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Rupert tells us all about Outlander
http://www.accesshollywood.com/articles/outlander-qa-grant-orourke-talks-rupert-agreeing-to-help-claire-rescue-jamie-160903/
At the headwaters of the Weeki Wachee River–the first magnitude spring–are the world-famous mermaids. For over 6-decades, the mermaids have entertained with their daily underwater performances. there is also a riverboat cruise, a native animal show and Buccaneer Bay–Florida’s only spring-fed water park.
BOYETT’S CITRUS GROVE (see pic above)
Part orange grove, ice cream parlor, zoo and gift shop. Near Brooksville— fresh squeezed juice.
CROOM MOTORCYCLE & ATV AREA
ATV & dirt bikes can explore the natural wonders at this 2,600 acre site in the Witlacoochee State Forest. Includes entry level trails, young rider area, and miles of challenging terrain that will provide something for all skill levels.
Aphrodite was the goddess of fertility, love, and beauty.
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WE THREE QUEENS:
The Tudors brought us something unique to this day—3 queens who were powerful in their own right all being born, married abused and reigning (not necessary all in that order) in less than a century and all three on the Isle of Britian (though the Scottish one was also queer further abroad) and 2/3 named Mary.
Mary I (1516-1558–reigned for 5 years October 1553 – November 1558 when she died)
She was the first woman (Queen) to ever rule England in her own right.
Henry VIII’s own child–her mother was Katherine of Argon, a Spanish Princess and daughter of the pair that sent Columbus to the European “New World” and Henry’s only royal wife, which means he had to divorce not rail road her to execution.
She went from royal princess to declared bastard when Henry “proved” that his marriage to her mother had been illegal and changed the religion of England from that all inclusive to protestant even though he really preferred the traditional church.
He did all this to assure he had a son–which he did one murdered wife and a remarriage later.
On her brother’s death (He reigned for 6 years having taken the throne, under a regent who actually ruled for him, at age 9) and after disposing the protestant’s effort to put her cousin on the throne she took her rightful place.
She married in 1554 to a Catholic prince of Spain the county that brought us the Inquisition.
She is remembered as Bloody Mary–for her (or at least her allowed) burning and otherwise executing Protestants within her realm. http://www.thetudorswiki.com/m/page/EXECUTIONS+under+all+the+Tudors
She died childless at age 42, probably of a uterine or other cancer of the area as she was bloated as with child (which for many months was thought to be a real pregnancy until 9 months came and went).
The legacy of Mary has most recently taken a turn for the better. Seems both her short lived brother and long lived sister had their fair share of murdered Catholics (the Protestants seem to have the best publicity people as they played their prosecution up while forgetting their own rampages).
This along with her avoiding the execution of her cousin who was a dupe of the lords rebellion and taking the field against Mary’s army. (Jane Grey ruled only a few days,) Later Jane’s own father led an additional rebellion forcing the ax-handed demise of the most poorly used girl ever (well there was Joan of Arc but that’s a whole other story) as well as accounts of Mary’s generosity and kindness seems to be making a different image for the first queen of England.
I also feel sorry for her because her husband was a cad who appears to have felt she had little to offer save a crown, while the woman who was long a virtual and in some cases an actual prisoner, who married late in life and appears to have loved this man, who like the bastard she had for father did not appear capable of offering her any real kindness not to mention love. Phillip in fact tried to convince her sister to marry him when she was gone.
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Forms and content of worship varied. In modern times, the title “Queen of Heaven” is still used by contemporary pagans to refer to the Great Goddess, while Catholics and Orthodox Christians now apply the ancient pagan title to Mary, the mother of Jesus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_heaven_(antiquity)
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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTTS:
Part I: Queen of Scotland
born 6 years after Mary I (1542) legend has it that her father lay wounded after a battle with Henry (yeah that one) when he was told his child, a daughter had been born and that he turned his face to the wall and soon died, some suggesting that it was as much from the disappointment of her sex as from the wounds. Making Mary Queen of Scotland at 6 days of age.
While Mary was growing up her great uncle (a king named Henry–him again –she was the granddaughter of Henry’s eldest sister Margaret Tudor) decided that she should marry her 5 year old cousin Edward.
Her mother Mary of Guise (French women seemed to be a tough breed) who along with the Catholic Party ruled Scotland didn’t agree and Henry proceeded to ravish the country but never got his hands on the Scottish queen.
Part II: Queen of France
By 1548 she had been sent to France where the king (another Henry) declared her to be perfect and she was raised in the royal household—replacing her early life with pampering and petting galore, but she was living in, what Weir calls “a moral cesspool” with her governess actually being one of the king’s mistresses and mother of his bastards. (there are two pictures suppose to be Mary as a young woman where she was painted in the nude though she may have just had her face superimposed upon someone else’s body)
The Royal children were said to be a strange lot with the crown prince Francis being sickly and feeble and described as little and ugly as well as suffering from a severe eczema. Her marriage was short lived. She was married in 1558 shortly after signing over her Scottish throne to the French should she die with out issue. Her marriage lasted a little over 2 years and ended when the sickly king Francis developed an ear infection which ended in a brain abscess which killed the sickly young man.
Francis’ younger brother assumed the throne as Francis (who had growing up with the princess and was Mary’s best friend) and Mary were childless. “Her mother-in-law, Catherine de’ Medici, became regent for the late king’s ten-year-old brother Charles IX” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots
The In-laws
Word is that Catherine did not welcome Mary as one ex-queen was enough—by the way thee of her sons became king. And beside Francis’ poor health: Charles suffered from hallucinations, another son Henry became a cross-dresser and Hercule had an incestuous affair with his nymphomaniac sister Marguerite. Now that’s a family but hey guys that’s only 50% as there were 10 children and considering their grandfathers both died of syphilis well any way–Catherine decided Mary should go back and rule her cold, backwards kingdom and leave the weird but better dressed and housed kingdom to her.
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We’ll pick this up again on Monday
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Anya, this traditional Irish name belonged to the queen of the Munster fairies and is sprinkled throughout Irish folklore as an early Celtic goddess of summer and prosperity.
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