Funfetti Pancakes
Complete List of St. Augustine Museums To Visit On Vacation
Newport, Essex…grew prosperous in the Middle Ages by growing the Saffron Crocus, used for dying cloth. It was several charming streets and a notable group of medieval buildings by the Green: Martin’s Farm which, has a 15th c exposed timber front; the Old three Tuns, and Crown House whose plaster work was lavishly pargetted (decorated) with garlands, in th early 17th c. In the main street is 15th c Monk’s Barn, which has exposed timber and brickwork, it was once the summer retreat of the monks of the now vanished St. Martins-le-Corand in the city of London. In the church is an extremely rare 13th c painted chest, the under side of its lid is decorated with figures that include the VIrgin, St. Peter and St.. Paul.
Cambridge
Michael Hall
Ultimate Travel Planner: For Key West
Once part of Robert E. Lee’s in law’s grounds it was given to him and his wife, Mary Curtis, by her family (they were married in 1831). This included the Greek Revival residence (now called
Curtis Lee House or the Arlington House
Lee was living here but as we all know he joined the Confederate States and the goverment of the USA close by in Washington took possession of the property.
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The property was originally used for military purposes as it was near Washington which was Yankee and the Confederacy. It became the Arlington National Cemetery in 1864 with a clear titile not established until 1883.
Here lies the honored dead of many military men and women lost in the defence in wars and police actions over the years and a few centuries and here also lies within a white Memorial Amphtheater upon the plaza the unknown soldiers from all those wars as well. “Their Idenity Known but to God.”
Here lies the bodies of two American Presidents: Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy. and his brother Bobby a senator both shot down at different times and by different assassins who along with their brother Edward (also a Senator) now rest close by each other for ever.
I visited here several years ago and it is a very impressive to visit here—so much history so much the results of war……
And the House is well worth a visit as well.
Oh and those flags on the graves—according to the rule: All Gaves are decorated (lately by soldiers by the way) during th 24 hour period preceeding Memorial Day with small flags, which all will be removed immediately after Memorial Day. Flags are not permitted on graves at any other time.
Honoring the Fallen: Soldiers Adorn Cemetery With American Flags in Time-Honored Tradition
The closes of the royal mile | Part 1
Escape the hordes by crossing over to Anchor Close which has no nautical associations what-so-ever, taking it name from a famous tavern once situated here, before its large scale demolition and reconstruction in 1868, Anchor Close was home to Downley Douglas,another of Old Edinburgh’s epic bevy of howoffs hosting a plthora of drinking clubs, and socities. the Crochallan Fencibies met here, numbering among them learning and letters like Robert Burns and the Clubs founder William Smelere, one of the humanitaries of Edinburgh’s once mighty publishing industry and father of the Encyclopedia Britannia. Offering serious drinking and serious intelletual debate in equal measure, those learned societies proved fertile ground for the spectaclar flowering of Edinburgh into a “hotbed of genius” achievements of the Scottish Enlightmnt turned Edinburgh into the “Athens of the North”and an intellectual capital of Europe.
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The closes of the royal mile | Part 2
Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Historic State Park
Sugar Mills are scattered about Fl and for a few years were a major industry—–they have ceased to be but they have left all manner of dramatic ruins to mark their passing
Visiting The Cruger-dePeyster Sugar Mill Ruins + Dummit Plantation Ruins!
Habitat for Humanity
Kitzingen Holds Attractions For Dracula Buffs And Wine Lovers
Transylvania is often associated with the land of Dracula and blood-thirsty vampires that sleep during the day and get out by night to suck the blood of their victims. But in the local folklore, vampires didn’t exist before the novel of Bram Stoker. Or at least, they weren’t called vampires, but strigoi, undead souls that rise from their grave during the night and haunt the villages, feasting on the blood of the living. The Strigoi are usually assimilated with people who had a violent death or in the case of a Christian ritual that wasn’t fully respected during the funeral.
The Legends and Myths of Transylvania
Cultural Trip.
INSIDE HEVER CASTLE – VIRTUAL TOURS
This castle is one I was planning on visiting before the Virus came along —
13th and 15th c moated castle
Reputed to have been thee childhood home of Mary (mistress and possibly mother of a son by Henry VIII—never confirmed) and Anne Boelyn ( Mary’s sister and wife and victim of Henry VIII on his quest for a male heir and mother of a female heir and some say one of the most impressive monarchs that England produced Elizabeth I). The Boelyns were the new rich—and cousins of an already established family the Howards (whose teen daughter married the despot Henry but was caught in adultry—-this was after he had a son and it is said that Henry was very besooted with her when another fraction wanted rid of her and revealed her less than wifely behavior).
BED & BREAKFAST at Heaver Castle
Excellent furnished rooms with many por traits. This house was at one time owned by a very rich American named Astor (who became a Brit citizen and a member of Parliament in the House of Lords as did his wife–House of Commons for her– as well—first woman to serve). And Mr Astor had the house restored, and evidentally did a good job. He also included an Italinate Garden in the restoration
It is 25 miles from London.
