Lady Sharon | May 16, 2011
Flowers and Their Meanings "But love is for a sweeter flow’r Amid life’s thorny path o’care. ~Robert Burns To create a conversation, during the Middle Ages, plants and flowers with special meanings were chosen. Many of the plants that were used in a mixed posy were wild and were found in hedgerows or [...]
Category: History |
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Tags: courtly love, Flower Meanings, Flower Symbolism, Language of flowers, Medieval History, posy
Lady Sharon | May 16, 2011
Running Scared and Lipstick With a global audience of more than 125 million, the finals of the 56th Eurovision Song Contest 2011, was broadcast from a fully packed Fortuna Düsseldorf Arena in Germany. The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union, where each member country [...]
Category: Music and Minstrels |
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Tags: Azerbaijan, Ell/Nikki, Eurovision, Jedward, Lipstick, music, Running Scared
Lady Sharon | May 15, 2011
Flower Symbolism "O gods and goddesses! These flowers are like the pleasures of the world." ~ William Shakespeare Every flower has its own beauty, but many may not know that according to the history of the language of flowers, they also each have a definite meaning. Specifically chosen flowers can convey a message [...]
Category: History |
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Tags: courtly love, Flower Meanings, Flower Symbolism, Language of flowers, Medieval History, posy
Lady Sharon | May 14, 2011
Joe the Bunny and Liam "Fate still has blest me with a friend, In ev’re care and ill;" ~Robert Burns Sometimes fate delivers vulnerable creatures into the hands of young hearts. This happened when Liam found Joe, a paraplegic bunny, and his little brother. With a compassionate heart, Liam took them home and thought about [...]
Category: Animals and their Protectors, Tales of Chivalry |
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Tags: All Terrain Bunny, Joe the Bunny, Liam, Tales of Chivalry
Lady Sharon | May 13, 2011
Jane Harrop – A Brave Knight "Let all the number of the stars give light To thy fair way!" ~William Shakespeare A young woman, Jane Harrop, 30, from Birmingham, UK, was suffering from violent headaches for over seven months last year and had complained to her doctor nine times. She was prescribed anti-depressants, [...]
Category: Knyghts, Fellowship and Allegiance |
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Tags: brain virus, Chronic Pain, Health, Jane Harrop, Knight of the Pain Table, misdiagnosis, sub-acute meningomyeloencephalitis
Lady Sharon | May 12, 2011
Only When I Laugh Upon this day in Camelot, as the rain didst fall with a heavy hand, the weary Knights returned from battle, bruised and silent. With the bright torches being lit to announce the coming night, mead from bright bottles found its way around. King Arthur with his kind herte called three [...]
Category: Humor and Jesters |
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Tags: British Comedies, humour, James Bolam, Norman Binns, Only When I Laugh, Peter Bowles
Lady Sharon | May 10, 2011
Hahn-Bin – A Classical Artist "Sweet Muse! companion of my every hour!" ~ S.T. Coleridge Hahn-Bin is a young classical artist who possesses a great talent and expresses that talent with a unique beauty. At the tender age of five he commenced his violin studies in Seoul, Korea. Immediately, he began to excel [...]
Category: Music and Minstrels |
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Tags: Hahn-Bin, Itzhak Perlman, music, Soliloquy for Andy Warhol