Of the sisters, Pandrosus would keep the promise not to open the basket. The other two sisters, Herse and Aglauros let curiosity get the better of them and opened the basket. Both of these sisters fled in terror as they found that a serpent was coiled around the infant. Other variations...
No one particularly thought that the first log book was going to turn into something special, but when it was full and there were no pages left to record anything else, another book was ordered and filled again, and over and over it went for five decades. Having that kind of family deta...
And of all these, greatest among the children of men was my father, Thotme, keeper of the great temple, link between the Children of Light who dwelt within the temple and the races of men who inhabited the ten islands. Mouthpiece, after the three, of the Dweller of Unal, speaking to ...
THG is doing the first driving stint so I’ll be able to read my book n stuff. That’s one of the benefits of only having her car to drive. She wouldn’t drive my old Defender as it was too bit. I didn’t mind really but it did mean we wouldn’t be sharing the driving and ...
Looking back, for the first few years of my marriage my husband and I didn’t pray out loud together much at all. When we made the decision to make that a priority in our lives it was awkward at first. I’m embarrassed to say I was even a little uncomfortable to pray in public at...
“I remember my grandfather telling me that some distant member of our family set sail for America and never came back," Giovanni tells Lonely Planet. "I am sure our surname Giacoppo originated in Castanea delle Furie – this is where the family founder was born and is now buried in the...
*DISCLAIMER: I do not believe a single word of what I wrote above. I was just so angry with the way that this issue was reported in contrast to the way that the gang rape of women by footballers was reported. In my opinion, they are exactly the same; in fact the women raped by ...
All of the entries had been written by my 6th great-grandfather Johann Philip Meurer. He was the officiant for most of them, but not for one in the spring of 1757 — the funeral for his wife who died at the age of 39. The staff member, since he could read German script, told me...
He should have picked ANY other location in the United States than one in which he could use his ex-wife's writing to quench the ambitions of his nouvelle wife. Nell, Leonce's mother, who had known Kay since she was 14, and had raised Leonce fatherless since he was 8, believed that...
whom she was married to from 1988-1994. He was also the only grandson of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, and was sister to actress Riley Keogh. Benjamin is buried at Graceland in Memphis, next to his grandfather. It was a tragedy beyond belief, and Lisa Marie has pretty much remained out ...