![]() ![]() "All else is a dispute over trifles." Heretic Queen is the highly personal, untold story of how Queen Elizabeth I secured the future of England as a world power. ![]() "There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith," Elizabeth once proclaimed. ![]() Yet at the outset, in religious matters, she was unfathomably tolerant for her day. Extravagant, witty, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the ultimate tyrant. Given the scars of the Reformation, Elizabeth would need all of the powers of diplomacy and tact she could summon. Only twenty-five years old, the young queen saw herself as their Protestant savior, aiming to provide the nation with new hope, prosperity, and independence from the foreign influence that had plagued her sister Mary's reign. Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald delivers a stunning account of Elizabeth I that focuses on her role in the Wars on Religion- the battle between Protestantism and Catholicisim that tore apart Europe in the 16th Century Elizabeth's 1558 coronation procession was met with an extravagant outpouring of love. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() As Cora runs, a slave tracker, Ridgeway, stalks her on horseback, chains ready for her body. The reader can’t help but draw comparisons to the iterations of modern American racism, covered daily in the “official” news and on Twitter and YouTube. Each stop on the railroad – South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee – represents what Whitehead calls in the Oprah interview, “another American possibility.” Each of these – even those that seem innocuous enough – is violent and insidious in its own way. She relies on the Underground Railroad, in this case an actual subway car and series of tunnels buried deep in the poisoned and bloody earth, to inch her way toward liberty. This is the story of Cora, a slave on the Randall Plantation in Georgia, who steals off toward freedom, as her mother did before her. From Charles Dickens to Jane Hamilton, a lot of my favorites are on her list. So, Oprah’s endorsement ( “It took my breath away,” she told Whitehead), and Pamela Paul’s extended interview with the author on the New York Times Book Review podcast, had me rushing to experience this book. You probably know that Oprah Winfrey picked The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead for her book club in September. For some readers, Oprah’s attention is a deterrent, but not for me. ![]() ![]() Her splendid vocal gifts attracted the attention of important musicians and impresarios, and success upon success soon followed: Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, in San Francisco, followed immediately by Aida, (an opera with which she would always be associated), Don Giovanni, and Il trovatore. That marked the real beginning of an opera career. ![]() She moved, in reasonably short order, to Four Saints in Three Acts, Porgy and Bess, and then, unusually for the times, a TV production of Tosca. From there on, her career begins to follow a fairly recognizable path. Her first stage performance was as Mistress Ford in a 1952 student production of Verdi's Falstaff. Her goals at the beginning were modest, and she first aimed at a teaching career, attending Wilberforce College in Ohio. It was her voice, of course, that first attracted attention. She studied piano and also sang in choirs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like many before her, she showed musical promise as a child. She came of age, and rose to fame, during a period of racial change in America, and she broke barriers that had long existed, becoming the first African American to sing leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera, and among the first to sing such roles at the great opera houses of the world, including La Scala. Leontyne Price was born in 1927, in Laurel, Misissippi. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The monster’s mother wants vengeance and Beowulf follows her into a deep, dark lake where he kills her. Beowulf kills Grendel by tearing his arm off. ![]() Grendel is a blood-thirsty monster who terrorises the hall at night. The manuscript is long, about 3000 lines in Old English, and is kept in the British Library and tells the story of the hero Beowulf and his battles with Grendel, Grendel’s mother and a dragon.īeowulf, from the kingdom of the Geats, in present-day Sweden, brings his warriors to help the Danish king defend his beautiful great hall from Grendel. Beowulf’s story has survived for about 1500 years, composed around the 6 th or 7 th centuries and written down in the 10 th or 11 th centuries. We have some great archaeological Anglo-Saxon finds including several hoards containing jewellery, such as the Staffordshire and Lenborough Hoards – hidden and never reclaimed – and the magnificent Sutton Hoo ship burial in Suffolk. The Anglo-Saxons have never left us: swear words, place names and the foundation of our language. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each candlestick provides a simple, visually appealing picture of price action a trader can instantly compare the relationship between the open and close as well as the high and low. If the stock closes lower than its opening price, a filled candlestick is drawn with the top of the body representing the opening price and the bottom of the body representing the closing price.Ĭompared to traditional bar charts, many traders consider candlestick charts more visually appealing and easier to interpret. ![]() If the stock closes higher than its opening price, a hollow candlestick is drawn with the bottom of the body representing the opening price and the top of the body representing the closing price. The high is marked by the top of the upper shadow and the low by the bottom of the lower shadow. The long thin lines above and below the body represent the high/low range and are called “shadows” (also referred to as “wicks” and “tails”). ![]() The hollow or filled portion of the candlestick is called “the body” (also referred to as “the real body”). In order to create a candlestick chart, you must have a data set that contains open, high, low and close values for each time period you want to display. