July 23, 1536: Death of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
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Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, (June 15, 1519 – July 23, 1536), was the son of King Henry VIII of England and his mistress, Elizabeth Blount, and the only child born out of wedlock whom Henry VIII acknowledged. He was the younger half-brother of Queen Mary I, as well as the older half-brother of Queen Elizabeth I and King Edward VI. Through his mother, he was the elder half-brother of the 4th Baroness Tailboys of Kyme and of the 2nd and 3rd Barons Tailboys of Kyme. He was named FitzRoy, which means “son of the king”.
Birth
Henry FitzRoy was born in June 1519. His mother was Elizabeth Blount, Catherine of Aragon’s lady-in-waiting, and his father was Henry VIII. FitzRoy was conceived when Queen Catherine was approaching her last confinement with another of Henry’s children, a stillborn daughter born in November 1518. To avoid scandal, Blount was taken…
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German Tactics For 1918 Spring Offensive I THE GREAT WAR Special
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Ten Minute History – The Austro-Hungarian Empire
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CCC Says We Must Spend £9000 To Stop Homes “Overheating” In Thirty Years Time!
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Crunch Time: Obsession With Unreliable Wind & Solar Threatens More Mass Blackouts
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Power grids are among the most sophisticated organisms on earth, but they were never designed for the chaos delivered daily by intermittent wind and solar.
For power consumers the first realisation that there’s a problem comes with load shedding (controlled blackouts) or mass blackouts (when the grid manager loses control, altogether).
When sudden and unpredictable collapses of wind power (calm weather) and sudden and wholly predictable collapses of solar power (sunset) coincide with periods of peak demand, it’s candles, torches and Gensets to the rescue. Californians know it, South Australians know it and Texans are learning fast.
In Australia, the hard-green left (Greens and Labor) are determined to wipeout every last coal-fired power plants in the country, rendering power both unaffordable and even more unreliable. Sadly, there are all too many amongst the (notionally conservative) Liberal party eager to assist.
With coal-fired power plants providing…
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The unbearable lightness of Kamala Harris
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The most famous comment about the US Vice Presidency was uttered by John Nance Garner, a tough Texan who was FDR’s VP for his first two terms:
“The vice presidency ain’t worth a bucket of warm spit.”
You can hit the link for the background to that colourful phrase, including the usual debates as to exactly how it was phrased and when it was said. Incidentally the link states that Garner was the one who first turned the office into a bit of a powerhouse, helping FDR get his policies through the House and Senate, but then Garner came from being Speaker of the House, the most powerful political position in the US aside from the Presidency.
Other VP’s would try the same stunt, notably another man from the rough and barren Texas lands, LBJ, who fell into the job with Kennedy’s 1960 Presidential win. LBJ imagined the VP becoming…
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