Candace is not just a pretty name. It’s origins are ancient, and tied to one of the most powerful African kingdoms in its day, a kingdom which challenged the authority of the Roman Empire: Kush.
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Sancho I, king of Leon in the north of Spain, was overthrown...
Sancho I, king of Leon in the north of Spain, was overthrown by rebel nobels in 958 CE. In what is likely a never-before-and-never again accusation in history, the nobles accused Sancho of being unable to rule because he was too fat. His grandmother, Queen Toda Aznar of Navarra, sought help from the Muslim caliphate Cordoba in southern Spain. Again, extremely oddly, Queen Toda asked for two things: military aid to regain the throne, and medicinal aid to “cure” her grandson’s morbid obesity. Jewish physician Hisdai ibn Shaprut put ex-king Sancho on a strict diet. Once he was slim enough to ride a horse properly, Sancho reclaimed his throne with Muslim troops’ aid. (The portrait above is probably based on his post-diet look.) In short: a king was deposed because he was too fat, and got his throne back because he lost enough weight! Truth is stranger than fiction.
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"Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that..."
“Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.”
- from the first feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797). She wrote a pamphlet Vindication of the Rights of Man, followed by her most important book Vindication of the Rights of Women. In it, Wollstonecraft argued in it that the British people had the right to remove a bad king and that slavery and the treatment of the poor at that time were immoral, as well as the upbringing and treatment of women being immoral. Wollstonecraft saw the rights of men and women as mutual and inextricably linked. Sadly, she died at the early age of 38 in childbirth, and was unable to write more.
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- from the first feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797). She wrote a pamphlet Vindication of the Rights of Man, followed by her most important book Vindication of the Rights of Women. In it, Wollstonecraft argued in it that the British people had the right to remove a bad king and that slavery and the treatment of the poor at that time were immoral, as well as the upbringing and treatment of women being immoral. Wollstonecraft saw the rights of men and women as mutual and inextricably linked. Sadly, she died at the early age of 38 in childbirth, and was unable to write more.
December 19th 1967: Harold Holt declared deadOn this day in...
The Holts with UK PM Harold Wilson
December 19th 1967: Harold Holt declared dead
On this day in 1967, the Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt was officially presumed dead. Holt was Minister for Immigration between 1949 and 1956, and Treasurer between 1958 and 1966. He became Prime Minister in January 1966, and was in office for only 22 months before his disappearance, in which time he escalated Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War. On December 17th 1967, the Prime Minister went swimming at Cheviot Beach in Victoria against the wishes of his friends, who were cautious about Holt’s poor physical health. The Prime Minister was never heard from again. It is assumed that he drowned, and two days later, after a massive search operation, Holt was officially presumed dead. Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen was then sworn in as Prime Minister. As his body was never found, there are many conspiracy theories about Holt’s disappearance, with some claiming that he was kidnapped, abducted by aliens, or committed suicide.
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