What do you think, darling? Should I hate him? Doc Holiday/Val Kilmer

Irish Pub Cooking: Publications International Ltd.

 

 Talk about comfort food–75 classic Irish pub dishes including

Shepherd’s Pie, Corned Beef and Cabbage, Potato and Leek Soup and Irish Soda Bread……

https://www.abebooks.com/Irish-Pub-Cooking-Publications-International-Ltd/30580360202/bd?cm_mmc=ggl-_-US_Shopp_Trade-_-used-_-naa&gclid=Cj0KCQjwhtT1BRCiARIsAGlY51LjThIR5K3ZXWq9QcoL0R24OdPrdSOsRQ3T5Hvp41CQFQSHRod4X2waAoZWEALw_wcB

 

 

 

 

6 U.S. Cities With Bizarre Nicknames

https://www.traveltrivia.com/us-cities-bizarre-nicknames/XqgZkXU1XQAGkiMa

 

Fish Tremble When They Hear My Name #funnyfishingmugs #fishingmugs #personalised #fish
7   Birthplaces of Famous Figures You Can Visit in the U.S.

 

The VIRTUAL Rock'n'Roll London Walk With LIVE Music + Prize Pub Quiz! tickets

£8

The VIRTUAL Rock’n’Roll London Walk With LIVE Music + Prize Pub Quiz!

 

MULTIPLE DATES

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-virtual-rocknroll-london-walk-with-live-music-prize-pub-quiz-tickets-102661808232

The VIRTUAL Rock’n’Roll London Walk With LIVE Music + Prize Pub Quiz!

The Crown Hotel
High Street
Alton, Hampshire, UK
In 1967 workmen carrying out renovations at the 15th c. Crown Hotel knocked down a false wall near the original dining room hearth and came across the skeleton of a dog hidden in a recess.  The find appeared to give credence to one of the inn’s more persistent legends which held that at some stage in its long history, a man had beaten his dog to death against the dining room chimney breast in a fit of drunken rage.  Thereafter ghostly scratching could often be heard in the vicinity of the fireplace, sometimes accompanied by the sound of whimpering from behind the wall.  Dogs brought to the inn would often react to soomething they could either see or sense in the area of the chimney breast.  But the findings of the skelton has not rendered the haunting redundant, for visitors still inquire about the cause of the strange scuffling and franting scraping that they swear to have heard near the fireplace.
Haunted Inns of Britain & Ireland
RIchard Jones
there are other ghosts there—see about the June hunt that was plannned but ….. and if you keep scrolling down you’ll see info on other ghosts.
and try a virtual tour of Hampshire

https://www.visit-hampshire.co.uk/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/04/its-visit-virtual-hampshire-now-b92

 

 

 

 

 

The Albany Pub Quiz tickets

FREE

The Albany Pub Quiz
The Albany, London
I Own You Funny Humor 11oz. Coffee Mug Tea Cup Gift
Guess who this newly found parrot billed dinasor was named after

                                              Windy Winery                                                     https://www.windywinery.com/

                      Brenham Texas…                        https://www.visitbrenhamtexas.com/

4232 Clover Rd.

 

Since 2005.

Learn about wine making, old fashion hospitality and handcrafted wine by the glass or bottle.

Tasting room & Gift shop.

 

 

 

University classes in wine—professional certificate in wine—check out the video describing courses, cost etc.

Professional Certificate in the Business of Wine at San Diego State University

https://ces.sdsu.edu/hospitality/professional-certificate-business-wine?

 

 

 

Want to buy a castle?  Here’s your chance

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/scottish-castle-sale-less-price-21984899?

 

 

 

How To Uncover Your Past Lives (How To Series Book 7) by [Ted Andrews]

How To Uncover Your Past Lives 

https://www.amazon.com/Uncover-Your-Past-Lives-Book-ebook/dp/B006J8X860

 

Explore how knowledge of past lives can help you gain clear insight into problems in your present life.  Learn to break destructive patterns of the past.  Find your soul mate.  Further your Karmic growth.

