Silent Night is probably one of the world’s most famous and beloved Christmas carol. There is an awe and majesty in the tune that really fits with the lyrics, and if a really good singer is performing the carol solo, it can send shivers down your back. If you’ve ever witnessed the first snowfall of […]
Thirty-five years ago today, John Lennon was shot dead by an unbalanced man named Mark David Chapman, who shot him four times in the back outside his New York apartment, then sat and waited for the police to arrive, and read The Catcher in the Rye, which he said was his statement. The photo, right,
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Within a couple of weeks of arriving in Canada, once the almost permanent headache that came from concentrating so hard on the funny accents had gone away, I came to a startling conclusion. Now that I was in North America, I was free to read and write the wildly different types of romances that you
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There were two major influences that drove me as I wrote Heart of Vengeance, one of them positive, the other horribly negative…but I’ll get to that one in a minute. The positive one was an old 1952 movie that I must have watched three or four times growing up. There was only one TV station
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Salisbury Cathedral was consecrated 757 years ago today, in 1258. That’s a long time ago, especially in people terms. In 1258, King Henry III was on the throne, England, along with Europe, was heading into the last failed Crusade to Jerursalem, when Acre would be lost once more. There were still knights and kings and
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The Great Fire of London, with Ludgate and Old St. Paul’s by Anonymous. The Great Fire of London began this day in 1666, in a bakery in Pudding Lane, near the Tower of London. It burned for three more days, destroying over 13,000 houses. Interestingly, only three lives were lost to the fire, which burnt
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And a happy July 4th to everyone below the 48th and north of Mexico! I know the actual day is today, but the US had yesterday off, too. Hope it was a good day for everyone, and that the rest of your weekend is just as good. ______________________
On this day in 1937, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor and the former King of England, married Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American. They lived in France for the next forty years, until the Duke died of cancer in 1977. As King of England, Edward was the head of the Church of England, so when he
Today marks the 560th anniversary of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses, which began at the First Battle of St. Albans, when Richard, the Duke of York, defeated and captured Henry VI, who was King of England at the time. I’ve always thought the name of this civil war was such a pretty
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