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Showing posts with label Renaissance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Renaissance. Show all posts
Friday, January 11, 2019

Damn, Girl-Mary of Austria, Queen of Hungary, Governor of the Netherlands

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Sometimes called 'Mary of Hungary', it's easy to lose this Mary among the sea of other famous Mary's hailing from Austria a...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

The Sad Case of Joanna the Not-So-Mad

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The last ruler of the house of  Trastamara , Joanna, known natively as Juana, of Castile was the daughter of two brilliant, but ruthless mo...
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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

The Time Da Vinci and Machiavelli Teamed Up to Steal the River Arno

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Coming up with a way to steal an entire geological feature is the sort of whimsical nonsense that you would expect from inventor/engineer/a...
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Friday, May 12, 2017

A Brief Overview of the Wives of Henry VIII-In Summation

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I'm not very good at conclusions, I never have been. I can't tell you how many rough drafts of papers I turned in that ended with: ...
Friday, April 28, 2017

A Brief Overview of the Wives of Henry VIII-Catherine Parr-Survived

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It is very likely that Henry's final queen was named after his first. Catherine Parr's mother, Maud, was a lady in waiting to Cathe...
Friday, April 21, 2017

A Brief Overview of the Wives of Henry VIII-Catherine Howard-The Midlife Crisis Queen

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If we were to introduce the wives of Henry VIII a la Great Comet , we would sing 'Catherine was young', because Catherine 2.0 was v...