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I think you've made jokes about the family trying to marry Philip off, were you being serious or was it just a joke? ^^'

Half serious, and half exaggeration. It wasn't actually that consistent of a thing, but it is reappearing in family letters. With all the eggs being put into Philip's basket, you can really imagine Hamilton wasn't the only one who planned out Philip's life and had expectations for him. Once again, these cases aren't that serious, and Philip was rather young when he died so I don't think marriage was the family's highest priority—but I'm certain there was some pressure to find a good woman, especially since how traditions were back then was that the eldest's partner would help run the house and family when parents grew a bit old (Not exactly arranged marriages but something similar).

Anyway, the earliest mention of it is sometime in the March of 1782, when Philip was three/two months old. Hamilton writes to his close friend and fellow aide-de-camp, Richard Kidder Meade, that Eliza was so close with Meade's second wife, Mary Fitzhugh Grymes Randolph, that they should have their kids marry so they could become in-laws;

Imagine my Dear Friend what pleasure it must give Eliza & myself to know that Mrs. Meade interests herself in us, without a personal acquaintance we have been long attached to her. My visit at Mr. Fitzhughs confirmed my partiality. Betsy is so fond of your family that she proposes to form a match between her Boy & your girl provided you will engage to make the latter as amiable as her mother.

Source — Alexander Hamilton to Richard Kidder Meade, [March 1782]

A more common occurrence was Angelica Church and her eagerness to have her daughters married off. She writes to Eliza and tells her to remind Philip - who was twelve during this time - of his “pretty cousin”, Elizabeth Matilda Church—she was only a year younger than Philip;

Adieu my dear Eliza. Embrace all the children and tell Philip that he is not to forget his cousin Eliza, she is very pretty and very good.

Source — Angelica Church to Elizabeth Hamilton, [January 25, 1794]

Again, just nearly a year later, she mentions a son of Eliza's should have Eliza M. or Angelica Church Jr as a wife. It isn't specified which son she is referring to, but it is likely Philip who seems to have regularly corresponded with his cousins on the Church's side of the family, and was relatively close with some members like Philip Church. Additionally, she describes the son as being a “chip off the old block”, meaning someone who is very similar in character to their father or mother, a coined characteristic Angelica had previously given Philip several times before;

My children are acting a play, they have a small theater in the drawing room and there performance is not very bad. Your son they tell me for wit and abilities is a child of the old Block. He shall have Eliza Angelica, for a wife.

Source — Angelica Church to Elizabeth Hamilton, [February 4, 1795]

But there was that time she wanted to have Alexander Jr and Eliza M. suited just five years prior, so this last one is a bit more of a dubious case. [x]

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Headless/Unsolved Babesteries Full Pre-Series  Timeline (SPOILERS FOR FINALE)

1609: Henry Hudson, Henrietta Hudson, and Frederick Storms set off to sea. - According to history, Henry discovered the Hudson River and founded Sleepy Hollow and appointed Ambrose Van Tassel as mayor. - In actuality, Henrietta discovered the Hudson River and founded Sleepy Hollow, starting her coven. Henry's ship drifted off-course to Nova Scotia where he was cruel to the natives there.

1609-1620: - Henrietta leads the Sleepy Hollow witch coven, which includes Anneke Storms and Juniper LeBouf. The settlement thrives. - At some point, Henry makes his way to Sleepy Hollow and becomes jealous of Henrietta's success. - He convinces Anneke, Juniper, and the rest of their coven to cast the headless curse on Henrietta, jealous of her power. The Headless Horseman is born. - Anneke hides her head in the Old Dutch Church, where they did the ritual (which will eventually serve as the town theater). This causes sleeping ivy to start growing around the church.

1620: Anneke starts the girls orphanage as penance for killing Henrietta. This orphanage will eventually become the Storms Inn.

October 1621: The settlement goes awry. Anneke dies in the orphanage basement by the Horseman's hand, though her fate is chalked up to a disappearance. Anneke changes her children's last names to her mother's maiden name: Crane. Her necklace gets passed down through her family line.

1622: Captain Gravy Davy Crowbones sees the Headless Horseman.

Post-1622 (misc): Captain Gravy Davy Crowbones falls in love with Juniper Lebouf in Sleepy Hollow. He receives Juniper's necklace when she dies upon its shores, and buries it with his treasures before his own death, somewhere near Sleepy Hollow.

1776: Battle of White Plains fought 10 miles away, Declaration of Independence signed

1777-1785: Cotton Van Tassel serves as mayor of Sleepy Hollow. Gets beheaded over soup that was "too wet".

1888: Reginald Van Tassel builds Van Tassel manor.

~1995: Ichabod Crane (presumed) Kat Van Tassel, Brom Bones, Matilda Bishop, the Babes (presumed), and Spike (presumed) are born.

1995-2005: - Ichabod loses his parents and moves in with his grandmother. He doesn't remember Sleepy Hollow. - Elizabeth Van Tassel takes Kat and Matilda to the wreck of the Liechtgevund. - Elizabeth starts theorizing that Henry Hudson was not the town founder. Publishers refuse to believe her.

2004: Max encounters Woman in White at Raven Rock (based on the reference to The Notebook film about to release). The spirit, at this point, is blonde.

2005: Elizabeth Van Tassel dies/disappears (Kat is 10). Kat is told she drowned by her father. In Elizabeth's last journal entry (September 2005), she mentions seeking to confront a spirit.

~2007-2009 (supposedly): Trevor Trinkets is born.

2009-2013: Kat, Matilda, Brom, Babes, and Spike all in H.S. together. Spike encounters the Woman in White in the woods, now a redhead. This traumatizes him and turns him emo, separating him from the other babes.

2013: Kat, Brom, and Matilda's yearbook is published. Kat tells Matilda, "See you on the other side"

~2013-2017: - Kat tries going away to college, but drops out at some point and returns home. - Tripp studies archaeology at Cornell. - Spike studies computer science.

