Everyone loves Christmas. It’s a time for gifts, singing, merrymaking and feasting. It is a time for family, friends and community. The central focus of the festival is of course the commemoration of the birth…
It is the year 1843. A young Victoria is on the British throne, supported by her consort, Prince Albert. The prince has introduced the German Christmas custom of a decorated fir tree — to…
Brave Hurricanes and Spits still claw and climbFar up into the English summer sky,At the lingering end of a golden timeAs wild young lads and aging empires die. The Hood and Rodney still the Channel guardAgainst the strident Men…
The year is 1943, and German troops have entered Italy. The general and the colonel of this unit seeks an audience with the Pope to extract the Catholic Church’s neutrality in an attempt to keep…
Introduction Within this essay my aim is to address the complex and ever-changing roles of Viking women within Pagan Scandinavian society. To do this I will discuss the multiple roles that women played/fulfilled throughout the…
~By Michael Goth Of the ten highest grossing movies of the eighties, two men were responsible for seven of them-George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Spielberg directed E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982), the film that surpassed…
She was called the Queen of the Ocean,A beautiful ship of dreams.Titanic was her namesakeUnsinkable was what she seemed. Her story is a tragic one,Oh Royal Mail Steamship.The greatest disaster epic toldNow rests in the…
The month of August in the Catholic Church is dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which makes it perfect for the biggest names in the Dominican order to have feast days in this month.…
At 10:00 AM on December 10, 1936, Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom, the British Dominions, and Emperor of India signed the Instrument of Abdication in which he irrevocably renounced all claims to the…
While my main focus of interest is usually Lord Nelson and his Navy, today I'm writing about a ship of a very different era: la Blanche-Nef, aka, the White Ship, which sank during the twelfth…
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