When you get ready to play your Luxury vacation getaway, you will want to know where you can stay and what is available in the way of amenities, by visiting HomeAway you will get all the information you will need. This site offers you luxury Hawaiian and European vacation rentals that are luxurious and close to the beach.… read more “Luxury Hawaii and Europe Vacation Rentals”
Criticism has been heaped upon both bankers and baseball players in the last couple of years.‚ Bankers destroyed their companies, hurt shareholders and helped send the American economy into a recession.‚ Baseball players used steroids, HG and other drugs harmful to their bodies and set a bad example for everyone else.‚ I agree that what these people did is wrong, but I do not think that they should be blamed.‚ … read more “MLB & Banks: Broken Systems”
The English government declared that coffee shops were hot beds of political dissent, rumor-mongering and libels against the King’s merchants and banned them.‚ Evenetually the coffee merchants raised a petition and the government decided to allow coffee shops again on the condition that they “should prevent all scandalous papers, books, and libels from being read in tehm; and hinder every person from declaring, uttering or divulging all manner of false and scandalous reports against government, or the ministers thereof”.‚ … read more “1675- English Cafe’s Banned”
In New England in 1662, a man convicted of bestiality was forced to watch his lovers (1 cow, 2 heifers, 3 sheep, 2 sows) be put to death in front of him before he was executed.‚ Ah, the true romance.
The French king in 1683, after his explorer Rene La Salle claimed everything from the Great Lakes to the mouth of the Mississippi for France, idiotically proclaimed, “I am convinced the discovery of Sieur de la Salle is very uselsess, and that such enterprises ought to be prevented in the future.”
Ah, the joy of the Divine Right to Rule.
Peter the Great’s former wife Eudoxia (supposedly stuck in a nunnery) took a lover- Stepan Glebov- Peter the Great had the man impaled.‚ Due to the coldness of the Russian winter in 1692, Peter the Great ordered that Stepan Glebov be dressed in a fur coat, so that he would slowly die of his horrific impaling rather than of the cold.‚ … read more “The Kindness of Peter the Great”
In 1694, a Swedish explorer by the name of Count Philip von Konigsmark disappeared.‚ Konigsmark had been the lover of Sophia Dorothea who just happened to be the wife of the future King of England.‚ King George I divorced his wife and locked her in the castle of Ahlden for the remaining 32 years of her life where she was not allowed to see visitors, even her own children.‚ … read more “Don’t Cheat on King George I”
In a truly heartwarming story of rags to riches, a servant to Julius III was made a cardinal for doing great services to the peoples of Earth: he had once cared for the new Pope’s pet monkey.
Once again, this is why you do not want governmental power placed in the hands of unelected, unaccountable officials.‚ … read more “Servant Becomes Cardinal”
Living up to his name, Ivan the Terrible was not a really fun guy to know.‚ In 1555, after the completion of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, he ordered that the architects be blinded so they could never design a prettier building.‚ That act was probably one of the nicest things that he ever did.‚ An enemy of Ivan the Terrible according to one chronicler was “was drawn upon a long sharp-made stake, which entered the lower part of his body and came out of his neck; upon which he languished a horrible pain for 15 hours alive, and spoke to his mother, brought to behold that woeful sight.… read more “Ivan the Terrible: Not A Nice Guy”
Don Carlos died in 1568.‚ Who was this fellow?‚ He was heir to the Spanish throne and apparently was severely mentally challenged due to massive inbreeding in the Habsburg dynasty.‚ He had only 4 great- grandparents (most people have 8), only 6 great-great-grandparents (most people have 16).‚ Two of his great-grandmothers were sisters.‚ Sounds like some folks I know down in the American South…