Astronomy: Get up and out in the wee hours before dawn for the next few days to watch the Delta Aquarids. EarthSky says that while it favors the southern latitudes, those in the north may see 15-20 per hour
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The Widow is in a rather dark mood today.
Thomas Cromwell, who (among
other things) engineered the dissolution of the monasteries and destruction of
the shrines during Henry VIII’s government takeover of the Church in England,
and
Maximilien (Francois Marie Isidore
de) Robespierre who (among other things) engineered the destruction of the ruling
powers during the Jacobin takeover of the government of France,
went to their government-sanctioned
Rewards today in the same way…. sort of.
Cromwell ‘so patiently suffered the stroke of the axe by a ragged and
butcherly miser which very ungoodly performed the office’ in 1540, while
Robespierre received the much quicker and cleaner kiss of Madame Guillotine in
1794, but the end result was the same – no heads.
Well, they created their
destroyers, and caused the destruction of thousands in their own time and
millions afterward, but requiescat in pace
anyway.
Suitable for today would be
a cocktail known as HEADLESS HORSEMAN.
Into a 12 oz. Tom Collins
glass, put 2 ounces of vodka and 3 dashes of bitters. Add several cubes of ice, fill with dry ginger ale and
stir. Decorate with an orange
slice.
Imbibe carefully or you’ll probably
wish you were headless.