HOW TO GET FROM: London to Hever Castle
“One World” Episode : Woburn Abbey
The Duke of Bedford’s 18c Mansion
Set in a 3,000 acre park which also includes
The stately house retains the shape of the original monestary that was originally here from which it also obtained its name. I am presuming it also owes its current function as a landed gentry’s home, to Henry VIII and his dissolution of the monasteries—–
The House has had various remodels and restration with different area on different time lines and eras when it was done. There is a substantial art collection including artists Rembrant, Van Dyke and Holbein as well as lovely English and French furniture and lots more.
It is 45 miles from London.
HOW TO GET FROM London to Woburn Abbey
Seven 9/11 Memorials to Visit Across the United States
It has been 20 years since four jet liners hijacked by trroists crashed into the Twin Towers, The Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people
After 9/11
Jennie Rothenberg Gritz
Smithsonian Magazine
From memory to history: How America will remember Sept. 11 on 20th anniversary
Find serenity with the ancients at temples in Yogyakarta
Nani Temple, Prambanan Java, Inonsia: Divine yet very human in their stance, Hindu gods adorn panl at Nandi Tmple, one of 242 shrines surrounding the greeat Shiva Teempl at Prambana. Th Sanjaya dyasty initiatedd their building here in around 850 CE, rrputedly as a Hindu answr to thee massive Buddhist complx at Barbudur 51 Km (32 miles) away.
Abandond Sacred Places
Lawrence Jaffee
Borobudur Walk, Indonesia – Virtual Trip
Movies filmed in North East Florida.
Primary filming locations for the Action Plot twister was at Cecil Airforce base in Jacksonville, Fl.
The 1983 movie based on a book by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and was filmed at the Fla State Historical site between Gainesvill and Ocala, that Rawlings once owned and whre she wrote.
A story about a new doctor who drives across the country to become a plastic surgeon in Hollywood, but a car accident he ends up having to delay his plans and help out the local doctor in a small country town.
Most of the filming was done in a very small town in Florida,
Micanopy and last time I was there it was easy to spot the filming location
Micanopy recalls its brush with movie magic
HOLLYWOOD AT SILVER SPRINGS
In the 1930s, Hollywood discovered Silver Springs and over the years, scenes from at least 20 movies were filmed here, including Rebel Without a Cause starring James Dean, Distant Drums starring Gary Cooper, the James Bond movie Moonraker,Creature from the Black Lagoon, and six Tarzan flicks.
Ocala featured in many famous films, TV shows
Episodes of television shows such as Sea Hunt, were filmed at Silver Springs as well. In fact, legend has it that Sea Hunt star Lloyd Bridges learned to SCUBA dive at Silver Springs!
TARZAN SWINGS BACK INTO ACTION AT SILVER SPRINGS THEME PARK 1995 article
A guide to the best Viking attractions in the UK
Extensive Danish Settlement is indicatd by the large number of Scandanavian place names ending in “by” and “throb” and in the north-east by the many Scandinavian surnams ending in “son”. The centre of Danlaw was Northumbiria, while Norweigans established a base at Dublin in 841 and in the first two deecades of the tenth century colonised the coastlin of north-west England, invading the Wirral from Dublin in 902. Scandinavian place names ar extensive in Cumbria and Coastal Lancashire.
Ancient England
Nigel Blandell
Kate Farringe
Viking Sites and Ruins
1855 Richard Burton Pilgramage to Mecca is low: $10,000 to $15,000
1906 Metcalfe Oil is High: $150,000
Things to Do in Transylvania
Castle Dracula–an infamous residence of Vlad the Impaler (1431 – 1476) constructed near the Transylvanian Border on a commanding hill to the nothof the town of Cartea-de-Arges, Probably built in the 14th c and known by several names, including Castle Agirish and Castle Poenari, it passed through many hands until 1156 when its remaiins came to Vlad Dracula. Deciding to rebuild the fortress he used slavee labor to provide stoes from the remains of another castle across the Arges River. According tolegend, thousands died in the enforced construction. After this the castle was used mainly as a prison, coming under control of the Hungarians in the 16th c befor being abandoned. Subject to numerous lgends and folk tales, Castle Dracula influenced Brom Stoker, who chose to model the home of Count Dracula in the novel, emphasing its in accessibility, loneliness and ambiance of terror.
The Vampire Encyclopedia
Matthew Bunson
Visiting the Dracula Castle in Transylvania, Romania
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Learn about Dry Tortugas and all of the available activities at the National ParK
Albert Bridge which links Chelsea on the north bank with Battlsea in th south, was namd in memory of Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. It is a stunning bridge. Originally designed by Roland Mason Ordish as a triple-span iron suspension on bridge, it is 710′ long and 40′ wide, with a centre spn of 400′. It cost 90,000 pounds and was opened in September 1873. The four original tollbooths still stand at either end of the bridge. For the benefit of soldiers stationed at the nearby barracks in Chelsea, there are notices saying ‘all troops must brak step when marching over the bridge. By night 4,000 bulbs light th bridge making it one of th mostspectacular sights on the river.
London’s Bridges
Ian Pary
Samson Lloyd
GUACAMOLE
the main first and last—-my pictures as usuak—are all from the
New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruins in Florida
Star Collision Triggers Supernova Explosion