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A Royal Love Affair: The Mystery of Amy Robsart Dudley’s Death
... were always a hotspot for intrigues, secrets, schemes, and love affairs. Where prestige and power reign, true love is often nowhere to be found. But in those cases ... aspect. He was the favorite of Queen Elizabeth I. Their love affair was one of the biggest scandals of the English ...
Aleksa Vučković - 06/01/2021 - 17:55
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Hand-Holding Skeletons Were Both Men… And No, They Were Not Gay Lovers
... Years, A Couple with Mysterious Jade Rings and Dagger The Love of a Mother Never Dies: 4,800-Year-Old Remains of a ...
ashley cowie - 13/09/2019 - 19:26
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Socrates’ Philosophy of Love Inspired by Diotima Princess, Priestess and Philosopher
... that, in his youth, he was taught ‘the philosophy of love’ by a woman named Diotima, a priestess from Mantinea. ... Public Domain ) Diotima, Originator of Platonic Love Despite these little bits of information, Diotima played ... attended the banquet. She taught Socrates the concept of love as a means of ascent to contemplation of the divine, ...
MartiniF - 13/02/2019 - 17:21
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6,000-year-old Make Up Or Hunter’s Camouflage Cream? You Decide.
Ancient makeup from the Stone Age, a time of hunters and gathers. Really? The world’s media is buzzing with a story about prehistoric Europeans “using makeup,” 6,000 years ago. This discovery could well rewrite makeup history and it directly challenges the accepted ancient Egyptian origins of “cosmetics.” However, it is important in this debate to avoid projecting modern standards and values onto the lives of people from the very ancient past.
ashley cowie - 13/07/2021 - 18:58
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Orpheus: Mythical Greek Musician Went to Hell for His Lover
... deaths by sirens (Archivist / Adobe Stock) The Tragic Love Story of Orpheus and Eurydice At some point after his adventures with the Argonauts, Orpheus met and fell in love with Eurydice . Orpheus was not destined to live happily ... a fighter, Orpheus was not only unwilling to die for his love, he didn’t even fight for her. He just charmed his way ...
Robbie Mitchell - 20/08/2022 - 18:59
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Oshun: African Goddess of Love and Sweet Waters
Across many ancient civilizations throughout the world, love was placed under the domain of a certain deity, usually, ... world, for instance, there were Venus and Aphrodite , love goddesses of the Roman and Greek pantheons respectively. In the ancient Near East, love was personified in such goddesses as Ishtar and Astarte. ...
dhwty - 25/12/2019 - 12:28
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French Academic Detects A Little Bit of Love Magic on Egyptian Papyrus
... nature but the academic seems sure it adds up to a Coptic love spell. A French University lecturer has announced that ... nature but the academic seems sure it adds up to a Coptic love spell. The deciphering of the spell helps us to ... on this the academic argues that the papyrus is a Coptic love-spell, designed to help a person to attain the object of ...
Ed Whelan - 25/09/2018 - 23:01
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5 Heartbreaking Roman Myths That’ll Captivate You
... / Public Domain ) 3.Red Anemones: The Tragic Love Story of Venus and Adonis The myth of Venus and Adonis is a tale of passionate love, heart-wrenching tragedy, and the transformative power of nature. Venus, the stunning goddess of love and beauty, fell deeply in love with a mortal man named ...
Lex Leigh - 21/04/2023 - 22:53
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Another Scandalous Love Affair At the Tudor Court Of Henry VIII
The Devonshire Manuscript contains love poems written by the ladies at the court of Queen Anne ... of King Henry VIII. The Devonshire Manuscript contains love poems written by the ladies at the court of Queen Anne ... that Margaret and Thomas had bonded over their shared love of poetry. The manuscript offers an exciting glimpse ...
Beverley Adams - 06/10/2023 - 15:52
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Romeo and Juliet: Not a Shakespearean Tale After All
... stands in the historical record as one of the greatest love stories ever written. It has been retold many times in ... party. A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her father’s ... and Saraceni respectively. In this account, their love affair takes place in Siena, Italy rather than in Verona ...
Riley Winters - 11/06/2020 - 23:43
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Solomon and Sheba: Were a Famous Pharaoh and Queen the Real Protagonists in this Love Story?
