Tuesday, March 19, 2024

How Long Does It Take to Starve to Death?

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 How long does it take to starve to death?                           How long does it take to starve to death? A mode...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

Cannibalism at Jamestown, 1609, revisited: Some lines from JAMESTOWN: THE NOVEL (available on Amazon):

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“Then they took that poor boy’s body, and they washed it, and they chopped off his arms and his legs, and they roasted them and ate them!”  ...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

A Fateful Anniversary 400 Years Ago

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             Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, a Dutch ship brought Africans to Jamestown, Virginia--and sold them. The rest is histo...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

New Jamestown Mystery Unearthed!

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Last week, a new archaeological find at Jamestown: a skeleton that may well have been George Yeardley.  He’s a central figure in early Vi...
Saturday, April 7, 2018

Espionage in England

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No, not the recent Salisbury spy troubles, but secrets kept in the 400 yeares ago:  England’s greatest rival was Spain. England’s colon...
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Saturday, July 22, 2017

Jamestown, the Novel!

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"Jamestown: The Novel, the story of America's beginnings" is still available in print & ebook, even if "Jamestown: th...
Saturday, July 1, 2017

Another Jamestown Mystery?

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When in London last week, I read a notice that the last of the 8 episodes of "Jamestown" on Sky TV was to air Thursday. Not much b...