2015: Max dies in Battle of White Plains reenactment

2021: - Rip Van Winkle decides to run for mayor. Baltus plans to poison him to take him out of the race, likely recruiting Matilda. - The Night of the Autumn Gala 2021: -- Baltus puts his plan into action, poisoning Rip Van Winkle's drink. -- Kat confronts her father about lying to her over her mother's death. In her anger, she takes and drinks the poisoned wine meant for Rip. She vomits, with Brom holding her hair. -- Kat dies later that night, with Dr. Crayon writing her death certificate. But Baltus recruits Matilda to resurrect Kat. - Matilda captures Rip in the woods, using his life-force to resurrect her by putting him to sleep, using the sleeping ivy that only grows around the Old Dutch Church. The spell will only last for one year (October 21) - One week later, Dr. Crayon demands more shush money from Baltus. Anne Tarry somewhat overhears this conversation. Baltus poisons her as well, killing her, with Dr. Crayon's supervision. Everyone is told she OD'ed. - Judy Gardenier becomes the mayor's assistant.

~2021-August 2022: - Ichabod's grandmother dies and leaves him Anneke Storms's necklace. - Ichabod applies to the open science teacher position at Sleepy Hollow Middle School. He has a going away party... which no one attends. - "Lucretia Lazenby" arrives in Sleepy Hollow, taking over Storms Inn (in actuality, Oksana Bolshekov is put under witness protection)

Undated

Henry Hudson's death by mutiny (the historical Hudson died in 1611, but Anneke's entries indicate he was still alive in 1621 in the Headless universe).

Bruce McConnell dies by tomato allergy.

Paulie Tahoe dies and is buried in Sleepy Hollow by his family.

Trevor Trinkets's actual birthday.

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Happy WBW! What’s a piece of worldbuilding you’ve done recently that you’d like to talk about?

oh my gosh YES!!!!

so, after two drafts I have finally officially named my characters.

Of course, because my setting is 1333 CE southern England inspired and I wanted to give my characters authentic medieval names... I just fell down a four day rabbit hole into medieval naming conventions. Here is some of the stuff I learned (this is gonna be looooooooong, thou hast been warned!! also, it is more a history info dump but it did help me pick names so):

For Muslims from Al-Andalusia (Iberian Peninsula), nearly every man had an Arabic given name taken straight from the Qur'an and most are still common today. Muslim women's names had a little more variation, with some being names from North Africa, specifically Morocco, rather than Arabic names.

Muslims often used devotional names instead of given names. These were basically just one of the many names for Allah such as Al-Rahim (The Merciful One). In general, I think naming conventions in Islam has changed a lot less into the modern day compared to Christianity.

Jewish Englishmen tended to have two names. One was the Hebrew name and the other was a name that was common in the region. Sometimes it was just a Christianized version of his Hebrew name. It is difficult to tell from official records (outside of records kept by Jewish authorities) if a man was Jewish because the "Christian" name was the one recorded.

Again, Jewish women had more variation in their names and were often named after flowers and virtues. They did not have two names.

Richard, Roger, Henry, and William are the most common English men's given names. Edward was virtually unheard of until King Henry III name his son Edward after Edward the Confessor (the last Anglo-Saxon King), then suddenly it was everywhere. John was less popular but still up there. Pretty much every man's name we have a record of is still in use today.

Isabella/Isabel, Matilda/Matilde, Alice, Agnes, Eleanor, and Margaret were the most popular women's names. There is a lot more variation though, and many names that are no longer popular today.

When recorded in wills, subsidy rolls, and other church and government documents men's and women's names were Latinized so the names in these documents do not necessarily represent what the names actually were or how they were spelled or pronounced. For example, a man whose name was William would have his name recorded as Willelmus. A lot of names we think of as men's names today were actually gender-neutral but were given gendered suffixes when recorded. Women with recorded names like Philippa, Alexandra, and Johanna may very well have been called Phillip, Alexander, and John in vernacular.

When naming medieval characters, it is also worth noting not just what names were popular but amongst whom. Alan for example was a Breton name that became popular amongst the Breton diaspora in England who fought for William the Conqueror. Names like Edward, Albert, Alfred, and Edmund were Anglo-Saxon names which were understandably unpopular with the Anglo-Norman upper class for two and half centuries. Names like William, Henry, Isabella, and Matilda came from the continent, mainly France, and were fashionable. Later in the 14th century onwards we start seeing Anglo-Normans named Edward and, a hundred years earlier, English peasants named Alan, but it took centuries for these names to lose their cultural associations. It is likely that Ango-Saxon naming traditions (including epic names like Wulfweard) persisted into the 14th century but there is little documentation of it, because, well, peasants.

What surprised me most about given names was that Mary (nor Maria), James, and George did not appear in any of the primary sources I looked at. Elizabeth appeared, but not nearly as much as Eleanor and its variations, like Annor.

Also, contrary to popular belief, most people at this time would have been known by their given names, not by a surname. Calling someone Mr. D'Arcy or Miss Benet is a convention that arose later. You see, in order to call someone by their last name, they have to have a last name. Hereditary surnames existed in the 14th century and were becoming more common but they were not yet standard. Most people were known by their first name plus a byname. The purpose of a byname was not to replace the first name in for formal settings (like is the case with a modern surname) but to be added to the given name to distinguish between multiple people with the same name.

For English Christians there were four main types of byname:

Occupational bynames the most common. This is names like Tayler, Chandler, Webster, Coke (cook), Fuller, Smythe etc.

Locative bynames fell into two categories. One was bynames for the specific place a person lived, like attewode (at the wood) and atteway (at the road). The other was bynames for a town, region, or country. People were rarely named after the city they were currently in -- there is no point in calling someone John de London if you are in London, because technically every John is de London. Instead people were named for the place they were born (if different from where they are now), the place they just came from, or the place they owned land.

When recorded in Latin, locative bynames were preceded by "de", so Alice de Worchester. Commoners were known by such names as often as nobles. Having a byname like "de France" did not necessarily mean you were a prince or princess of France. It just mean you came from France.

Familial bynames identified someone by a more well-known relative, as the child or their parents, or as the wife of their husband. Someone being known as Richard, brother of Agnes or Thomas, father of Margaret was not as common as Matthew, son of John or Matilda, daughter of Edward but it was not unheard of either. It really just depended on whether your relative was well-known.

When recorded in Latin patronymics (the most common form of familial byname) looked like, Edwardus fillius Rogerus or Isolda fillia Willelmus.

