Check out the town on the border of the Yorkshire moors and it’s connection with Stoker and Dracula
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Clydesdale Hotel
12 CLYDESDALE STREET, HAMILTON. Scotland
Avoid Liquids close to bedtime: What goes in must come out, and it does so in about 90 minutes. So plan accordingly.
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was the son of Pelops, Peloponese an early king after whom the in southern Greece is named, and Hippodaemia. The house of Atreus was infamous for the hereditary curse laid upon it by the son of Hermes, the messenger of the gods. A terrible cycle of murder and revenge was ended only by the trial in Athens of Atreus’ grandson Orestes on a charge of matricide.
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The King was in his counting house,
Counting out his money
the king in this rhyme is believed to be Henry VIII
The Queen was in the parlour,
Eating bread and honey.
The Queen is reported to be Catherineof Aragon, Henry’s first wife and mother of Queen Mary his oldest legal child
The maid was in the gardens,
Hanging out he clothes.
When along came a blackbird,
And snipped off her nose!
And that is Anne Boleyn who was his second queen—he divorced Kathern–and mother of Elizabeth his second child—and it wasn’t her nose that got snipped off but her head as she had no sons—-he found daughters useless-
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Royal Lipizzan Stallions of Austria
32755 Singletary Rd.
Myakka City, Fl 34251
This is a rare opportunity to see the magnificent Royal Lipizzans up close. The stallons were saved from almost certain extinction at the end of World War II. Colonel Herrman and his father smuggled their horses out of Europe under the protection of General George S. Patton. Decades later, these “original” Lipizzans are here for all to behold!
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The actual Sunset Celebration in Key West began in the 1960’s with the hippies and other carefree souls would gather to watch at the end of the day—it is now a major event with performers, artists and food vendors to name a view come to Mallory Square to celebrate the close of another day.
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Thelma (“Butterfly”) McQueen, best remembered for the role of Prissy in Gone With The Wind, was born in 1911 in Tampa, Fl.
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is a lovely town north west of Orlando with lovely shops, excellent restaurants some with lake views, lush parks—even a mini-working-lighthouse/one of the few on freshwater in Florida.
But the town originally settled in the late 1800’s has some history that wasn’t always positive—but I think the incident of Robert Warburton and his family is among the strangest and quite sad. Seems that Robert Warburton his wife, who had homestead 160 acres in the Mount Dora area in 1875, took a wagon trip to Eustis and on their way back on May 21, 1882 stopped at a place called Fiddler’s Pond to water their horse (which was of course attached to the wagon) . Apparently the area going down to the lake was quite steep and it is reported that the horse and wagon both went in taking the family with it. All were drowned.
But I did find one child survived though I have not found any details
Edith Maria Warburton Binns
| BIRTH |
Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
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| DEATH | 1956 (aged 78–79)
Methuen, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
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| BURIAL |
North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA . |
Married on 17 Dec 1913 at Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts to Harry Binns
But then I find that she was born in Mass. 2 years after the family had homesteaded the land in Florida which is equally confusing and both her and all the family’s listings show her as one of 3 children the couple had. One wonders how she escaped the drowning, though I do assume that she was returned to Mass. to live with family there after the loss of her immediate family—but that is sheer speculation.
So I leave you with a sad and not entirely clear picture of an early incident in the history of Mt. Dora—my favorite town in Central Florida
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In original Celtic Society there was no focal point—no single authority—no single group or people dominated the others.
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The house was built in 1908 on the corner of Bayshore and Gandy Blvds. by Gilas Leland Bigelow. He had come from Brooklyn in 1884 and later served on Tampa’s first city council. He died in 1917. His widow sold the gray-stone mansion to Dr. John Sullivan Helms, who converted it to the first private hospital on Florida’s west coast. Since then the edifice has also been an artist’s home and studio, and later an office complex. Sometime in the past decades, visitors started reporting seeing Gilas Biglow’s apparition in the house. After its hospital days, the cries of phantom babies were heard from empty sections of its ten thousand square feet. Other visitors reported a feeling of being watched, not knowing if it was by Mr. Biglow or ethereal babies needing their ghostly diapers changed.
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Increasing your serotonin levels creates a feeling of calm and makes you sleepy: Foods that can help with this (try some a few hours before your bed time) are: Bananas, dates, crackers, figs, milk, turkey, whole grain breads, yogurt.
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Soccer, as it is quaintly known in the US, is by and large referred to as football in the rest of the world.
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North from Khartoum on a narrow dessert road near Meroe, are dozens of pyramids that , if you’re like me, you know little about. And even the City—once the capital of Kush.
The pyramids are in the royal cemetery, on the east side of the highway that divides Meroe–and the west holds the ruins of the royal city
This land is south of Egypt and its names have included Ta-Seti, Ta-Nehesi, Ethiopia and Nubia.
Since all of this is located in the country of Sudan,, not a prime tourist place even if there wasn’t a pandemic I thought you might like a
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Any settlement that has been founded and run by spiritualists would be expected to have a significant proportion of its population that can neither be seen nor heard. Fortunately, the voting requirements are too stringent to include residents of the noncorporeal persuasuon.
The hotel there is haunted as one would expect. Arthur was an Irish tenor who particularly liked the area and stayed in room 22. It is also where he died. The room has sometimes been reported to smell of cigars, gin, or pine needled. Gin smells somewhat like pine needles, and Arthur liked cigars. Even body odor has been noted in the room—Arthur lived before air conditioning, and Cassadaga’s heat and humidity can be intense. A chair in the hotel has been seen to rock by itself.
Arthur has been seen in hallways. People have attempted to contact him, and it is claimed that he will turn lights on and off in response to question. He is also playful–one guest complained of being repeatedly pushed out of bed.
Strange music, like vintage music being played too fast from a distance has been heard by guests in room 22, though no one else was staying on the floor and televisions and radios are not allowed in the rooms. A modified scream was also heard. Is Arthur playing pranks and entertaining guests who expect a spooky show.
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Lycanthropy is the supernatural condition whereby a human transforms into a wolf. If an afflicted person transforms into another type of animal, the correct term for their condition is therianthropy.
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the word “ghost” in English tends to refer to the soul or spirit of a deceased person that can appear to the living.
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The celebration of Halloween was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there. Halloween was much more common in Maryland and the southern colonies.
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