A Man -who writes romantic fiction--Nicholas Sparks--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks

I read one novel of his around 2000--don't remember it. I gave my copy to a Burmese woman.

She said, "I can tell what's going to happen."

But it's not a mystery novel.

Just now I watched The Choice on Amazon--confusing ending.

But nice gentle book.

Long preview of Yulin Kuang--How to end a love story.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/How_to_End_a_Love_Story/5MC9EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1

We are not related.

She is KUA--

I am Kau--

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This is one of only 2 elections he predicted wrong--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Lichtman

The Alexander Mosaic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Mosaic

Air Fryer recall USA--

https://unionrayo.com/us/airfryer-recalled-dangerous-fire/

2024 rom coms--too many to read--

https://jeevesreads.com/2024/07/13/every-5-star-romance-novel-ive-read-in-2024-so-far/

International romance novels

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Conquered: A WWII Erotic Historical Romance Set in Guam: By Paula Ann Lujan Quinene

An Irish Country Love Story: By Patrick Taylor

The Unwanted Wife: By Natasha Anders

Best Laid Plans: By Vaishnavi Ram Mohan

The Bodyguard: By Ruchi Singh

Bad Girl Gone Wicked: By Shilpa Suraj

Some Like it Hotter: By Andrea Simonne

Making It Right: By Helen Wilder

One Night on the Island: By Josie Silver

Going the Distance: By Julianna Keyes

Queen of Hearts: By Whitney Dineen

Love, Scandal, and Second Chances: By Shilpa Suraj

It is Important, never to forget, who you really are.

Be true to yourself.

Dinocaur eggs--from Internet

Chaske Spencer--Native Amercan actor--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaske_Spencer

Very nice contemporary "Western"--wild west--Native Americans--good acting--beautiful scenery

Free with ads on Amazon Prime--

Emily Blunt--Chaske Spencer notable as a Native American US cavalry officer.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11771270/

Special--interview of Ben Power who adapted 3 Shakeaspeare plays including Richard III

to BBC's The Hollow Crown. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=BBC+The+Hollow+Crown+youtube#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:bec589a1,vid:Vj4NTrlJZs8,st:0

The movie Shakespeare in Love was by Tom Stoppard.

BBC The Hollow Crown--Richard III

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07bqgjn

Shakespeare's Richard III

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Richard_III/7v0nAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1

House of Tudor--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Tudor

Jasper Tudor--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Tudor

Edmund Tudor--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Tudor,_1st_Earl_of_Richmond

17th century French doublet--male--with pinking--intentional slits

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/81558

15th century--English and French fashions

https://world4.eu/english-and-french-burgundy-fashion/

Medieval harp--such as Owen Tudor might have played--reconstruction--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Medieval+hapr#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:5675f1c8,vid:Ki6Mzh6aeGI,st:0

Shakespeare's Henry V

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V_(play)

Owen Tudor--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Tudor

AI generated images--Owen Tudor--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=movies+about+Owen+Tudor#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:d5621154,vid:xcOVUtOnUl4,st:0

No image exists of Owen Tudor--2nd husband of Catherine de Valois.

Only actual sketch of Catherine deValois

Contemporaneous--marriage of Henry V and Catherine de Valois

Siit Nyein Aye--based on famous/infamous 1988 photo of Win Maw Oo--dying. Rest in Protest.

Dr Aye Hlaing photos--

I realize now--I have either--

read the book,

seen the movie

of all the great stories.

what a wonderful life.

Royal Shakespeare Co. Othello--complete play--in modern dress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX0cbcrMAdo&list=PLTe3BtWX_ebdJc0Xj3ayfsLba0EOoeSot&index=3

Alexander the Great--Battle of Gaugamela--map

https://www.worldhistory.org/image/151/map-of-the-battle-of-gaugamela---alexanders-attack/

Cash-strapped junta leans on migrant laborers

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/cash-strapped-myanmar-junta-doubles-down-on-foreign-remittances.html

Kenneth Branagh--wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Branagh

Beautiful--magnificent movie--Shakespeare's Henry V--Kenneth Branagh--directed by Kenneth Branagh.

You can watch it free with Amazon Prime.

I have no connection with Amazon.

Shakespeare is Shakespeare--That's why the English Department at Penn had his picture on the wall.

Catherine de Valois

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Valois

The Battle of Agincourt--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt

Shakespeare's play Henry V

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V_(play)

Jean sans Peur was a real person--see Joanna Hickson The Agincourt Bride

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Fearless

Serious health hazards of breast implants--don't get it--no man is worth it, no woman either.

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Can silicone breast implants cause health problems?

At last-- a woman without silicone breasts.

https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/zoe-salda-co-signs-season-182400784.html

online foodie magazine TASTE

https://tastecooking.com/recipes/

Bones from a Tudor warship (Henry VIII)

https://www.aol.com/bones-tudor-warship-reveal-life-151153251.html

Archaeologist defends his conclusion it was Alexander the Great's tunic (fragment) he found.

look at the original article in Journal of Archaeology--it was a layered fabric, not "stripes."

https://www.newsweek.com/alexander-great-scientist-defends-stance-it-belonged-him-1978488

Though how he could have "worn it every day"--on campaign is a bit much.