The last and least common (but best IMO) type of byname was the nickname. Some were compliments like Richard, Ceour de Lion (Lionheart), some were physical descriptors like Robin o' the Hoode (a hood being a very common clothing item with a liripipe) or Henri le Chauf (the Bald), and some where humorous. A very tall person might be named Lytle John ironically or an overly serious man called Lytleprud. Names could also come from embarrassing moments like, Fellinthewelle or from favourite expressions. Godsake and Godbewhytheye were not uncommon bynames. Hawesia Cristepis (Christ have peace!) was a real person.

Jewish law regulated bynames more than Christian law did. Generally under Jewish law a man was known by his father's name, and if there were two men with the same father and given name then by his grandfather's name. However, it was also more common for Jewish people to be known by female relatives. Jewish women exercised more freedom and economic independence than Christian women did and were often better known their communities than their husbands, brothers, sons, or fathers.

Muslims also used bynames, with familial bynames, specifically patronymics, being the most common. Metronymics were not unheard of though, and sometimes a father or mother might prefer to be known by their son rather than their own father.

There is evidence that hereditary surnames were becoming more and more common in England beginning in the 12th century, with records of sons having patronymics that refer to someone other than their father, and their own children using the same. I.e. Willelmus fillius Henricus was the son of Roger, not Henry, and William's own son Alan was also known as fillius Henricus rather than fillius Willelmus. This becomes more common by the middle of the 14th century but does not become mainstream until the end of the medieval period in the 16th century.

Okay, that was long. But I had fun!!!

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Elizabeth Matilda Church Bunner (1783-1867)

Elizabeth was the second daughter of Angelica Schuyler Church and John Barker Church.  Angelica had teased her sister, Elizabeth, about the name, saying that she was going to name her second daughter Eliza after John Barker Church’s mother. 

She married Rudolph Bunner (1779-1837) and had at least three children, including Catherine Cruger Bunner, as though that’s not confusing since Elizabeth’s older sister was Catharine Church Cruger (1779-1839).* But before you assume that Elizabeth was naming her own daughter after her sister, Bunner was also a Cruger going back a couple generations on his mother’s side. If the name Cruger seems familiar, it’s because one of AH’s boss on St. Croix was Nicholas Cruger (1743-1800). Nicholas was Catharine Church Cruger’s father-in-law; in 1802 she married his son, Bertram Peter Cruger, born on St. Croix in 1772. Read all about the 18th century Cruger men.

But back to the Angelica-John Barker Church children. 

From the top, clockwise, the four paintings are Elizabeth Matilda Church (1783-1867), John Barker Church, Jr. (1781-1865), Catharine “Kitty” Church (1779-1839), and Philip Church (1778-1861) painted by John Trossarelli.

See this summary of the Church kids by Danielle Funiciello. Not painted are Richard Hamilton Church (1785-1786), Alexander Church (1792-1802), and Richard Stephen Church (1798-1889).

By the way, John Church Cruger (1807-1879), son of Catharine Church Cruger, eventually marries (1843!) Euphemia White Van Rensselaer, one of the daughters of Stephen Van Rensselaer III (whose first wife was Margarita/Peggy Schuyler) and his second wife. And they give their kids names like Catherine Church Cruger and Stephen Van Rensselaer Cruger.

Stephen Van Rensselaer IV (1789-1868), the only child of Peggy’s who survived into adulthood, married Harriet Elizabeth Bayard (1799-1875), William Bayard’s daughter. To confuse one further, they had children with names like Margaret Schuyler Van Rensselaer (1819-1897) and Catherine Van Rensselaer (1827-1909), in addition to the obvious Stephen Van Rensselaer (1824-1861).

*In one of his letters, AH mentions that he knew Catharine from the time Angelica was pregnant with her, which means AH had met Angelica by 1779 at least. I’ve always thought a good argument could be made that he may have first met several of the Philip and Catharine VR Schuyler kids in 1774, by the time of the wedding of John Jay and Sarah Livington, daughter of William Livingston whom AH may have stayed with during this period. Livingston was related to both Philip Schuyler and Catharine VR Schuyler.

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for the writers ask: 5, 15, 20

5: What character that you’re writing do you most identify with?

it sorta depends on the fic. as a general rule, thomas; when i'm focusing on humphrey, then both humphrey and sophie. the answer which reveals far more about me than i'm willing to admit is stephen turnbull - yeowch, that got personal

15: Which is harder: titles or summaries (or tags)?

tags are the easiest, everything else is hell. i hate titles, and i hate summaries too - it's so frustrating when i've got a nice oneshot out and then i have to "name" it and "describe" it. unbelievable, honestly

20: Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes).

see, this is one of those things where i have so many ideas until someone actually asks me... i think the answer, though, is probably robin, and his relationship with time and the ghosts at button house (both ocs and canonical)

He was used to being mistaken for a demon, which, though irritating, was understandable—he did look quite frightening to the uninitiated. But an angel? What was he supposed to think of that?

a running theme in my works wrt robin is that he is very much intelligent, but most of the ghosts around him judge him as stupid/backwards/primitive or a relic of the past (some more than others).

“People get old,” he said. “Still at it. Forty thousand years, and no one figured out how to not get old yet. Or how to slow down time.”

“If only they would,” she said, not really looking at him; her hands were gripping, or maybe more failing to make contact with, a bedpost. “Does it ever scare you—that the world keeps changing?”

this is his relation to time and the passage of it - it's probably one of the biggest reasons i can't stop writing him! he's just so old, and i find it so fascinating to explore what he thinks and feels about how the world's changed and how bloody weird these modern day people with their churches and lack of bum are

“You don’t like Matilda?” he said.

“I don’t mind her,” Humphrey said, “but I’d like her more if she would advocate for not throwing me around.”

a slightly odder thing i like about robin is using him as an unreliable narrator - some of the ghosts he instantly vibes with (godric and leofstan), some of them he's mildly annoyed by (william and elizabeth, in different ways), and some of them he absolutely loathes (diuset). the thing is, almost all of them suck (except humphrey <3); it's just that robin's narration obscures some of this because he is particularly outspoken about how he Cannot Be Bothered to Deal with Elizabeth, or alternatively Have You Met Matilda? She's Perfect

“He’s going to die.”