The story of Solomon and Sheba is well known as one of love. But it is only when we learn their true identities that ... Queen. He literally moved mountains to express that love for her - well mountains of sand and soil to be precise. ... Hills today which we can look upon and sense a greater love than went into the building of the Pyramids. The story ...
Calumy - 26/08/2021 - 01:31
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The Lost Tribe of Clover Hollow – Oldest Civilization in the World Found in Appalachian Mountains?
The Appalachian Orogeny is one of the geological mountain building events that created the Appalachian Mountains. This orogeny occurred about 325 million years ago and was caused by Africa colliding with North America at a time when these continents did not exist in their current forms. It applied massive stress on what is today the Eastern Seaboard of North America, forming a wide and high mountain chain.
Dave Miller - 14/10/2016 - 14:58
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Who Was St Dwynwen and How is She Associated with St Valentine?
... saint of lovers. As you might expect, she has her own love story – although it’s not quite what we today would ... earliest version of her tale goes, Dwynwen was deeply in love with a young man called Maelon Dafodrill, but when she ... after her, Llanddwyn , on the island of Anglesey. Day of Love – the Complex Origins of Valentine’s Day Neolithic ...
ancient-origins - 11/02/2017 - 21:52
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The Story, Symbols and Powers of Freya, the Norse Goddess of Love
... “lady” and was the name given to the Norse goddess of love. Freya is old Norse for “lady” and was the name given to the Norse goddess of love. Whilst she certainly sought out passion and pleasure, ... Freja, Fröja or Frøya, is most known as the goddess of love , she also oversaw fertility , battle, and death. The ...
Molly Dowdeswell - 17/09/2022 - 02:00
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More than a Goddess of Love: The Many Other Aspects of Aphrodite
The Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite, has a very distinctive image in classical ... 2.0 ) But if the gorgeousness of the Greek goddess of love has been established as scholarly facts, what else can ... to poets – and not always for her beauty and domain over love. Worshiping the Goddess of Love Aphrodite’s cult was ...
MartiniF - 24/09/2016 - 02:04
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Stone Panels of Clover Hollow --Wondrous Freaks of Nature or Cryptic Messages from the Ancient Past?
A paradox of unparalleled proportion is coming to life on the side of Clover Hollow Mountain. The first clues suggesting an ancient civilization might have once existed here comes in the way of high resolution photographic evidence of stone panels that are abstract, creative, unique, artistic, clever, crumbling, and alien in nature.
Dave Miller - 27/10/2016 - 22:00
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18th Century Love Letters Written to French Sailors Finally Opened and Read
... Cultures and Societies through Timeless Expressions in Love Letters While many of the letters were written by ... partners (wives and fiancées) expressing feelings of love and remembrance, along with hopes that they would be ... their current or future husbands someday soon. One of the love letters written by Anne Le Cerf to her husband is ...
Nathan Falde - 08/11/2023 - 17:58
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The Godly Beauty of Adonis, Alluring Lover of the Greek Gods
... grew into an exceptionally handsome man, and won the love of Aphrodite , the Greek god of beauty, love, sexual pleasure and fertility, as a result of an accident. According to Ovid: “He wins the love of Venus (the Roman version of Aphrodite) and so avenges ...
dhwty - 13/08/2022 - 22:50
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The 4,000-Year-Old Sumerian Love Poem and the Sacred Ritual of Marriage
... king, from more than 4,000 years ago, in the oldest known love poem ever found. The loving words were passed down over ... My father, he will give you gifts. You, because you love me, Give me pray of your caresses, My lord god, my lord ... represented Inanna, the goddess of fertility and sexual love, while the king represented Dumuzi, on the eve of their ...
aprilholloway - 09/08/2014 - 13:37
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X-ray Reveals Someone Censored Marie Antoinette’s Letters
... on her husband, the king of France no less! The rumored “love letters” were exchanged between Marie Antoinette and ... Forensics Behind Marie Antoinette’s Letter Censorship Love . We’ve all dreamed about it, felt it and lost it. ... children our parents were completely confused as to what love actually is. Innocently, they peddled us fairytale ...
ashley cowie - 05/10/2021 - 22:14