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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 8h

This or he wants you to try ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=npRr... Risotto with scallops and pig ears. Suggesting a white Alsace wine.

Recette de Risotto aux Saint-Jacques et oreilles de cochon - 750g

YouTube video by 750g

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 8h

Had John the First survived, there would have been no hundred years war. There is always a real history nugget in my madness. Now going to your wild wild west podcast via x.com/HistoryRage/...

History Rage Podcast on X: "🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 Buffalo Bill didn’t just perform in America—he exported cowboy myths across the world. 🌍 @JemDuducu reveals how Wild West shows helped cement fantasy as history. 🎧 Catch it now: https://t.co/RGlyXrEt5C #BuffaloBill #MythMaking #HistoryPodcast #JemDuducu https://t.co/nySm062sYs" / X

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 Buffalo Bill didn’t just perform in America—he exported cowboy myths across the world. 🌍 @JemDuducu reveals how Wild West shows helped cement fantasy as history. 🎧 Catch it now: https://t.co/RGlyXrEt5C #BuffaloBill #MythMaking #HistoryPodcast #JemDuducu https://t.co/nySm062sYs

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, mercifully there was a regency but who was it, the pregnant widow or the long-toothed brother. A keeper of the belly was named. yes, "keeper of the belly". Widowed Queen followed step by step by a loyal soldier. Then baby John/Jean was born. To die at day 5 of his coronation. Poisoning? ./.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 9h

Involved a male regent. Not a mother or a sister. Which brings me to the only known regency minus a king. In 1310-11, the king Louis X dies. A daughter (sparing you the Navarran claim) born to an ex-wife. 100ys war prequel here and a new wife with a pregnancy. Ah-Ah. Britain never had that. So...🧵⬇️

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 9h

It may be the very first king Clovis started as a regency as he was barely 16 at his first battle. One thing is sure: when his grandson Chilperic dies, the new king was about 4m. Very first regent, the charming Fredegund. Merovingian dynasty is full of queen regents. That Dumas regency BTW the last

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 9h

3 musketeers>20 years later>viscount of braguelonnes from good to so-so to oh well, Monte Cristo gives me a forgiving mood. And this is before we mention the revolution saga, the series set during France religion wars or the French Regency. As you have guessed France has had a few child kings 🧵⬇️

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 9h

Matching other reviews. I remember the first Tron. It was awesome. Less so the second but still pretty decent. Now #3, not sure I shall look for it. Once again, it is the curse of sequels. If Dumas could not make it work (and boy, the boy was a brilliant storyteller), I fear Tron 3 cannot / ./.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 9h

Garden. Dug a hole. Left in to mellow like Good Wine for a year. Ever considered growing grapes?

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

13 October 1904 | A Jewish woman, Ajdla Jabłonkiewicz, was born in Sulejów. In 1925 she emigrated to Belgium.

Deported to #Auschwitz from Mechelen with her daughter Sarah on 8 September 1942. They were probably murdered in a gas chamber on 10 September 1942 after selection.

Vintage sepia-toned portrait of a woman looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression.

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 1d

Alan Garner's Bronze Age shovel - found in the Alderley Edge copper mines in 1875, rediscovered by Alan in a dusty cupboard under his Primary School's stage, and since radiocarbon dated to 1750BC. One of many treasures in Manchester Museum - now massively revamped & European Museum of the Year.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

And people tell me the libs have no knack for messaging.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 2d

Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 3d

The Evil wrought on the UK by press barons like #RupertMurdoch @thesun.co.uk @thetimes.com @dailymail.co.uk @dailyexpressnews.bsky.social is infinite. Brings a whole different dimension to high treason.
@thetelegraphnews.bsky.social @dailymailpolitics.bsky.social

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Herr Carroll Elmer-Henry-David Reimer-Schmidt @vaygar-el1954.bsky.social · 5d

Now, to enforce this...

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 4d

The Merovingian bed which touched me was the child's found in Cologne Cathedral. This little boy who died so young. I imagine his parents laid him in his bed. Poor parents. Elite as they may have been, loss hurts just the same poor and royal.

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 4d

Starting October 19th: Social Hierarchies in Early Byzantium: Power, Status, and Society (330–700 CE) medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/byza... #historycourses #history #medievalstudies

Social Hierarchies in Early Byzantium: Power, Status, and So

Uncover the social world of Early Byzantium—where emperors ruled, clergy guided, soldiers fought, and commoners toiled. Explore how religion, law, and the economy shaped identity and mobility,…

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Otis Porritt @thegriffinpassant.bsky.social · 6d

When POTUS is not a thin skinned insecure grifter baby...
www.facebook.com/reel/1480812...