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Oh by the way all the pictures featured today are of a Key West Sunset and the boats enjoying it.
The Loch Ness Monster is the world-famous creature said to inhabit Loch Ness in northern Scotland. The search for the monster has probably consumed more money, time, and newspaper space than attempts to prove the existence or otherwise of UFOs.
PETER D. JEANS, Seafaring Lore
First I thought I’d go back to Yesterday and one point about Richard III that I didn’t mention is
Who Killed the Princes—Richard or the other king would be–Henry TUDOR later Henry VII. He eventually took over that tower—and there was no confirmation of the princes one way or the other under either king and it is noted for a fact that Henry had the son of Clarence: Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (25 February 1475 – 28 November 1499); the last legitimate Plantagenet heir of the direct male line; executed …on grounds of attempting to escape from the Tower of London.
A quick run down on the family:
Edward IV was the oldest son and he took the throne from Henry VI, who took it back and then Edward took it back till death did part him from the position.
Then the second son–“Edmund, Earl of Rutland (17 May 1443 – 30 December 1460) was the fifth child and second surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville. He was born in Rouen.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund,_Earl_of_Rutland and killed in battle he participated in with his father the Duke of York,
and Clarence–the 3rd who though a member of the House of York, he switched sides to support the Lancastrians, before reverting to the Yorkists. He was later convicted of treason against his brother, Edward IV, and was executed (allegedly by being drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Plantagenet,_1st_Duke_of_Clarence
Richard was the youngest of the sons
The 1995 Richard III was on the telly today–it features Richard’s story in the 1930’s and his kingship is haunted by Nazi symbols—after doing all that yesterday it was a fantastic reminder of that which I wrote
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114279/
All types of high-tech underwater contraptions have gone in after the Loch Ness Monster, but no one can find her … Some people in Inverness aren’t keen on collaring the monster, and you can’t blame them: An old prophecy predicts a violent end for Inverness if the monster is ever captured.
DANFORTH PRINCE, Frommer’s Great Britain
Today I saw an article that just seem to fall in with all this truth stuff we’ve been talking about….
LOCH NESS of course
The survey by Norwegian company Kongsberg Maritime has been the most detailed to date of the Loch’s icy depths. A high-tech marine drone scouring the depths of Scotland’s Loch Ness for one of nature’s most elusive beasts has found a “monster” — but not the one it was looking for. Rather than the fabled Loch Ness Monster itself, the probe discovered a 9-metre replica, used in the 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, which sank nearly 50 years ago after its buoyant humps were removed. But according to the multiple on-line article covering the search says that the crew is continuing with their planned on going search.
When I read this I thought OMG—is there a better example for the proof of our search to fact or fiction–truth or false?
Whatever is the truth, there is no denying that Nessie will continue to intrigue the world for years to come.
JONATHAN BRIGHT, “Unseen infrared image of Loch Ness Monster Nessie to be revealed at Paranormal Festival”, Scotland Now, Oct. 21, 2014
According to one account our current interest in this Scottish lake is due to a slow weekend in 1930 at the Northern Chronicle that a story about a mysterious disturbance of the waters was published and the rest is history. But in truth the monster has been around for a lot longer than the 1930s. In fact the first sighting was St. Columbia in the 6th century–I mean if you can’t believe a saint who can you believe?
Loch Ness is in fact Scotland’s largest loch at least in volume of water and the second deepest with a central trench of 800 feet in places and because of this depth has never been known to freeze. Added to all the water is it’s murkiness, caused by peat particles washed in by rivers that feed into the loch. It has more recently (early 19th c) been connected by to Lochs Oich and Lochy by a 22 mle Caledonian canal (with 29 locks) and ( 38 miles of lochs,) designed by Scottish engineer Thomas Telford.
Since the account in the 1930s there have been hundreds of accounts and an unbelievable number of investigations both technical and fun…the loch is lovely but on my visit all we saw was scenery.
The Loch Ness Monster is a mixture of gas-filled vegetable mats, turbulence caused by gas escaping from faults in the bed of the loch, commonplace objects including boats and birds seen at a distance … waves … otters … and doubtless other things besides. MAURICE BURTON, The Elusive Monster
Despite the pictures–usually blurred and film footage there has never been enough proof to admit that the monster is truth or fiction and there are organizations that maintain regular activity and monitoring. There’s even a Loch Ness Exhibition (www.lochness.com)at nearby Drummnadrochit.
Amazon has 176 books available on the monster including:
Legend of Loch Ness Monster for Kids: A Mystery in the United Kingdom by Amber Richards
The Loch by Neil McGowan
The Loch Ness Legacy: Tyler Locke 4 (An International Thriller)
Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster: Traveling through Scotland with Boswell and Johnson
Loch Ness: From Out of the Depths: Original Newspaper Accounts of the Rise of the Loch Ness Monster – 1933-1934
To name a few.
Even Outlander Includes Nessie (by subject if not by name) in her books: “In my books, there’s a scene in which the heroine (a WWII nurse who passes through a time-portal in a stone circle in the Highlands, and ends up in 1743) sees the Loch Ness monster when she goes down to get water from the loch. In a later book, when she’s talking to her daughter’s boyfriend, she tells him she thinks the creature she saw was a plesiosaur, and speculates that maybe it got there the same way she did–but through a portal under the water.” http://www.dianagabaldon.com/resources/faq/faq-about-the-characters/
The Scottish government has long been interested in protecting Nessie. This just reinforces this whole notion (that) the officials in Scotland take this creature very seriously.
LOREN COLEMAN, attributed, “Loch Ness monster is real: former Scottish police chief”, The Christian Science Monitor, Apr. 27, 2010
OTHER SOURCES:
AROUND SCOTLAND/Ken & Julie Slavin
BAEDEKER’S GREAT BRITAIN
BERLITZ BLUE PRINT BRITAIN
EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE: GREAT BRITAIN
INSIGHT GUIDES GREAT BRITAIN
WHERE TO GO IN BRITAIN/AA