 

 

60 Virtual Tours To Travel The World During The Coronavirus Pandemic

https://www.nomadandinlove.com/virtual-tours-for-travel/

 

 

 

 

 

 

Movie Quote today from Tombstone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilFlN7yzwqk

 

one of my two favorite movies by Val Kilmer

 

A telling of Wyatt and Doc Holiday and how they dealt with an Arizona

town and the Cowboys who owned it…..any resemblence to real history is probably purely accidential

 

Tombstone:  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tombstone-117086409/

 

Doc Holiday—-see the full episode on 3rd Youtube  right after the brothels below

 

Wyatt Earp     https://www.biography.com/law-figure/wyatt-earp

 

 

Cowboys   https://www.legendsofamerica.com/clanton-gang/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a little extra–not that Tombstone would have had any of these.

 

 

 

watch Doc Holiday’s biography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interactive Tour of Ellis Island

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/index.htm

 

 

 

 Hamilton Disston

Photo added by rjschatz

Hamilton Disston

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11702785/hamilton-disston

BIRTH
DEATH 30 Apr 1896 (aged 51)
BURIAL

PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia CountyPennsylvaniaUSA

PLOT Bridge Section, Lot 1-2-3-4
MEMORIAL ID 11702785 ·

Location:  in the parking lot on the north side of 9th St, between Mass. andd New York Aves and then across the street.

St. Cloud, Fl.

https://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/cities/st-cloud.html

In 1884 the land where the city now sets was cypress swamp which were after much discussion were drained in the early 1880s. by Hamilton Disston.  Eventually the Sugar Belt Railroad was constructed from Kissimmee, on land that was just seven feet above sea level.  Disston did a secon dredged from Cross Prairie to East Lake Tohopekaliga and the water went down 8 feet.

Sam L. Lupfer, Sr (Penns) started a sugar plantation eventually bought by Drisston.  It used French and Italian workers from Louisana as well as other laborers

 Captain Rufus F. Rose built and operated Disston’s sugar mill.  Legend says that he ask a goup of guests for a suggestion for the plantation and that Prof Bridges (Principle Kissimmee High School) made the suggestion but after that it is a debate over where he took the name St. Cloud from.

At Age 36 Disston was America’s largest land owner until the Panic of 1893—when he in a series of reversals etc, lost everything and $2,000,000 in mortage bonds sold by th Disston Company in 1894 wer defaulted in 1895.  In 1896 he sat in his bathtub and put a bullet through his head.   The sugar mill prospered for awhile but finally failed in 1901.

 

The general store became Geriatrics Manor, a nursing home this two story frame commissary and some brick foundations and granite slabs are all that remains of the mill and plantation.

 

Cypruss swamp:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7sh8y226bw

 

Sugar Belt Railroad:    https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMRP97_Sugar_Belt_Railway_VFW_Post

 

Kissimmee:  https://www.experiencekissimmee.com/things-to-do

 

Sam Senior’s grandson a look at a  developer’s desendents in central Fl.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/orlandosentinel/obituary.aspx?n=samuel-l-lupfer-sam&pid=15807494

 

Sugar in America:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/sugar-slave-trade-slavery.html

 

 

 Captain Rufus F. Rose

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1995-07-23-9507130324-story.html

 

60 Best Classic Movies to Stream Right Now

https://www.glamour.com/gallery/best-classic-movies

Here are All the New Horror Movies Coming to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video This May

https://the-line-up.com/horror-movies-on-netflix-hulu-amazon-may-2020

 

 

 

Windsor Castle:  The Queens Ballroom:  

The silver furniture, along the window side, is a very rare survival of 17th c royal taste.  The portraits by Van Dyck include Charles I’s children

Windsor Castle:  Official Guide

 

 

 

 

If COVID-19 Is Messing With Your Sleep Routine, Here’s How to Get It Back on Track

https://www.allure.com/story/covid-19-sleep-routine-tips-dreams?

 

 

 

 Welcome to The Ensign Ewart Pub, on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

The highest pub in Edinburgh, and the closest to Edinburgh Castle, The Ensign Ewart has a rich history dating back to 1680, when the pub was first established on it’s current site. It has changed a bit since then, but it still retains much of its original charm, and always has a warm and welcoming atmosphere.

We have 4 Scottish Cask Ales, a dynamic and ever changing whisky list, a large selection of Scottish gins, live music, a fresh and locally sourced food menu, and of course, the best in Scottish hospitality!