“What tipped you off?” Leofstan snorted. “Was it the raspy breathing, or all the blood that he just threw up over his nice new carpet?”

oh and i have an unhealthy preoccupation with horrible deaths, but we all knew that

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IGP Dr Dampare, Aps Eric Nyamekye, Mensa Otabil make 2024 100 Most Reputable Africans List

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IGP Dr Dampare, Aps Eric Nyamekye, Mensa Otabil make 2024 100 Most Reputable Africans List

Reputation Poll International (RPI), a leading reputation management and public relations consultancy firm has announced the 2024 list of its annual publication of 100 Most Reputable Africans which recognises individuals who have made significant contributions to their respective fields and have built a strong reputation.

The list features prominent Ghanaians such as the Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, The Church of Pentecost Chairman, Apostle Eric Nyamekye, Cardinal Peter Turkson and ICGC General Overseer Dr Mensa Otabil.

Other Ghanaians on the list are Fred Swaniker, Roberta Annan, Dr Sangu Delle, Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, Hon Sophia Karen Edem Ackuaku and HRM Drolor Bosso Adamtey.

This year’s list features a diverse group of individuals from various sectors, including politics, business, entertainment, and human rights advocacy. Some of the notable names listed in the business category include Nigeria’s Femi Otedola; Sudanese – British billionaire businessman Mo Ibrahim and Zimbabwe’s Kenneth Sharpe. Mahmood Mamdani; Chancellor at Kampala International University; Tanzanian’s biodiversity leader Elizabeth Maruma Mrema Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Liberia’s Former president Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

In addition to the individuals recognised on Reputation Poll International’s “100 Most Reputable Africans” list for their various achievements, there are also those who are celebrated for their contributions to social impact and social entrepreneurship, helping to transform businesses in Africa and positively impacting lives without causing controversy.

Beninese Singer & songwriter Angelique Kidjo and Danai Jekesai Zimbabwean-American Actress were featured in the entertainment category.

All things considered, the list of the 100 Most Reputable Africans is evidence of the tenacity and resiliency of the African continent. It draws attention to the accomplishments of people who are trying to change the world and make a better life for others. The list serves as a source of inspiration for all Africans and a reminder of the numerous gifted and accomplished people changing the globe.

Below is the list of the 100 Most Reputable Africans in 2024.

Angelique Kidjo || Singer & Songwriter and actress

Abderrahmane Sissako || Mauritanian-born Malian film director and producer

Abshir Aden Ferro|| Somalian politician

Abdul Samad Isyaku Rabiu (CFR CON) || Businessman and philanthropist

Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf  || Somalia Judge and Attorney

Abdulrazak Gurnah || Tanzanian-British novelist and academic

Agnes Matilda Kalibata || President of Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

Alek Wek|| South Sudanese-British model and designer

Ann Peacock

Armstrong Ume Takakang (Dr) || CEO, Nigeria’s Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI)

Berhane Asfaw || Ethiopian Palaeontologist

Bience Philomina Gawanas ||  Namibian lawyer

Catherine Uju Ifejika || Lawyer and legal expert

Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinal || Italian Actress

Constance Connie Ferguson || Filmmaker, businesswoman

Cynthia Davies CBE || CEO of the Diversifying Group

Danai Jekesai || Actress

Daniël Christiaan de Wet Swanepoel || South-African professor

David Moinina Sengeh || Sierra-Leone Politician

Debra Mallowah || Vice president for Coca-Cola’s East and Central African franchise

Diébédo Francis Kéré || Architect

Denis Mukwege || Pentecostal pastor and Congolese Gynaecologist

Drolor Bosso Adamtey (HRM) || Suapolor, Se (Shai) Traditional Area

Ebenezer Bonyah || Associate Professor

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema || Biodiversity leader and lawyer

Apostle Eric Nyamekye || Chairman of the Church of Pentecost

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf || Former president of Liberia

Emmanuel Mark Kembe || South Sudan Musician

Eric Yirenkyi Danquah|| Ghanaian Plant geneticist

Euvin Naidoo || South African Banking Executive

Femi Otedola || NigerianBusinessman and Philanthropist

Folorunsho Alakija || Nigerian Businessman

Fransisco Aupa Indongo|| Namibian Business man and politician

Fred Swaniker || Entrepreneur

Gabriel Aduda || Permanent Secretary Ministry of Petroleum Resources Nigeria

Gebisa Ejeta ||Ethiopian American plant breeder, geneticist and Professor

George Akuffo Dampare|| Inspector General of Police, Ghana

Gideon Boko Duma || Motswana Politician

Gilbert Houngbo || Togolese politician and diplomat

Ibukun Awosika || Chairperson, Board of Directors, First Bank of Nigeria Limited

Isatou Ceesay || Gambian activist and social entrepreneur

Jeanette Marais || CEO, Momentum Investment

Jahman Oladejo Anikulapo || Nigerian Journalist

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum || Congolese Microbiologist

Jimmy Volmink || Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University

Joseph Nyumah Boakai || President of Liberia

Juldeh Camara|| Musician

Julian Kyula || Co-Founder, Board Member, and Group CEO, MoDe

Jumoke Oduwole || Special Adviser to the President of Nigeria on Ease of Doing Business in the Office of the Vice President

Kandeh Kolleh Yumkellah || Sierra Leonean agricultural economist, politician

Kennedy Odede || CEO, Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO)

Kenneth Sharpe || Zimbabwean businessman, philanthropist

Khairy Beshara|| Egyptian film director

Ladisias Prosper Agbesi || CEO, Lash Group

Leymah Roberta Gbowee || Liberian peace activist

Mahmood Mamdani || Ugandan Scholar

Manuel Lopes Andrade (Tcheka) || Cape Verdean singer, songwriter and guitarist

Masenate Mohato Seeiso (HRM) || Queen of Lesotho

Maud Chifamba|| Academician

Mensa Otabil(Dr) || Ghanaian Pastor and Motivational Speaker

Mike Jocktane || Politician and Pastor of Gabonese Protestants

Mo Ibrahim || Founder, Mo Ibrahim Foundation

Modupe Adefeso-Olateju || Organizational Leader and Policy Expert

Mogoeng Mogoeng || South African Jurist

Mohamed Hag Ali Hag el Hassan|| Sudanese-Italian mathematician and physicist

Mohamed Osman Baloola || Sudanese scientist and inventor

Monique Nsanzabaganwa (Dr) || Deputy Chairperson, African Union Commission

Muhammed Bulama (Dr) || Deputy Director, Multi-Media of the APC Presidential Campaign for the 2023 presidential elections

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah || Namibian politician

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Dr) || Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Nnenna Oti (Prof) || Vice-Chancellor of Federal University of Technology Owerri.

