Dream job alert: Cornwall’s castle island is hiring a live-in guardian
Some doctors utilized dead bodies to help “cure” the living. Epilepsy patients were given medicine made using skulls taken from burial grounds, while ground-up mummies were sometimes administered to those with asthma and Tuberculosis.
Curious Home Remedies
BBC History Revealed
April 2021
Best-Ever Barbecue Dinners
Books—vinyl records-cds-dvds–vintage and eclectic items
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‘Beautiful’ Female Biker Was Actually 50-Year-Old Dad Using FaceApp
Rarely Seen Portrait of Renaissance Queen Catherine de’ Medici to Go on View
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Nazi —the rise and thank heavens fall:
Hitler’s Architect: Albert Speers
Hitler’s Last Year
Nazi Underworld: Hitler’s Family
Hitler’s Money
Hitler’s Riches: Secret Billionaire
Could We BE Any More Excited? FriendsFest Is Back This Summer
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LONDON’S PIAZZA: A HISTORY OF COVENT GARDEN – FROM MARKET TO TOURIST MECCA
Covent Garden, originally a fruitand vegetable market in the 1670’s. Stuff can be found at #27a. Circle the courtyard and take in St.Paul’s Church, a creation of architect Inigo Jones. ALso on the courtyard is the London Transport Museum. At the opposite corner is the beautifully restored Royal Opera House. Turn into Russell Street to reach the entrance to the theater Museum which presents a quick history of West End stages. Take a right on Wellington Street and walk into Penhaligon’s Performers (#41) one of the two makers of traditional English scents.
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62 Awesome Things To Do In Covent Garden
St Fagans named best museum in the UK (2019)
Judges described St Fagans as a ‘magical’ place made by the people of Wales for people everywhere
Cardiff is the capital of Wales. It’s a great town—I’ve stayed their twice—-once on a tour—the year I stayed in London two weeks by myself—I did a 4 day 3 night to Wales –there was only 3 ladies (counting me) and a guide and we took our time and saw so much. The second time was when I drove in England and my copilot wasn’t great at direction and I got a lot of street time in big city traffic before we found the drop off for the car—next stop from there was Wexford, Ireland. I enjoyed both visits and hope to go back again soon.
On the tour we visited
A museum that “celebrates the Welsh way of life and sets on extensive grounds wst of Cardiff. This museum includes building brought from all over Wales from cottage to farm houses complete with pigsties. There are also worshops including a saddler, cooper, black smith and wood turner. There are chapels , even a woolrn mill. Besides toll booths and town buildings and the like is an Elizabethan mansion (I never got to see this, it was undergoing some major maintence when we visited it. ) within the walls of a Norman Castle.
Castell Coch 
near Cardiff, Cardiff, south Wales
This town east of Caradiff was built over the AD75 ruins of a major Roman military base, which was then called Isca. The headquarters of the 2nd Augustian Legion of heavy infrany for over 200 years. Today there are remains still in existance of the Fortress, Baths—which once had 60′ high vaults and the Amphitheatre—which seated 5,000. e
it is also has a Barricks Museum
Said to be the onlhy one on view anywere and displays objects found at the site.
Caerleon Roman Legion Fort In Wales | Time Team
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4 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Gainesville, Florida
By 1860 Alachua County had over 8,000 inhabitants, while Gainevillr, its main city, had some 232 resident. During the Civil War, Gainesville served as a major Confederate Commissary and was the site of two battles. Reconstruction brought martial law, Republicanrule, the immigration of freedslaves, and an economic prosperity. Two main schools were established, the Union Academy for African Americans, and the East Florida Seminary for whites. By the end of Reconstruction, Alachua County had a population of over 18,000, while Gainesville with 1400 residents was a mercantile center for cotton and vegetable crops.
Gainesville Area Historical Summary
Florida Travel: Explore Gainesville in 60 Seconds
The Horn Fair
Can you find Pagan in London
In a city this old it seems likely that if you look close enough you just might.
For instance the Horn Fair. This fair is held in Charlton Village every year This fair is said to have been connected with Herne the Hunter—among other theories (including a tryst with a millers wife and KingJohn– and was some say, London’s first Fair. it was discontinued in 1872 because of it debachery—but then it was the Victorian period so who knows– but was re-instated in 1970 and I’ve seen pictures of a faire as late 2009 so who knows so much for horny pagans.
15 Best Things to Do in Greenwich (London Boroughs, England):
I read one theory that the Isle of Dogs was named after Hermie’s 50 dogs (which had red ears apparently and were called the Hounds of Hell. ) Not a lot of support for that theory I guess.
