It is believed that the Fountain of Youth name however was a Spanish invention.   There is no proof he found this treasure but in 1989  a secret society (or at last a man claiming he was from the society–so secret it could not be named) announced it had found the fountain in 1845 apparently in the St Augustine area.  But if they do know they have remained quiet as well as very secret. The fact that Florida has more fresh water springs than any other state probably has added to the confusion.

 

DANTE  ALIGHIERI died in 1321 leaving an incomplete manuscript of his DIVINE COMEDY.  But according to RIDER’S DIGEST STRANGE STORIES, AMAZING FACTS,  after much searching without finding the papers his son Jacopo dreamed of his  father and asked him about the manuscript.  The dream father indicated the poem was completed and showed him where it was.  With a lawyer as a witness he went to the location and found the papers with the completed poem.    If that hadn’t happened it would have save me bunches of time in school peering at that old tome.

 

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“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love