Nuhu Ribadumni || Nigerian politician and retired police officer

Okello Oculi || Ugandan Novelist, Poet

Ory Okolloh || Blogger, Lawyer, and Activist

Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires || Cape Verdean politician

Enenche Paul (DR) || Medical Doctor, Televangelist

Peter Turkson (His Eminence) || Ghanaian Prelate, cardinal of the catholic church

Polycarp Pengo (His Eminence) || Tanzanian Prelate, Cardinal of the catholic church

Rachid Yazami || Moroccan Scientist, engineer and Inventor

Rajae Ghanimi || Medical Doctor

Rediet Abebe || Ethiopian computer scientist

Roberta Annan || Ghanaian Business woman, Investor and Philanthropist

Rosalia Hausiku Martins || Director, Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry Board

Ronald Lamola || Politician and Attorney

Rita Oyoku || Entrepreneur

Samia Suluhu Hassan || President of Tanzania

Sangu Delle (Dr) || Pan-African entrepreneur and investor

Sherrie Silver || Choreographer

Osinachi Kalu Okoro Egbu || Singer &Song Writer

Sinari Bolade Daranijo || Entrepreneur

Siya Kolisi || South African Rugby Player

Sophia Karen Edem Ackuaku (Hon) || Managing Director, Amsos Ghana Ltd

Sven Thieme || Namibian Business Man

Tariye Gbadegesin|| CEO, ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investment

Sister Theopista Namukasa || Teacher

Trevor Noah|| Comedian

Tom Alweendo || Namibian politician

Vusi Thembekwayo || Business Man, Author, Speaker

Wanjira Mathai || Vice President and Regional Director for Africa, World Resources Institute Kenya

Zainab Hawa Bangura|| Sierra Leonean politician and social activist

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[wutbju]

Philip Calvin Hughey III, born on April 4, 1944, in Manhattan, New York, passed away on November 30, 2023 in Manchester, New Hampshire. He was the cherished son of Rev. Philip C. Hughey Jr. and Alberta Wray (Daniels) Hughey.

Phil's journey was one marked by unwavering service and faith. On October 19, 1968, he married Marilyn (Francis) Hughey, in Rantoul, Illinois, beginning a loving partnership that spanned over five decades. A graduate of Bob Jones University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts in music, Phil's passion for music became a cornerstone of his identity. Following his academic pursuits, he served with honor in the United States Air Force for four years as a staff sergeant, specializing in jet mechanics. Phil's spiritual journey led him to serve as Assistant Pastor at First Baptist Church in Caribou, Maine, and later in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts. His guidance and compassion provided comfort to those who sought solace within the congregation.

A pivotal chapter in Phil's life began when he became the director of the Boylston Home for Girls in Manchester, New Hampshire. His encouragement and support left a lasting impact on the lives of the young women under his care. Phil concluded his professional journey with tenure at the Manchester Health Department, where he became affectionately known as "Mr. Phil." His service to public health showcased his commitment to the well-being of the community.

Phil was a long-time member of Southside Bible Fellowship Church in Manchester. His musical talents contributed to the worship team as he played the organ and piano. Phil's dedication extended to teaching Sunday school, volunteering with AWANA clubs, and serving as a church community Elder. Phil is survived by his wife Marilyn; his children, Jennings Alys (Hughey) Loftus and husband Timothy, Daniel Philip and wife Kathleen (Wall) Hughey, and Sarah Elizabeth (Hughey) Kruse and husband Klaus. He adored his grandchildren, Savana and Morgen Hughey, Jace Loftus, Matilda, Magdelena, and Charles Kruse. Phil is also survived by his sisters, Berta and her husband Erwin Merill, Sue Hughey, Ruth and her husband Gary Venidestine, brother Paul Hughey and his wife Lori, sister-in-law Carolyn and her husband Lyman Johnson, as well as many nieces and nephews. Phil's legacy of love, faith, and service will forever be etched in the hearts of those who were fortunate enough to know him.

A celebration of Phil's life service for friends and family will be held at South Side Bible Fellowship on 09 December 2023 at 1pm. Located a 200 South Jewett St., Manchester, NH 03103. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Southside Bible Fellowship Deacon Fund in Phil's honor. May he rest in peace, and may his memory be a source of comfort and inspiration to us all.

[brookston]

Holidays 11.19

Holidays

Alligator Wrestling Day

Automatic Toll Collection Day

Day of Missile Forces and Artillery (Belarus, Russia)

Dedication Day

Discovery Day (Puerto Rico)

Equal Opportunity Day

Fast for an Abundant World Harvest

Fete de S.A.A. le Prince Souverain (Monaco)

Flag Day (Brazil)

Garifuna Settlement Day (Belize)

Gettysburg Address Day

Group Rates For Group Souls Day

”Have A Bad Day” Day

International Journalist’s Remembrance Day

International Make Someone Feel Uncomfortable Day

International Men's Day

Liberation Day (Mali)

Martyr’s Day (Uttar Pradesh, India)

National Ammo Day

National Blow Bagpipes Day

National Camp Day

National Domino Day (Netherlands)

National Rural Health Day

Play Monopoly Day

Please Maintain Your Focus Today Day

Prince Rainier Day (Monaco)

Rocky & Bullwinkle Day

Tape Your Face Day

’What Ever Happened to Gary Puckett?’ Day

Women’s Entrepreneurship Day

World Toilet Day (UN)

Zion National Park Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day

National Macchiato Day

3rd Saturday in November

Family Volunteer Day [Saturday before Thanksgiving]

International Games Day [3rd Saturday]

International Restaurant Day [3rd Saturday] (also Feb, May & Aug)

National Adoption Day [Saturday before Thanksgiving]

National Survivors of Suicide Day [Saturday before Thanksgiving]

Surin Elephant Round-Up begins (Thailand) [3rd Saturday]

Feast Days

Barlaam (Christian; Saint)

Guru Nanak Jayanti (Sikh; India, Nepal)

Hate For the Sake of Hating Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Karthika Purnima (a.k.a. Rahasa Purnima; Parts of India)

Obadiah (Eastern Catholic Church)

Pontian, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Raphael Kalinowski (Christian; Saint)

Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician (Christian; Saints)

Singbad the Sailor (Muppetism)

World Toilet Day (Pastafarian)

Ximenes (Positivist; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 53 of 60)

Premieres

Addams Family Values (Film; 1993)

Artistry in Rhythm, by Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Album; 1943)

Brain Salad Surgery, by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Album; 1973)

Coda, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1982)

Cowboy BeBop (TV Series; 2021)

Dylan, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1973)

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (Film; 2021)

Joe’s Garage, by Frank Zappa (Rock Opera; 1979)

Liverpool Oratorio, by Paul McCartney (Oratorio; 1991)

National Treasure (Film; 2004)

Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang, by Dr. Dre (Song; 1992)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Film; 1975)

Somebody to Love, by Queen (Song; 1976)

The Wheel of Time (TV Series; 2021)

The World Is Not Enough (US Film; 1999) [James Bond #19]

Today’s Name Days

Bettina, Elisabeth, Lisa (Austria)

Jakov, Matilda, Obadija, Salomeja (Croatia)

Alžběta (Czech Republic)

Elisabeth (Denmark)

Betti, Eliisabet, Eliise, Elis, Els, Elsa, Else, Ilse, Liis, Liisa, Liisi, Liisu (Estonia)

Eliisa, Elisa, Elisabet, Elise, Liisa, Liisi (Finland)

Tanguy (France)

Bettina, Elisabeth, Lisa, Roman (Germany)

Erzsébet (Hungary)

Fausto (Italy)

Betija, Elizabete, Līza, Līze (Latvia)

Dainotas, Matilda, Rimgaudė (Lithuania)

Elisabeth, Lisbet (Norway)

Elżbieta, Mironiega, Paweł, Seweryn, Seweryna (Poland)

Alexander (Russia)

Alžbeta (Slovakia)

Crispín, Matilde (Spain)

Elisabet, Lisbet (Sweden)

Bessie, Beth, Betsy, Betty, Elisa, Elisabeth, Elise, Elissa, Eliza, Elizabeth, Elsa, Elsie, Elyse, Elyssa, Elza, Libby, Lisa, Liza, Lizbeth, Lizette (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 323 of 2022; 42 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 46 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Constraint) [Day 22 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Lùyuè), Day 26 (Bing-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 25 Cheshvan 5783

Islamic: 24 Rabi II 1444

J Cal: 23 Mir; Oneday [23 of 30]

Julian: 6 November 2022

Moon: 21%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 15 Frederic (12th Month) [Ximenes]

Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 58 of 90)

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 28 of 31)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 11.19

Holidays

Alligator Wrestling Day

Automatic Toll Collection Day

Day of Missile Forces and Artillery (Belarus, Russia)

Dedication Day

Discovery Day (Puerto Rico)

Equal Opportunity Day

Fast for an Abundant World Harvest

Fete de S.A.A. le Prince Souverain (Monaco)

Flag Day (Brazil)

Garifuna Settlement Day (Belize)

Gettysburg Address Day

Group Rates For Group Souls Day

”Have A Bad Day” Day

International Journalist’s Remembrance Day

International Make Someone Feel Uncomfortable Day

International Men's Day

Liberation Day (Mali)

Martyr’s Day (Uttar Pradesh, India)

National Ammo Day

National Blow Bagpipes Day

National Camp Day

National Domino Day (Netherlands)

National Rural Health Day

Play Monopoly Day

Please Maintain Your Focus Today Day

Prince Rainier Day (Monaco)

Rocky & Bullwinkle Day

Tape Your Face Day

’What Ever Happened to Gary Puckett?’ Day

Women’s Entrepreneurship Day

World Toilet Day (UN)

Zion National Park Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day

National Macchiato Day

3rd Saturday in November

Family Volunteer Day [Saturday before Thanksgiving]

International Games Day [3rd Saturday]

International Restaurant Day [3rd Saturday] (also Feb, May & Aug)

National Adoption Day [Saturday before Thanksgiving]

National Survivors of Suicide Day [Saturday before Thanksgiving]

Surin Elephant Round-Up begins (Thailand) [3rd Saturday]

Feast Days

Barlaam (Christian; Saint)

Guru Nanak Jayanti (Sikh; India, Nepal)

Hate For the Sake of Hating Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Karthika Purnima (a.k.a. Rahasa Purnima; Parts of India)

Obadiah (Eastern Catholic Church)

Pontian, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Raphael Kalinowski (Christian; Saint)

Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician (Christian; Saints)

Singbad the Sailor (Muppetism)

World Toilet Day (Pastafarian)

Ximenes (Positivist; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 53 of 60)

Premieres

Addams Family Values (Film; 1993)

Artistry in Rhythm, by Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Album; 1943)

Brain Salad Surgery, by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Album; 1973)

Coda, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1982)

Cowboy BeBop (TV Series; 2021)

Dylan, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1973)

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (Film; 2021)

Joe’s Garage, by Frank Zappa (Rock Opera; 1979)

Liverpool Oratorio, by Paul McCartney (Oratorio; 1991)

National Treasure (Film; 2004)

Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang, by Dr. Dre (Song; 1992)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Film; 1975)

Somebody to Love, by Queen (Song; 1976)

The Wheel of Time (TV Series; 2021)

The World Is Not Enough (US Film; 1999) [James Bond #19]

Today’s Name Days

Bettina, Elisabeth, Lisa (Austria)

Jakov, Matilda, Obadija, Salomeja (Croatia)

Alžběta (Czech Republic)

Elisabeth (Denmark)

Betti, Eliisabet, Eliise, Elis, Els, Elsa, Else, Ilse, Liis, Liisa, Liisi, Liisu (Estonia)

Eliisa, Elisa, Elisabet, Elise, Liisa, Liisi (Finland)

Tanguy (France)

Bettina, Elisabeth, Lisa, Roman (Germany)

Erzsébet (Hungary)

Fausto (Italy)

Betija, Elizabete, Līza, Līze (Latvia)

Dainotas, Matilda, Rimgaudė (Lithuania)

Elisabeth, Lisbet (Norway)

Elżbieta, Mironiega, Paweł, Seweryn, Seweryna (Poland)

Alexander (Russia)

Alžbeta (Slovakia)

Crispín, Matilde (Spain)

Elisabet, Lisbet (Sweden)

Bessie, Beth, Betsy, Betty, Elisa, Elisabeth, Elise, Elissa, Eliza, Elizabeth, Elsa, Elsie, Elyse, Elyssa, Elza, Libby, Lisa, Liza, Lizbeth, Lizette (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 323 of 2022; 42 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 46 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Constraint) [Day 22 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Lùyuè), Day 26 (Bing-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 25 Cheshvan 5783

Islamic: 24 Rabi II 1444

J Cal: 23 Mir; Oneday [23 of 30]

Julian: 6 November 2022

Moon: 21%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 15 Frederic (12th Month) [Ximenes]

Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 58 of 90)

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 28 of 31)

[yr-obedt-cicero]

“My children are acting a play, they have a small theater in the drawing room and there performance is not very bad. Your son they tell me for wit and abilities is a child of the old Block. He shall have Eliza Angelica, for a wife.”

