Welcome to Art Fair Calendar.com

 

 

 

 

 

Spirit says COVID-19, bad weather, reduced staff all contributed to mass flight cancellations

 

 

 

 

www.winnDixie.com/careers

 

 

 

Simple Skillet Meals That Will Save the Day

 

 

 

 

To prevent further spread of the Delta variant, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask guidance to recommend that fully vaccinated people wear masks indoors when in areas with “substantial” and “high” transmission of COVID-19. With that updated guidance, some stores are making changes to their own mask policies. Here’s a look at some of the retailers now requiring masks in their stores:     CENTRAL FLORIDA       Dunkin’ All Dunkin’ locations nationwide will require all guests to wear a face covering while inside its restaurants beginning Aug. 5. Dunkin’ employees are already required to wear face coverings in its locations.       Home Depot Beginning Aug. 2, Home Depot requires associates, contractors and vendors to wear a mask while indoors at all U.S. stores, regardless of vaccination status. The retailer also asks customers to wear masks while in its stores and will continue to offer masks to those who don’t have one.       Kohl’s Effective Aug. 3, Kohl’s will require store associates in counties with substantial or high risk of transmission, as identified by the CDC, to wear masks while in store. The retailer also recommends customers in substantial and high-risk counties wear masks while shopping.       Kroger Kroger requires employees and customers in all locations to wear a mask when shopping in its stores.         McDonald’s McDonald’s told USA Today it will require its customers and staff to wear face coverings again inside its U.S. restaurants in areas with high or substantial COVID-19 transmission, regardless of vaccination status.       Sam’s Club/Walmart All Walmart and Sam’s Club associates working in an area of substantial or high transmission are required to wear a mask or face covering while working indoors, regardless of vaccination status.       Target Target requires face coverings for its team members and strongly recommends face coverings for all customers in areas with substantial or high risk of transmission.     Channel 2—Orlando FL.

 

 

Long-lost fragment of Stonehenge reveals rock grains dating to nearly 2 billion years ago

 

 

 

 

 

The British politican Philip Noel Baker is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize (for peace in 1950) and an Olympic medal.  At the 1920 games in Antwerp, he took home a silver in the 1500 metres.

 

 

 

 

 

THINGS TO DO IN ORLANDO, AUG. 4-10: WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW, A HIP-HOP/GRATEFUL DEAD MASHUP, AND AN OUTDOOR FEST FEATURING TRINA, ADINA HOWARD AND LYFE JENNINGS

 

 

 

 

 

10,000 the number of pearl sequins that adorned Princess Diana’s wedding dress.  The garment is now on display— for the first time in deccades at Kensington Palace.

This We Learned This Month

BBC History Revealed.

 

 

 

 

Kensington Palace

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wollaton Hall and Gardens

 

 

 

When is a Manor—–House  or other Historical Site—More for Your visit?

 

 

 

This opulent Nottingham Country house with its glittering turrents and windows, it sets on a hill, ornate exterior holding inside all manner of historical  items and serving as Nottingham’s National History Museum since 1925.  And so imprssive and opulent that the wife of King William IV who visited here while it was still a private home;  Queen Adelaide would say of the house that it should have a glass case to protect it from the elements.

 

 

 

But despite all this fame—it’s also famous all over the world for anothr reason  and that is that it played Wayne Manor in 2012 Batman film The Dark Knight RIses with the grounds being insidently the home to 9 species of bat and the nearest village named Gotham.  So thus you have a house beautiful and regal that impresseed queens and became a museum—but leading a secret crime fighting life—–so never assume what you see is all you get!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

43 Famous Houses From Movies and TV Shows You Can Actually 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well Dressing in Derbyshire

 

 

 

 

If you’re passing through the villages of the Peak DIstrict ovr the summer months, you might notice an ancient custom alive and well.  Well dressing–which was also once known as well flowering—is a unique tradition in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Yorkshire involving the intricate decoration of wells, springs and other water sourcces with flower petals, the practice is said to have developed from a pagan custom of giving thanks for fresh water, but it took a special significance when Derbyshire, most notably Tissington atributed their deliverance from plague to their fresh water supply.

The Insider:  Brenda Cook

 

 

 

 

 

 

British Culture, British Customs and British Traditions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

www.Heifer.org/busybees

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George Harrison

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Highlands – Prehistoric Sites

 

 

 

 

Caamos Stones: On Lewis’ west coast, the Callanish Stones are a group of 5,000 year-old monument in close proximity.  The main stone circle–Callanish I is known as the “Stonehenge of Scotland” and is made of Lewisian geneiss–the largeest, central Monolith is 16 feet high  and weighs around 5.5 tons.

 

 

 

 

We touched them! 👋🏼 Callanish Standing Stones | Isle Of Lewis, Scotland | Rabbies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History and Historic Preservation

 

 

 

 

Still looking around all manner of town’s streets and the buildings and houses on those streets  to reinforce on my claim that this is  one of the the best way to learn  your Local History.

 

 

 

Today it’s Sanford, Florida

 

 

 

603 S. Myrtle Ave (see pic at top of article)

Queen Anne house–1894

Residence of R. J. Holly,

Founder Sanford Herald

Later:

Munson Family

Home and music studio

Generations of Sanford’s youth studied piano–fearing Miss Fannie Reba’s ruller on their knuckles.

