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……
6 U.S. Cities With Bizarre Nicknames
https://www.traveltrivia.com/us-cities-bizarre-nicknames/XqgZkXU1XQAGkiMa
The VIRTUAL Rock’n’Roll London Walk With LIVE Music + Prize Pub Quiz!
FREE
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
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
- 1963 May 08
Interactive Tour of Ellis Island
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/index.htm
Photo added by rjschatz
Hamilton Disston
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11702785/hamilton-disston
BIRTH | |
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DEATH | 30 Apr 1896 (aged 51) |
BURIAL |
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA |
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
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/
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
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
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?
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/
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 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
Alfred Hitchcock
Ophra’s
The Sound of Music Reunion
St. Augustine National Cemetery
https://www.visitstaugustine.com/venue/st-augustine-national-cemetery
another of my wanderings pictures
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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
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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
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