Angelica Church to Elizabeth Hamilton, [February 4, 1795]

[nanshe-of-nina]

Favorite History Books || She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor ★★★★☆

This is an attempt to write the kind of book I loved to read before history became my profession as well as my pleasure. It is about people, and about power. It is a work of story- telling, of biographical narrative rather than theory or cross-cultural comparison. I have sought to root it in the perspectives of the people whose lives and words are recounted here, rather than in historiographical debate, and to form my own sense, so far as the evidence allows, of their individual experiences. In the process, I hope their lives will also serve to illuminate a bigger story about the questions over which they fought and the dilemmas they faced—one that crosses the historical divide between “medieval” and “early modern,” an artificial boundary that none of them would have recognised or understood.

What the evidence allows is, of course, very different as we look back from the sixteenth to the twelfth century. The face of Elizabeth I is almost as familiar as that of Elizabeth II, and the story of her life can be pieced together not only from the copious pronouncements of her government, but also from notes and letters in her own handwriting and from the private observations of courtiers and ambassadors, scholars and spies. Four hundred years earlier, with the significant exception of the Church, English culture was largely non-literate. Memory and the spoken word were the repositories of learning for the many, the written word only for the clerical few. A historian, relying on the remarkable endurance of ink and parchment rather than on a vanished oral tradition, can never know Matilda, who so nearly took the throne in the 1140s, as closely or as well as her descendant Elizabeth. But we know a great deal, all the same, about what Matilda did, and how she did it; how she acted and reacted amid the dramatic events of a turbulent life; and how she was seen by others, whether from the perspective of a battlefield or that of a monastic scriptorium. If the surviving sources cannot give us an intimate portrait suffused with private sentiment, they take us instead to the heart of the collision between personal relationships and public roles that made up the dynastic government of a hereditary monarchy.

These stories also trace the changing extent and configuration of the territories ruled by the English crown within a European context that was not a static bloc of interlocking nation-states, but an unpredictable arena in which frontiers ebbed and flowed with the shifting currents of warfare and diplomacy. That context lies behind one consistent inconsistency within these pages: I have used different linguistic forms to distinguish between contemporaries who shared the same name. I have chosen not to disturb the familiar identification of the main protagonists by their anglicised names, but I hope nevertheless that such differentiation might not only have the convenience of clarity, but also give a flavour of the multilingual world in which they lived.

[lesbianfeminists]

“The most grievous wrong ever inflicted on woman has been in the Christian teaching that she was not created equal to man, and the consequent denial of her rightful place in Church and State.” –Matilda Joslyn Gage, Woman, Church, and State, 1893, page 1

“I do not approve of their [referring to Gage and Stanton] system of fighting the religious dogmas of people I am trying to convert to my doctrine of equal rights to women.” –Susan B. Anthony to Olympia Brown, following the disputed merger of the radical National Women’s Suffrage Association with the conservative American Women’s Suffrage Association in 1889

Most readers of Feminism and Religion know that Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were leaders in the nineteenth century struggle for women’s rights. Fewer will know that Matilda Joslyn Gage was widely understood to be Stanton’s equal as a theorist and Anthony’s equal as an organizer. The fact that Gage’s contributions have been lost to history can be attributed to Susan B. Anthony’s bargain with the devil.

If Anthony’s bargain had affected only the reputation of Matilda Joslyn Gage, that would be bad enough. But Anthony’s decision to merge the NWSA with the AWSA signaled that the women’s rights movement would cease and desist from its policy of naming and indicting Christian dogma as the source and cause of women’s subordination in the law in Christian countries. This decision meant that feminists would no longer have a clear understanding of the forces they were reckoning with.

When the AWSA proposed merger with the NWSA, it had recently accepted a large number of new members from the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. The WCTU’s leaders had come to the conclusion that if women were given the vote they would vote for prohibition. But their agenda did not stop there. They intended to introduce a Constitutional Amendment that would name Jesus Christ as “the author and head” of the United States government, to require Christian prayer in public schools, and to prohibit any public assembly on the Sabbath that was not organized by the church. (Many of today’s opponents of women’s rights would support these ideas.) The radical members of the NWSA were appalled and assumed that the merger would never happen.

But in 1889, Anthony decided that achieving the vote for women would require the support of Christian women. Knowing that Gage would lead the opposition, she arranged for her to be denied travel funding to attend the upcoming NWSA meetings, did not announce that the merger question would be on the agenda, personally selected committee members favorable to the merger, and introduced the question of the merger at 11 pm on the last day of the meetings, when many women, not knowing that anything important remained to be discussed, had already gone home.

Not surprisingly a great number of women protested, but it was too late. Gage went on to organize the Woman’s National Liberal Union, which once again indicted Christianity as “the chief means of enslaving woman’s conscience and reason,” calling for the separation of Church and State and opposing prayer and religious instruction in the schools. In 1893, Gage published her massive Woman, Church, and State. She died in 1898.

The first three volumes of the History of Women’s Suffrage, officially edited by Stanton, Anthony, and Gage, had been written and edited primarily by Gage and Stanton: Anthony was not a writer. After the merger of the AWSA and the NWSA, Anthony asked her biographer Ida Husted Harper to help her write the final volumes. Gage was effectively written out of history.

Anthony’s actions can be considered reprehensible in and of themselves. She used underhanded methods, and she distorted the truth about the radical nature of the nineteenth century women’s rights movement. If it had only been the reputation of Gage that had suffered, this would have been bad enough. But Anthony’s rewriting of history had more egregious consequences: it signaled that the women’s rights movement would henceforth cease and desist from naming Christian dogma as one of the greatest impediments to the achievement of women’s rights.

