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  • Lady Godiva - A Devout Christian Woman Fighting Ruinous Taxation With Nudity

    08/09/2023 6:40:50 PM PDT · by Ozguy1945 · 37 replies
    https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/ ^ | 10th August, 2023 Australian time | Ozguy1945
    Lady Godiva and her hubby, Leofric, the Earl Of Mercia were both generous to Christian religious houses. He established a Benedictine monastery in Coventry. She gave gold and silver jewelry to monasteries. One necklace was hung on the neck of the Virgin Mary. The first known Rosary-like string of prayer beads was made by her. That's history. Different times. According to legend, LG was deeply troubled by oppressive taxation of the people by her husband and entreated him again and again to lower taxes but he refused. However she persisted and eventually he gave in on the condition that she...
  • I Rate Emma Lazarus 8 or 9 Out Of Ten As A Poet And 7 Out Of Ten As A Babe. Who Agrees?

    07/22/2023 12:45:58 AM PDT · by Ozguy1945 · 47 replies
    Poet Emma Lazarus was born on July 22nd, 1849 in New York City. She is most famous for the words: “Give me your tired, your poor,/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me ....." She also had some great thoughts about the dangers of anti patriotic crap: "“Let our first care today be the re-establishment of our physical strength, the reconstruction of our national organism, so that in future, where the respect due to us cannot be won by entreaty, it may be commanded, and where...