East London History Isle of Dogs
A bit more modern: the Anglo Saxon—the Saxons specifically had a god named Tiw who was the God of Law—and whom Tuesday is named–But we’remore interested in the fact that the river Tyburn is named—now if you’re saying I don’t remember that river—well it could be because it for the most part ,while still running —-but it’s basically runs underground—in fact it was so polluted at one time it was covered overed a few hundred years. Infact covering over actually cause a greater problem as it filled up in one area with noxious gas which exploded taken save building down. But it still runs mostly underground from it’s source north of London until it joins the Thames (it flows out of a sewer pipe. But there is an area of London that is named Tyburn—and today’s Oxford was originally Tyburn and Tyburn Tree was a place (there over time were several in London) of public executions. So maybe the old god hung (sorry) out there and considered all those criminals and highway men were sacrifices to him?
How To Catch A Glimpse Of The Lost River Tyburn
OK that wasn’t much help was it–but if you try the site below—I think that will help you more
Ancient London calling
Plaque near the Marble Arch Hyde Park
Talladega Superspeedway
Dave Allison of a well known NASCAR racing family was a sucessful driver inthe Winston Cup races. In 1993 Davey, a newly licensed helicopter pilot, drove his bird into the tarmac at Talledaga Speedway and died of his injuries the followinday, he was 32. Both Davey and his younger brother Clifford was killed in a single car crash at Michigan International Race wayat age 27, are buried at Highland Memorial Gardens in Brighton, Alabama where they lived.
How did they Die?
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FOUND A GRAVE
Fire destroys historic Sanford school house
Finding Your Past in Sanford, Fl.
The picture above is of a historical school that use to set at
519 Palmetto Ave In Sanford Florida
Originally built between 1906 and 1907
It set in the Sanford Residential Historic Distric until it burned in 2017.
It was Sanford Primary School #1 .
in 2007 it housed the Tajiri School whichfeatured the Sanford “Out of the Dust Ancestral Path to Dignity” Tour
It was put up for sale 2013—and was vacant when it burned.
The property is up for sale again last information I was able to locate.
Historic Hopper Academy
1101 South Pine Ave.
Built 1900 -1910
T-shaped Frame vernacular 2-story
Was Sanford High School—one of the few remaining early Black High Schools in Florida.
It is now home to Art for Kids and Seminole Printmakers
The building is currently in the process of being restored.
Funded in part by a State of Florida Historic Preservation Grant, the City of Sanford, and generous private donors, a complete restoration is nearly complete. Help us open the entire building by donating today. Donations may be mailed 1101 Pine Av, Sanford, FL 32771 or you can donate online by clicking this link
The Story Behind Sanford’s Goldsboro Community
John H. Hurston House (private)
621 East 6th Street
Reverand John Hurston was the father of noted author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. He and his wife Mattie lived here in this Second Empire Style House.
St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church
819 Cypress Ave
Organized in 1867, on land at the corner of East 9th St. and South Cypress Ave. This is Sanford’s oldest black church. Th building is English Gothic Revival style with four stained glass windows. Designed by black architect Prince W. Spear it was constructed in 1913.
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Five off-the-beaten-path sites to explore Native American history in Florida
Belleview: The Belleview area was once a faborite Seminole meeting place called Nine Mile Pond. During a lull in the Seminole War the Indians invited officers from Ft. King to attend a feast at the campgrounds. It was a friendly affair where a huge fire illuminated the bronze dancers far into the night. The Indians ardently desired to make peace if only the Americans would leave them alone. But hostalities soon resumed.
SEMINOLE CULTURE AND HISTORY
On First Street in Sanford, Fl.
The Mysterious Fate of the Romanov Family’s Prized Easter Egg Collection
The Eastereggswhich members of the royal family and the noble and wealthy gave to each other differed greatly fromthe traditional painted eggs of the people. They weremadeof gold silver and decorated with emamel, precious stones and minature paintings. Particularly splendid were the Easter Eggs commissioned by the Czarfrom Feberge, the leading firm of Russian jewelers at the turn of the 20th century. They wererenowned throughout the world.
Treasurers of the Czar From The State Museum of Moscow
Irish Sky Garden: Skibbereen, Ireland
All 3 of my pictures today are from my wanderings about Florida—probably St. Augustine—but there are other possibilities
Fascinating Places You Can Explore on Google Earth
For those keeping score at home. Amelia Island history goes something like this. French, Spanish, English, Spanish, Patriots, Green Cross of Florida, Mexican, Rebels, United States, Confederate States, United States.
Florida Curiosities
David Grimes & Tom Beanel
Collecting Radioactive Glassware