 

Another of my photographs on our wanderings of the Royal Mile—we did ocassionally wander into the rest of the city—but the Old Town won my heart and devotion early on and so this is were most of my sojourns occurred.

 

 

Here’s the Pub’s Web site to see what they have going on—or would if this was the real world:  https://www.ensignewartpub.co.uk/

 

 

Some pictures:  https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g186525-d1865939-i156023091-The_Ensign_Ewart-Edinburgh_Scotland.html

 

 

The story behind Edinburgh and the Lothian’s oldest pub names

https://foodanddrink.scotsman.com/drink/the-story-behind-edinburgh-and-the-lothians-oldest-pub-names/

 

 

 

 

Live Virtual Cooking Class with a Professional Chef

Charge $22.20

https://www.getyourguide.com/paris-l16/live-virtual-cooking-class-with-a-professional-chef-t385539/

 

 

Mt. Dora, Florida
by the 1870’s orange groves had been established and many of the top families including the Henrys aand Simpsons had arrived seeking timber to harvest and lands to farm.  And citrus became the crop of choise.  If you visit the Mt. Dora Museum you’ll see packng devices, and a variety of gorower’s labels.
      Museum: 
Virtual tour of down town Mt. Dora

25 Most Amazing Ancient Ruins of the World

 

 

National Portrait Gallery 

London England

St Martin’s Place

Charing Cross Tube Station

It has over 4,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures by renowned artists (Gainsborought, Holbein, Reynolds, Van Dyck, Watts and others) of the eminent men and women who have shaped British history.  Portraits are added only ten years after the death of the subject, except in rare cases, such as royalty.  A controversal painting of Elizabeth II is to be seen here.

London Round the Clock

1981-82

 

Take a virtual tour-—there are multiple choices including

Time periods

Themes

Recent Acquistians

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/explore/tours

 

 

 

 

Millions of animals legally enter the U.S. each year—without being screened for diseases

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/05/to-prevent-next-pandemic-focus-on-legal-wildlife-trade/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=SpecialEdition_20200508&rid=C8AD26EEFCCCB250AB1802F10A013FCC

 

 

NORTHERN IRELAND 
CASTLE WARD

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/castle-ward/features/game-of-thrones-at-castle-ward

 

 

The 12 Most Brilliant Uses People Came up With for Shower Curtains

https://www.hometalk.com/15916155/s-the-12-most-brilliant-uses-people-came-up-with-for-shower-curtains

 

 

 

Tuffy’s Bottle Shop and Lounge

https://www.facebook.com/tuffyscider/

200 Myrtle Ave

Sanford

 

Sanford’s first cidery.

complete with cornhole boards, a bocce ball course and a custom water feature focal point.

extra seating in a pontoon boat and trailer.  Full bar as well.

 

 

 

 

New closest-known black hole lies in a visible star system

https://earthsky.org/space/closest-black-hole-hr-6819-eso-telescopium?

 

 

Looking from Black Friars Lane to Ludgate Broadway, EC4

Continuing north to the top of Blackfriars Lane is the junction with Ludgate Broadway and Carter Lane, where a blue plaque on the wall to the right marks generally the Site of the Priory of the Blackfriars founded in 1278′, but unspecifically the site of its main gatehouse which stood here.  Carer Lane was once the main east to west thoroughfare when the original cathedral Church of St. Paul’s was enclosed in its own wall.  The name of the lane derives from two Carter Brothers shown as taxpayers in Caastle Baynard Ward in 1319.  A few yards along to the right is Carter Court, a narrow passage leading to a tiny enclave of modern offices built in the Georgian style.  The passage itself is lined in a thick layer of lime wash.  However, this is wattle and daub and the wooden planks hammered in with crude iron nails are sole survivors from the 16th c.  Indeed this is reputed to be the only built structure between the Monument and the Temple to have survived the Great Fire of 1666.

