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Now Medb’s armies were ready to invade, but separate tragedies had befallen Ulster. The men of Ulster had been crippled by an ancient curse laid by the goddess Macha, wife of Cruinniuc. The curse was laid after Macha was forced by the king of Ulster to race on foot against a chariot while heavily pregnant, and went ​that the men of Ulster would suffer though the pains of pregnancy in their greatest time of need. Also, many of the greatest Read More…

So it happened that Medb [P], Queen of Connaught – said to be so beautiful that it robbed men of two-thirds of their valour to simply look upon her – and her husband, King Ailill mac Máta [P], fell to arguing over wealth. Both rulers in their own right, they were equal in all power and property, but for one thing: Finnbhennach. Finnbhennach, the white horned, was a bull so potent and powerful, he made Ailill by far the richer Read More…

In the years following the death of Christ, long before the coming of the sainted Patrick, when the old gods still roamed the wild hills, and the howl of the Banshee was heard upon the wind, there was an age of heroes where the lines of myth and reality entwined. Many are the champions and kings of Irish legend that can be traced to some semi or fully-historical name, and in the telling of these sagas of old, even the Read More…

I enjoyed Bombay, once I got used to the smell of piss. I was staying in this absolute rat-sack of a hotel in Colaba, the southern end of Bombay. The touristy area. I’ll call it Bombay, not Mumbai. Two reasons. I only know one person who lives there, Ajay Aggarwal. He calls it Bombay. And of the many books I’ve read about India, the most interesting is Maximum Bombay by Suketu Mehta. He also calls it Bombay, so Bombay it Read More…

I’ll call it Bombay, I enjoyed Bombay, once I got used to the smell of piss. I was staying in this absolute rat-sack of a hotel in Colaba, the southern end of Bombay. The touristy area. I’ll call it Bombay, not Mumbai. Two reasons. I only know one person who lives there, Ajay Aggarwal. He calls it Bombay. And of the many books I’ve read about India, the most interesting is Maximum Bombay by Suketu Mehta. He also calls it Read More…

I enjoyed Bombay, once I got used to the smell of piss. I was staying in this absolute rat-sack of a hotel in Colaba, the southern end of Bombay. The touristy area. I’ll call it Bombay, not Mumbai. Two reasons. I only know one person who lives there, Ajay Aggarwal. He calls it Bombay. And of the many books I’ve read about India, the most interesting is Maximum Bombay by Suketu Mehta. He also calls it Bombay, so Bombay it Read More…

Getting There And Arrival I enjoyed Bombay, once I got used to the smell of piss. I was staying in this absolute rat-sack of a hotel in Colaba, the southern end of Bombay. The touristy area. I’ll call it Bombay, not Mumbai. Two reasons. I only know one person who lives there, Ajay Aggarwal. He calls it Bombay. And of the many books I’ve read about India, the most interesting is Maximum Bombay by Suketu Mehta. He also calls it Bombay, Read More…

Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – January 15, 1947), known posthumously as the “Black Dahlia“, was an American woman who was found murdered in Los Angeles, California. Her case became highly publicized due to the graphic nature of the crime, which included her corpse having been mutilated and bisected at the waist. Early life Elizabeth Short was born on July 29, 1924 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Shortly after she was born, her parents moved the family to Medford, Massachusetts. Cleo Short, Elizabeth’s Read More…

We continued our tour, travelling to Germany’s capital Berlin, where we enjoyed the cultural museums and taste tested many German beers. In Berlin, we visited the Berlin Wall, and Museum Island, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the Berlin Zoological Gardens. We had some fun at the hotel to celebrate our successes with more beer. While in the Netherlands capital, Amsterdam, we visited cultural and science museums, and windmills, lots of windmills. Nazzy (Nazgûl) didn’t want to leave the science Read More…