House used in the Filming of the movie:

“My Girl”

 

 

 

 

My Girl (1991) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sanford: a Brief History

 

608 South Elm Ave

Frame Vernacular Bungalo with tin roof

Est built 1910 for

John King

Pool  Hall owner on North Park Ave

Renovated 1994 keeping original floor plan and some fixtures

 

 

 

 

MY GIRL – Filming Location – Sanford Florida

 

 

 

 

 

Merriweather House

618 S. Oak Ave

Queen Anne style with original metal roof, doors and trim & fire places (4).  Also a fully functioning original goldfish pond in backyard.

 

1873 built by L.L. Elkins

Given to Annie Merriweather as a wedding gift.

 

 

 

 

HENRY SANFORD’S FORTUNE WANES AS FLORIDA GROWS AND PROSPERS

 

 

 

 

 

612 South Oak Ave

pic below

Frame vernacular house

1908

1920’s:  Home to J.M. & Zula Moye–he was an engineer for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.

 

 

 

 

Sanford Museum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the younger generation of the Romantic Poets.

 

 

 

Lynmouth, North Devon–set on the rocky north coast of Devon was “discovered” in 1812 by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelly, who stayed here with Harriet Westbrooke, his first wife. They spent 9 weeks here and spread word of its beauty to other poets such as Wadsworth, Coleridge and Southey, who described Lynmouth as the ….finest spot I ever saw.”

Glorious Britain Place of Legends

 

 

 

 

Lynmouth – Devon – England – 4K Virtual Walk – August 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tarpon Springs, Florida | Downtown – Walking Tour

 

 

 

 

 

Tarpon Springs:  This town’s past is linked firmly with Greece—and so, for that matter, is its present.  About one-third of the residents are Greek.  Their ancestors arrived  around 1900, and began earning a living by diving in bulky suits for the

four varities of sponges found in the Gulf of Mexico.  Today, fishermen still auction their sponges to wholesalers on the docks off Dodecans Blvd, Greektown’s main street.  The sundried songes wind up in almost every shop in town, from the tacky T-shirt stores to the more sophisticated boutiques, specializing in teakwood tables or hand blown blue glassware from Athens.

American Scene

Travel & Leisure

Feb. 1997

 

 

 

 

 

Tarpon Springs

 

 

 

 

 

PAGANISM TO CHRISTIANITY & CONSTANTINE THE GREAT

 

 

 

 

I thought we might find some towns that have or had Holy wells—-this picture is of Bathford…..

 

 

 

 

Bathford’s  Holy Well was St. Anthony’s and originally on the SE bank of Boxbrook , was known to cure inflammations and

Rheums in the eyes.  It seems to have sank into the past and is not mentioned in the town in this modern age.    The town is near Bath.

 

 

 

 

 

St John the Baptist, Batheaston Somerset

 

 

 

Another town near Bath that had a well that has been lost is Batheaston and it even had a book about the warm spring that was here. Batheaston is the name of the parrish as well.  There are accounts that say there was a house close by  the well and accounts also say that it was used for cures in those days.

 

 

 

 

Bishops Lydeard

 

 

 

 

Bishop’s Lydiard

I think the well here:  The Devil’s Whispering Well—which by the way was near to the church ,  was said to be a place to whisper curses==so it is probably good to have been forgotten.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Burton

 

 

A perfect day in Bruton

 

 

 

Burton’s well was the Lady Well and was less than a mile north of the town.  The well alas is no more—seems like it was destroyed by a tenant that rerouted the water to an overflow.  There are some remains at the spring head but it’s said to be ruins—-all you might see is a hedge with water running through it from that 1914 pipe? (or a later replacement.)

 

 

 

Bruton: The property hotspot dubbed the ‘new Notting Hill’ in the heart of Somerset

 

 

 

 

Combe-Hill Well is in the town itself on the left as you take the road out of Bruton to Evercreech 

but the wall well is now behind a closed entrance and barred gate (its reported that the stairs you see thru this gate goes down to the water.) There is a question as to whether this well was holy or just a water supply provided to the village by the monks who resided in the Abbey,  that once was here—and probably meet its fate at the insistence of Henry VIII—but that’s another story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Holy Wells and Magical Waters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

www.wish.org/wishesarewaiting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Five Best Places To Get Key Lime Pie In Key West – Forbes

 

 

 

 

 

A virtual live small group tour of Italy with our CEO Stefano.

This is not live—it is a recording of a live tour

 

 

 

 

In Italy in the eleventh century there was no  such problem for Matilda, Countess of Tuscany–her fame grew throughout the Middle Ages untii, in the 17th c., her remains were removeed to Rome and reinterreed in St. Peter’s with a splendid Marble effigy by Bernini, holding the papal crown and the Keys of St. Peter.  In such high regard was she held by suceeding popes that it is surprisng she was nevr canonised.  Certainly many of the Catholic histories written about her at the end of the 19th c are virtual hagiographis.  In Italy, she is simply called LaGrand Contessa.  The secret of her fame lay in her tencious defence of the Italian papacy against the German emperor, one of the chief struggles dominating southern Europe in the Middle Ages.

Woman Warlords

Tim Navark

 

 

 

Canossa and the Lands of Matilda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why were Alexander’s Body and Tomb So Important? (PART I)

 

 

 

After Alexander the Great died of malaria in Babylon in 323 B.C. not yet 33, his body, preserved in honey, was returned to Macedonia for burial.  But where does the leader lie?  No one knows.  The greatst conqueror in history reposes in a grave as obscure as that of his most menial subject.  The sarophagus of Alexander–house (at the time of my visit) in the the National Museum at Beirut in Lebanon–was so named, not beecause it held the conqueror but for a scene on the box depicting an episode of one his battles.

The Cemetery Book

Tom Weil

 

 

Greek Escapes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7 Travel Movies to Watch Your Way Around the World