Alexander led a very streneous life, most of it in hot to very hot climates, such as the Mediterrnean regions, Egypt, India, and through the Gedrosian desert on foot, to Babylon (Baghdad) where he died, some say of West Nile Virus.

LIDAR aerial survey reveals hundreds of medieval structures along Silk Road.

https://www.newsweek.com/archaeologists-reveal-hundreds-medieval-structures-famous-silk-road-1973783

From Nov 1--KIA seizes last Border Guard Force HQ--despite Chinese pressure.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/kia-seizes-final-border-force-hq-despite-chinese-pressure.html

Important new idea--David Scott Mathieson--Network Insurgency--"arrogance of NUG"

https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/commentary/myanmars-new-network-insurgency.html

"manels"=panels composed only of men.

Special--Tyrian purple dye-

Morning glory on sidewalk--Kaung

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=royal+color+purple+murex#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e7d544d4,vid:IVXqisH6VeM,st:0

Hephaestion (and Bogaos) are 2 of my favorites --as portrayed by Mary Renault--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestion

They were the closest to Aleaxander and the most sensitive--as narrators--in Mary Renault's novels.

Hephaestion is portrayed by 2 different actors in the Indian TV series--Porus.

Alexander suffered a full-scale mental breakdown after Hephaestion died suddenly--of typhoid fever, Renault suggests.

Alexander lay over the corpse for days and had to be dragged away.

Mary Renault's novels--she was gay herself--and thus able to write "the homosexual side"

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Alexander+the+great+novels+by+Mary+Renault

The Persian Boy is exceptional.

Alexander "inherited" Bogaos, who was Darius' "Persian Boy."

He figures prominantly Funeral Games--at the death of Alexander in Babylon.

No one can beat Mary Renault--here--Funeral Games--in end all died--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_Games_(novel)

Eric Flint--time travel novel with Arridhaeus--

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Alexander_Inheritance/kosmDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT5&printsec=frontcover

Not that interesting.

Arridhaeus--Alexander the Great's brain-damaged brother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_III_of_Macedon

Royal Tombs--Philip of Macedon--in Vergina, Greece--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_the_Royal_Tombs_of_Aigai_(Vergina)

You should read all of Mary Renault's Alexander the Great novels and one nonfiction book too.

Special post--Irrawaddy interview of Kim Aris, son of DawAung San Suu Kyi and the late Dr. Michael Aris--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/video/kim-aris-time-for-world-to-sit-up-and-take-notice-of-myanmars-crisis.html

Mr Aris speaks very like his brilliant mother--able to get to the crux of any problem, and with a great deal of courage.

Please join him in making his clean water project successful.

At least click your mouse and share this video.

My problem is, my stories get dark quickly--I can't write a sunny, happy family--nor a sunny golden land either.

Devny Perry--contemporary romance series--like a factory--

https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/devney-perry/

So far only read one--a chef and a single mother--Juniper Hill--BTW--color-coded--evocative covers--unusual.

plot rich--the voices of the 2 lead characters sound similar--

and strange verbs--

Like "I stole a grape"

or "I spied a--"

"I smashed my lips--"

which sounded overblown--

Otherwise good plotting and characters appealing

The sex scenes not as explicit as some other authors'--but then a baby and then a toddler is always screaming--

Nice Montana setting.

Also a prescription only--cholesterol controlling drug--

https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a603015.html

Junuvia--for Type 2 diabetes--website--This is a prescription drug--

https://www.januvia.com/special-offers/

Opera Pushkin--written by a Pushkin descendant--

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/21/pushkin-opera-debut-grange-park-marita-phillips-russian

Burmese food tour--looks gooey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79_npvX2fqQ

Ice dancing--2024

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=youtube+ice+dancing#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4860dd05,vid:eVHnn1c5yCU,st:0

myanmar--as junta bombings on civilians escalate--new sanctions--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/intensifying-strikes-on-civilians-spark-new-sanctions-against-myanmar-junta.html

David Garrett--Matteo Bocelli--Ave Maria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVdAfpYHx3I

Bruce Willis and FTD--

https://www.today.com/health/disease/bruce-willis-frontotemporal-dementia-diagnosis-rcna71085

The man who died, Stanley Biddle, was a homeless member of the Biddle family of Baliey, Banks and Biddle--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey_Banks_%26_Biddle

I often saw him sleeping on campus, in the doorways of university buildings.

With Kathy Change, he was a common sight on campus.

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10-3-2024

Flash fiction--man who froze to death

In October 1984 on a very cold night, Stanley Biddle, a homeless man who was a familiar figure on the University of Pennsylvania campus, froze to death after falling asleep near 38th Street.

History - University City Hospitality Coalition, Inc. uchcphiladelphia.org

https://www.uchcphiladelphia.org › history

It was my first snowstorm experienced in America, though I'd seen a lot of snow in Poland.

There were 4 feet drifts of snow on Chestnut Street.

My friend Scallion Shoot called me to say they had to dig themselves out of the snowdrift, using the garage door first to get out, because they could not use the regular doors.

Kaung --10-30-2024