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall. Agent: Russell Galen, Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary. A reissue of one of the greatest dark fantasy epics of our age, Glen Cooks The Black Company. With no lasting impact on the Company or their over-arching story, this makes for a pleasant diversion for fans of the series. Cook’s convoluted style is in full flower, and between the forgetting and the fact that Croaker is often kept in the dark, the plot can be somewhat hard to follow. Small acts of sabotage crop up in the camp, doubles of the young woman begin to appear, and someone or something is affecting the memories of the Company. They’re sent to capture a supposed rebel leader who turns out to be an innocent-seeming young woman, and things begin to get strange. Chronicler Croaker and the rest of the mercenary band are in service to a mysterious and powerful sorceress known as the Lady, but as they get comfortably dug in at their new posting, begin to realize that things are a little too quiet. Macmillan, 1984 - Fantasy fiction - 319 pages. The Black Company is an evocative and page-turning novel that will leave an imprint on the psyche of those who read it. ![]() ![]() After more than 17 years, Cook returns with a murky and ephemeral addition to his Chronicles of the Black Company grimdark fantasy series. ![]() ![]() The story moves quickly and is quite griping and gritty in its details. Only when it comes to her own protection does she have to reevaluate where she stands. Julia is a strong, independent character who tries valiantly to avoid the politics that goes on in her community. Van Diepen writes a powerful novel of the struggles to avoid the attraction of inner city gangs. All eyes turn to Julia and Eric as the snitches. At least until the night that the leader of the gang and some of his lieutenants are busted in a raid. For her own protection, and against Eric's pleadings, she asks to join the Crips, as well. ![]() Overnight, she is considered a snitch and loses all of her friends. With a subtle warning to Eric, life changes for Julia. ![]() But one night at a club, she hears that a rival gang is going to jump Eric. This goes against everything Julia believes, and soon, she breaks up with him. Before long, he has become a member of the Crips gang. At a school dance, however, Eric makes the first move on Julia, and they quickly become an item.īut Eric has secrets of his own that he's not willing to share. ![]() Julia is instantly attracted to the hot new student, but she's never been the type of girl to score a guy like him. A chance encounter in the dean's office on Eric's first day brings the two of them together. Up until the day that Eric Valiente shows up, she has succeeded. Julia and her friends try to stay clear of the gangs that run rampant in her Brooklyn high school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Therefore, there are no great cathedrals but plenty of temples, and several prominent people in The Dragon Waiting are avid devotees of the cult of Mithras. Emperor Julian, known as the Apostate for his repudiation of Christianity in our reality, is here Julian the Wise for declaring that all religions were on an equal footing. It’s also a Europe without a powerful Christian church. But Byzantium continues its plots to take over other kingdoms. ![]() It stopped at lands controlled by the English, the major power not under its control. ![]() But this is a Europe in which the Byzantine empire picked up from the fallen western Roman empire as the dominant power on the continent, reaching deep into France. This story starts with chapters describing three very different characters in different parts of 15th century Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the time the novel was written Communism was spreading to Europe and the United States. He wrote the novel to warn the people of the dangers of Communism. Orwell loved socialism but did not like the Communist perception of Socialism and the way they applied the socialist model. Unfortunately there arose Stalin, a leader who was a dictator, pretending to practise socialism yet he was a cruel dictator. All land and property was taken from private individuals and companies and put under the supervision of the government. The poor rebelled and overthrew the capitalists in order to have a communist society that would follow the ideas of Socialism. In Russia there had existed a system where a minority of rich and aristocrats owned most of the property under a dictatorial king. ![]() The novel culminates in the farm being renamed The Animal Farm while napoleon and other pigs initiate friendship with the human owners of the neighboring farm, and they become just like humansĪnimal Farm is an allegory-the book describes the Communism history in the Soviet Union and symbolizes real people and events during the Russian Revolution ![]() ![]() ‘SEO Agency’ must be on the double-secretĭo-not-use list because as soon as I added it, our listing got suspended.” “While in there, for some reason, I decided to add “SEO agency” as a Business Category. Then he forgot about it, until February.įebruary, while in a 20-person Zoom meeting on how much we should freak out about Core Web Vitals, I logged into LSG’s GMB dashboard to see if maybe we had been moved to Colorado (hopefully nearĪspen),” Shotland wrote in a post. He said Local SEO Guide doesn’t really rely on the company’s GMB page for leads, but sent a note to GMB support for help. ![]() According to GMB, he moved and opened a hotel, all in the midst of COVID-19. Not only did GMB somehowĬhange the location of this business, but said the company apparently opened a hotel, as Shotland wrote in a post. MediaPost about search, I’ve learned that Blumenthal and Local SEO Guide Founder Andrew Shotland are two funny and smart SEO guys. Thank you, Mike Blumenthal, Near Media co-founder and authority on local search, for calling this to our attention in a tweet. ![]() Well, not so funnyīecause Local SEO Guide, an SEO agency, was never located in Kansas, but Google My Business believes the Pleasanton, California, company has been located in Fawn Creek Township, KS, since November A funny thing happened on the way to Kansas. ![]() |