History Trivia

On the 23rd day of May in 1430 Joan of Arc was captured by Burgundians. She was then sold to the English. In 1533 Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void and in 1618 The Thirty Years War began when three opponents of the Reformation were thrown through a window.

History Trivia

May 22, 1246 Henry Raspe was elected anti-king by the Rhenish prelates in France. In 1455 King Henry VI was taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans, during the War of the Roses and in 1570 Abraham Ortelius published the first modern atlas in Belgium. Also in 1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the creator of "Sherlock Holmes," ) was born.

Annual Renaissance Festival May 22 2010

The 12th Annual Renaissance Festival is scheduled for Saturday May 22nd from 12:00-00 to 8:00 p.m. at the James Arthur Vineyards, 2001 West Raymond Road, Raymond, NE 68428. Your favorite author will be participating in a medieval dance demonstration which includes Rufty Tufty and Toss the Duchess.

History Trivia

On May 21 996 sixteen year old Otto III was crowned the Roman Emperor. In 1471 King Henry VI was killed in the tower of London. Edward IV took the throne and in 1536 the Reformation was officially adopted in Geneva, Switzerland.

History Trivia

T.E. Lawrence (born in Tremadoc, Wales, in 1888), known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, was a legendary war hero, author, and archaeological scholar, who died on May 19, 1935. The retired Royal Air Force mechanic who lived under an assumed name succumbed to injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident six days before. His English translation of Homer's Odyssey was published under the name of T.E. Shaw. The Mint, a fictionalized account of Royal Air Force recruit training, was not published until 1955 because of its explicitness. Lawrence was a gifted military strategist and was greatly admired by the Bedouin people of Arabia. All of Britain mourned his passing.

History Trivia

On May 19 1535 French explorer Jacques Cartier set sail for North America. In 1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after she was convicted of adultery. In 1568, after being defeated by the Protestants, Mary the Queen of Scots, fled to England where she was imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth and in 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon, bound for England.

Famous Quotes

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

~Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)