Thursday, 02 July 2009
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The Plantagenets
I lamented to Mom that it seemed that the only English history I could find revolved around Henry VIII, his wives and his progeny. She told me I needed to read about the Plantagenets, and proceeded to give me a book. It took three days to read nine pages. I spent quite a bit of time trying to decode the family tree in the front. She suggested I print one off of Wikipedia. Wikipedia has a great set of family trees all the way back to Ethelred I think, but it won't let me print! It is a wonder that those people didn't have three thumbs each with all the line breeding that went on. The book is really readable, any book with a family tree and a map is bound to be good.
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Comments (3)
I love English history. And English literature. Probably because I lived in England when I was a child. I'm so predictable, now that I think about it.
@ordinarybutloud - It's a good book.
Culture shock, biblical randomness and booty call - those are all awesome blogs! I am so glad I stopped by.
A plant in the mail? how fun!
I
don't think I will ever amass enough stuff to have a garage sale. I
chronically get rid of things in small batches. Although once the kids
are done with all the baby stuff I could see trying to sell all of it
to make a little money back... Donating it and taking a tax deduction
might require less work, though, now that I think about it... Not like
I will need to do that for a while.
Did you eat the fish?
I need to go look up those verses!