Last Friday was St Georges day. The now Patron Saint of England. My Reflection this week is that he wasn’t always such. That honour once held by Edmund. King of East Anglia in the 9th century AD. A devout Christian (believed born on Christmas Day 841), he fought alongside Alfred the Great against the ‘Great […]
Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint Edmund!’ — Reflections
Category: poetry
The Pilgrims Reach the New World – Now What? — SaylingAway (Reblog)
As I mentioned in my last post, land was first sighted from the Mayflower on November 20, 1620, after a voyage of 66 days. Captain Jones determined it was Cape Cod and turned south to reach the land for which the Separatists had a patent – land which was located north of the Hudson River […]
The Pilgrims Reach the New World – Now What? — SaylingAway
Renaissance Science – XXIII — The Renaissance Mathematicus (Reblog)
Without doubt, one of the most eccentric and certainly one of the most controversial figures of the entire Early Modern period was the iconoclastic Swiss physician Theophrastus von Hohenheim (c. 1493–1541), more popularly known as Paracelsus. Trying to write about Paracelsus is complicated by the fact that he is the source of numerous myths and […]
Renaissance Science – XXIII — The Renaissance Mathematicus
Haiku: Waking Up
Haiku: King of the World
Nature of the realm
I dispute – your sovereignty
indisputable
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