Friday, May 24, 2024

 My name is Davis Lambeth. I have a cousin who was in the Marines during the Vietnam War, and who subsequently died from exposure to Agent Super Orange, one of the Rainbow herbicides used during that era. I also have a cousin who worked for a military contractor and helped design these same biological and chemical warfare agents. I cannot fathom how a person with a PHD in Organic Chemistry would choose to use that incredible knowledge to develop such a warfare agent. Go figure.  

Sunday, May 19, 2024

The Dark Lady's Death

 At approximately 8 in the morning, on Friday, May 19, 1536, Queen Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry Tudor VIII, was executed on the tower green of The Tower of London. Her brother, George, along with several other nobles loyal to Anne, had been executed two days earlier. She witnessed their executions from the room where she was held prisoner. 

Anne was 29 years old, and it was her birthday. Her crime had been that the king had tired of her, and that she had not produced a male heir. Political alliances fueled the flame of her demise, as the king had been more than willing to believe the worst of her when it was told to him. The irony of it for Henry is that he murdered his unborn male heir along with Anne, as he had not believed her when she told him that she was carrying his son. 

Anne was called many names by those who hated her: The Night Crow, The Great Whore, The King's Whore among them. Her physical appearance was denigrated, and it was said that she must have bewitched the king, as it was the only way that Henry would have married her. 

"And I require of you, if you meddle in my cause, judge the best."----  Anne Boleyn 



The Cemetery Stalker

It   was a hot summer afternoon; the first day of September. Ellie gathered some fresh red roses and white jasmine blooms from her yard, and...