 

 

Blackfriars Lane:  https://www.historytoday.com/archive/blackfriars-london

 

Ludgate:  https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol1/pp220-233

 

Carter Lane     https://thestreetnames.com/tag/carter-lane/

 

Black Priory  https://lostcityoflondon.co.uk/tag/blackfriars-priory/

 

The Blackfriars and the Greyfriars Monasteries in London

 

Old St. Paul’s Cathedral:  https://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/old-st-pauls-cathedral-london/

 

Castle Baynard Ward    https://www.walks.com/our-walks/castle-baynard-pub-walk/

 

Carter Court   https://books.google.com/books?id=wdWPjcchyJgC&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=carter+court+history+london&source=bl&ots=TZVxbqri-D&sig=ACfU3U2Cd7CJF9UlgviBP6vog_D5Vq7s9w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjRyKfugKfpAhWJg-AKHZbVB6wQ6AEwB3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=carter%20court%20history%20london&f=false

 

Georgian Style  https://londontopia.net/culture/architecture/top-ten-georgian-buildings-in-london/

 

Waddle and daub      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_and_daub

And the area on Carter Court mentioned   :

 

The wattle and daub wall on the right side of Carter Court alleyway in Blackfriars is one of the very few structures in the City to have survived the Great Fire of London

 

 

The Momument           https://www.themonument.org.uk/

 

 

the Temple     https://www.aladyinlondon.com/2019/04/temple-london.html

 

Great Fire of 1666         https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/great-fire-london-1666

 

 

Turn your leftover pickle jars into these beautiful outdoor luminaries

https://www.hometalk.com/tv/decorate/44290484/outdoor-jar-luminaries

 

 

 

 

Horse Country Virtual Tours

Multiple choices and things to see in Kentucky

 

Virtual Tours

Alfred Hitchcock

ENGLISH-BORN AMERICAN DIRECTOR
  • BC resized for website
Waterton Park Hotel
https://watertonparkhotel.co.uk/
 Walton, Wakefield WF2 6PW,
United Kingdom
Formerly Walton Hall
Now a luxurious hotel this mansion was once the home of Charles Waterton
He is said to have once captured a cayman by jumping on its back and tying his suspender (braces to the Brits reading this) around its mouth.  Legend says he use to sleep with his foot out of the window in hopes of being bitten by a vampire bad.   He would also it is reported that he participated in dinner parties mimicing a specific animal.  He was a friend of Charles Darwing and called by some “madder than a box of frogs”.
check it out:

Ophra’s 

The Sound of Music Reunion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg0ex72yHi4

 

St. Augustine National Cemetery

https://www.visitstaugustine.com/venue/st-augustine-national-cemetery

another of my wanderings pictures

  • The St. Augustine National Cemetery is located on the grounds of St. Francis Barracks, which is an active military installation and the state headquarters of the Florida National Guard.

    The 1.4-acre cemetery has had 2,788 interments since 1828, when the first burials took place. These were soldiers stationed at St. Francis Barracks who were veterans of the Florida Indian Wars.

    In 1842, three coquina pyramids were erected in the cemetery to mark the end of the second Seminole War. These are known as the Dade Monument (after Major Francis L. Dade), and beneath them are buried more than 1,400 soldiers who died during those wars.

  • Dade Massacre:
  • http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Florida/_Texts/FHSQ/5/3/Dade_Massacre*.html

More:  https://myfloridahistory.org/date-in-history/december-28-1835/dade-massacre

  • After the American Civil War, the cemetery was expanded and improved, and in 1881 it became a National Cemetery. In 1970, it was included in the National Historic Landmark historic district that encompasses the oldest part of the city.

Walking tour for the whole family of St. Augustine

https://www.floridashistoriccoast.com/blog/virtual-trips-for-the-family/

 

 

 

Hurricane season is expected to be worse than normal

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/hurricane-season-expected-be-worse-normal-n1203246?cid=eml_nbn_20200509

 

 

 

 Key West police Corporal Pedro Corpion mad a name for himself in the late 1970s and early ’80s as an intelligent and educated officer–with occasional lapses of common sense.  Legend has it that he once ran a red light in his patrol car, stopped to write himself a ticket, and then asked for a court hearing.  The judge supposedly told him he should have let himself off with a warning.

Terry Schmida’s

True Crime:  Stories of Key West and the Florida Keys

 

A Guide to Drinking in Key West (The Duval Crawl)

 

 

Power, Myth and Memory in Africana Art Virtual Tour

 

 

Bailey Jack

https://www.jtfolkart.com/bailey-jack

 

 

 

And don’t forget to check out the retail shop

https://www.jtfolkart.com/retailshop

 

 

 

 

 

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