Musings by J. Ellsworth Weaver
These are my take on what happened on a particular date in history. While most of it is medieval, sometimes I just get carried away. Speaking of being carried away, if you decide to copy one or more of these missives, please credit me. Maybe you could use some astrological help, I offer that service. It would be a nice exchange: you buy a chart and interpretation and I keep writing these amusing things.
All of these columns are © 2000 by J. Ellsworth Weaver III
June
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15 Big Card Magna Carta
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20 The Flight Mohammed
21 Secret Things Philip the Fair & Galileo Galilei
22 Kiss Me, Kill Me, Kate! Catherine de Medici
23 Eddie and the Cruisers Edward II of England
24 Unto the Pure All is Pure The Cathari
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26 O Ricky, You're So Fine (part I) Richard III
27 O Ricky, You're So Fine (part II) Richard III
28 Lancing a Lot Spear of Destiny
29 Wrasslin' with Saracens Raymond Lully
30 Sticks and Stones will Break My Whatevers Noche Triste for Cortez & Henry II of France
July
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2 Three Kings Jack Cade's Rebellion & Battle of Marston Moor & Nostradamus
3 Mary Meetings St. Bernardine
4 A Short Stroll to Tiberias Battle of the Horns of Hattin
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6 Hankerings and Utopia Henry VIII and Thomas More
7 How does Your Bloody Garden Grow? Bloody Mary Tudor
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9 Janey - Short and Sweet Queen Jane Grey
10 Silent Like an Orange William of Orange
11 I Got Spurs that Jingle-Jangle-Jingle Battle of the Spurs
12 Wonderin' Where the Lions Are William the Lion of Scotland
13 Open Channel Dee Dr. John Dee
14 Just a Hypothetical Question Bastille Day
15 St. Swithin's Day
16 I'm Innocent I Tell You! Pope Innocent III
17 You Can't Go Back to Constantinople Fourth Crusaders take Constantinople
18 By Hooke or By Crook Robert Hooke, Inventor / Scientist
19 An Arrow Shirt with that Kilt? Edward III's Victory at Berwick
20 So Lovely in Angora Battle of Angora
21 Shrewsbury but not Hotspur Battle of Shrewsbury Destroys the Percies
22 French Hairdresser Wanted Mary Magdelan's Day
23 The Prize of Peace Casimer the Great Secures Peace for Poland
24 Two Upstanding Saints Simeon the Stylite & St. Lupis
25 Big Jim and the Creed James the Great & Council of Nicaea
26 Drink to Me only with Thine Eyes Emperor Nicephorus I & Krum the Bulgar
27 Sleep, Baby, Sleep The Seven Sleeping Saints & MacBeth
28 Gunpowder, Golf, and Gals Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots)
29 Urbanizing a Viking Saint Olaf & Pope Urban II
30 Freddie Goes to Antioch Frederick Barbarosa
31 Mamluks in Kneeboots Mamluks & St. Ignatius Loyola
August
1 Pleasantly Plump King, Scientist, and Teen Bride Louis VI, Versallius & Juliet
2 Rufus and Dufus William II & Henry III of France
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4 Father of Democracy Simon de Montfort
5 Mad King and Two Moms Charles VI of France & Peace of Cambrai
6 Maggie and Enola Margaret Tudor
7 Whither Goest Thou, Fair Maid Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent
8 Three Nerds and a Toilet Seat Gilles Roberval, Tycho Brahe & Girolamo Fracastoro
9 Kung-fu Dryden John Dryden
10 Bruce and Ferdie Battle of Athenry & Magellan
11 The King's Field and Stout Douglas Robert the Bruce & Sir James 'Stout' Douglas
12 Patron Saint of TV St. Clare of Assisi
13 A Saintly Queen and Her Poet St. Radegund, the Deaconess
14A Printer's Devil and a Bastard King Faust & Battle of Aljubarratto
15Charlie and the Magic Horn Song of Roland
16 Rock Breaks Windows St. Roche & Wencelslas IV
17 Hail Caesar! Cesare Borgia
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19 Auggie and the TurksOcatavian Augustus Caesar & The Battle of Manzikert
20 The Gall of these Franks Richard I & The Slaughter at Acre
21 Bathory, Bathory Mucho! Countess Elizabeth Bathory
22 Not Speaking to Parliament The Stuart Kings & Parliament
23 The Enigma of the World Duke of Buckingham & James I
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25 Ivan's Birthday Bash Ivan the Terrible
26 Fronde-Louis Persuasion The Fronde Uprisings
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28 Auggie Brewster St. Augustine of Hippo
29 Know Mohacs! The Hungarian Battle of Mohacs
30 Asp Not What Your Country Can Do For You Cleopatra
31 Riding Across the Bay Caligula
September
1 Zealously Remembering Zion The Destruction of Jerusalem
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3 Oliver! Oliver Cromwell
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5 The Magnificent & the Gal with the Antelope Eyes Suleyman I "The Magnificent"
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7 Liz's Birth Chart Elizabeth Tudor's Astrological Chart
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9 William the ...? William the Conqueror of England
10 Devo & the Pony Gal Marie-Therese (Queen of France) & Lady Godiva
11 Are We Paying Attention? Pop Quiz from Poppa Smurf
12 Cinq-ing Mars Henri Marquis Cinq-Mars
13 Games without Frontiers The Battle of Marignano
14 I Have a Key! The Quiz Answers
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17 That's Poitiers, Sidney! The Battle of Poitiers
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19 Regent! John Plantagent, Duke of Bedford
20 Great Going, Alex! Alexander the Great
21 Light'em if You Got'em Savonarola
22 Never Again! The Salem Witch Trials
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24 The Lady and the Gambler Our Lady of Ransom & Girolamo Cardano (mathematician and astrologer)
25 Derwent My Everything The Battle of Stamford Bridge
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27 Ezze Bad? Ezzelino da Romana
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30 Ruminations Rumi
October
1 A Plague on Both Your Houses The Black Death in Florence
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3 Isabel, Dafydd & Ash Isabel de Valois & Dafydd the last resident Prince of Wales
4 Patron St. of the Environment Francis of Assisi
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7 Turkish Delight The Battle of Lepanto
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9 The Burning Times Witch Trials in Germany
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11 Hairshirts & Heresies Conrad of Marburg & St. Elizabeth of Hungary
12 Gain & Loss Queen Jane Seymour
13 Friday the Thirteenth Arrest & Trial of the Knights Templar
14 River of BloodBattle of Hastings
© 2000 by J. Ellsworth
Weaver
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