Proserpina's WunderBlog

Forever Together.....

Sat, 4 Feb 2012 20:56:00 GMT

JUANA LA LOCA, CONCLUSION (PART III) (Parts I and II are found in the two previous blogs)Overjoyed at the prospect of seeing her father after five years of separation, Juana prepares to meet him in Tortoles where ‘together they will claim her throne’. Dressed in her best finery she meets her father who has ‘come home to her’. After a brief welcoming session, Juana discovers that her father just like Philip had no intention of stepping back and let Juana assu...
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Loss, and a new journey for Philip. (Going Home, Sweet Home). Juana, Part II

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:36:00 GMT

JUANA LA LOCAPART II (Part I, previous blog)PART IIYes, Philip and Juana meet again but it is not lust at first sight, it is now revenge at first sight.After a two year separation and without any contact with her husband, Juana decided to return to Flanders and perhaps resume her married life and be a mother to the three children she had left behind two years earlier. Juana’s father, King Fernando, insisted that infant Fernandito be left in Spain to be educated a...
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Happy B'day MASS! A Reversal of Fortunes. ( Lust and Love Royal Style.)

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:24:00 GMT

JUANA LA LOCA, Queen of SpainHistorical women of note have always fascinated me especially the ones from centuries past when most women were basically non-entities. Men ruled the world, and men were the inventors, travelers, writers, etc. Still now and then a few women equaled or out-shined the men in fields other than the role of motherhood. In past blogs I have featured a few of these exceptional women such as the first female doctor whose name was Trotula; the in...
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The No Topic Blog!

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 00:44:00 GMT

This is THE NO TOPIC BLOG!I have an idea for a new blog but it will be a while before I can do the research and write the new blog. In the meantime I will call the actual blog ‘The No Topic Blog’ and post whatever comes to mind on any given day.I am starting by posting one of my favorite poems by Pablo Neruda, it is one of the verses in his book titled “The Captain’s Verses”. Neruda wrote the ‘Verses’ for his lover, muse, and eventually wife Matilde Ur...
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New Year's Delicacies Around the World.

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:36:00 GMT

New Year foods around the world. The celebration of the New Year on January 1st is a relatively new. The earliest recording of a new year celebration, going back to c. 2000 B.C., is the mid-March celebration in Mesopotamia. The Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Persians began their new year with the Fall Equinox, and the Greeks celebrated theirs on the Winter Solstice.The early Romans celebrated the New Year on Mach 1, their calendar had only ten months and began with th...
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