Today, feminists are often mystified by the strength of the opposition to access to birth control and abortion and to amending the Constitution to affirm equality of rights under the law for women. In fact much of the opposition to women’s rights-including birth control, abortion, equal rights–comes from Christians, especially from Roman Catholics, Evangelical Protestants, and Mormons. These groups affirm the traditional Christian teaching that women were created to serve and obey men.

The members of the NWSA were not afraid to attack religious dogma. Today many feminists are unfamiliar with Christian dogma and find themselves at a loss when confronted with religious opposition to women’s rights. Secular feminists may be swayed by the argument that “everyone is entitled to their own religious beliefs,” while failing to understand that religious beliefs have never been purely private matters. They may hope that religion will simply wither away. They may wish not to offend liberal and progressive Christians who support women’s rights. Gage, on the other hand, understood that traditional Christian beliefs have shaped every aspect of women’s lives from the time of Constantine to the present day, and she insisted that they must be challenged directly.

Anthony’s bargain with the devil may have hastened the passage of the women’s suffrage amendment. But it left us with a weakened understanding of the forces waged against the struggle for women’s rights. It is high time feminists spend as much time studying the history of religion as they do studying, for example, Marx and Freud. Gage’s book Woman, Church, and State would be a good place to start.”

[46ten]

The Bunner siblings

A follow-up to this post that mentions Rudolph Bunner, the husband of Elizabeth Matilda Church.

Rudolph had one sister, Anna Bedford Bunner (1783-1864). SHE married John Duer (1782-1858), the son of William Duer (yes THAT infamous one; 1744-1799) and Catherine Alexander (1755-1826). Which means Elizabeth’s sister-in-law was married to 1) the son of her uncle’s most infamous former employee; 2) the great-nephew of William Livingston. (Here’s a link to a hilarious Livingston-Alexander family fight.) John Duer studied law at AH’s office in the late 1790s. 

To finish this up, it’s easy to speculate that Rudolph (born 1779) was named after Lt Col Rudoph Bunner, who died at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778, but I have not found enough about the Bunner family to confirm how closely connected they were. The veteran was in the PA regiment, and young Rudolph was born in GA, and I cannot find out more about his father’s (George Bunner) family. 

[mihrsuri]

AU: Tudor Triad (Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell & Henry VIII are in a closed triad secret marriage from 1536 which results in eight children and a truly golden world)

Inspired by this by @anne-the-quene

Elizabeth: marries Robert Dudley for love (her parents wanted all their children to have choices in their marriages). Mother of five children: Anne (Nan) who inherits her mothers title of Duchess of Pembroke, Henry (Hal) the Duke of Northumberland after his father, Thomas (Thom), Robert (Robbie) & Mary (Marie). 

Thomas: marries Mihrimah Sultan the youngest child of Sultan Suleyman The Magnificent and Hurrem Sultan. It is a love match and their long reign ushers in a truly progressive and pluralistic society by modern standards and a truly golden world. Father of six children: Thomas (Turhan) who becomes King Thomas II of England and Prince Consort of Scotland through his marriage to Queen Joan I (daughter of Mary Queen of Scots), Maryam (who later becomes Empress of Persia), Suleiman, Henry (Harry), Ayse (Alice), Esther

George: marries Madeleine of Navarre, the youngest daughter of Marguerite of Navarre, also for love. Father of five children: Nanette, Marguerite, Thomas (Tomas), Frances and Alienor. 

William: eventually marries his long term mistress Rosamund Hafford by whom he is a father to nine of his fifteen children: James, Margaret, Alice, Andrew, Robert, Samuel, Liam, Amelia and Ruth (he also had six other children by two different women - Henry, Charles, Maddelena, Clarice, Piero and Elena

Margaret: becomes Marguerite of Denmark upon their marriage to King Frederick. Parent to six children: Christian, Elisabeth Marie, William, Henrik, Thomas and Anne Sophia 

Owen: marries Sofia, Infanta of Spain (daughter of Queen Juana I). Father to three daughters: Maria, Juana and Ana

Edmund: marries Soraya a Persian Jew and  daughter of Ebrahim Khan Kalantar, ambassador to England. Father of four: Philippa (Lilibet), Soraya (Sophie), Eliana (Ella) and Aharon (Arthur)

Philippa: marries both her in church spouse Bahram Khanom (the child of a prince) and Nazanin Shoshani - her lady in waiting and the daughter of a Persian Jewish Nobleman. Mother of six children: Alfred, Matilda, Amira (Anne), Taoma (Thomas), Grace and Maryam 

[wutbju]

Barry Richard Johnston, 72, of Taylors, South Carolina passed away January 5, 2022 after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease. A native of Bethesda, Maryland, he was the son of the late Charles and Ruth Shively Johnston. He graduated from Bob Jones University in 1978 and served as a registered nurse in South Carolina, Florida, and Montana. Barry was very passionate about his personal relationship with Jesus Christ, his family, and his career as a pediatric nurse.

Barry was preceded in death by his wife of 22 years, Maggie Green Johnston, a daughter, Cynthia Johnston, and a grandson, AJ Villalpando. He is survived by his 9 children, Patrick (Amber) Johnston of Charlotte, NC, Shannon Johnston of Taylors, SC, Scott (Elizabeth) Johnston of Greer, SC, Matthew (Wilma) Johnston of Santee, CA, Jonathan (Courtney) Johnston of Savannah, GA, Justin Johnston, Precious Johnston, Cathy (Kevin) Bartfield and Stacy (David) Knapp, all of Greensboro, NC. Barry had 22 grandchildren: Charity, Anna, James, Daniel, Grace, Hunter, Tristan, Elijah, Faith, Josiah, Haven, Eva, Charlotte, Jane, and Savannah Johnston, Maryna Villalpando, Christopher Bartfield, Clifford and Kerstin Canaday, Julia, Daphne, and Matilda Knapp and 1 great-grandchild Raury Manson.

Funeral services will be held on Monday, January 10, 2022, at 3:00 pm at First Baptist Church of Lyman, South Carolina. A reception will follow the service in the fellowship hall. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association at www.alz.org.