I'm Lissa, I'm an American living in the Scottish Countryside. I have a Masters in History and I'm in the middle of a Masters in Archaeology. My specialty is Military History with a focus on memory and loss. I am a royal watcher, an avid reader and a lover of animals. I have two dogs and two cats who control my life. My favorite authors include Bernard Cornwell, J. L. Bourne, Eugene Sledge and Lee Child. My current top T.V shows are Justified, The Crown, The Gilmore Girls, The Pacific, MASH and Generation Kill. Books that I will love until I die are, The Things They Carried, We Were Soldiers Once, Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix, Gone With the Wind, The Starbuck Chronicals, Battle Flag and Johnny Got His Gun. Movies I can watch over and over again are, MASH, Saving Private Ryan, Steel Magnolias, Gone With the Wind, all the Indiana Jones films, The Godfather, A Little Princess and The Graduate. Please come talk to me about History, Literature, Film, Television, Royalty, Animals and anything else you might fancy.
A Palace Aide just resigned for racist remarks during a reception. And Meghan haters really want us to believe that this didn't take place when she was there? That Meghan was the problem? It seems that Harry saying it was the institution is correct. I know Harry and Meghan couldn't care less about vindication but they are proving their story right without doing anything.
Robert MacGregor's (Rob Roy) Grave, Lochearnhead, Scotland.
Robert MacGregor was a notorious outlaw who was immortalised as a Scottish Folk Hero by Sir Walter Scott in Rob Roy. He was known as a Scottish Robin Hood. This grave monument has traditional Scottish motifs of Celtic symbols including knots.
This Cairn memorialises the death of Willie MacRae a Scottish Politician, who was found in his wrecked car with a gunshot to the head in 1985. He was a WWII veteran and a supporter of independence movements including the bid for Scottish Independence. His death was ruled as undetermined and remains a mystery today. The Cairn is a traditional Scottish monument to death meaning that it was meant to be a reference to Willie MacRae's contribution to Scotland. The Cairn remains a popular location for tourists and Independence supporters alike.
I’ve been told there’s always been one man they could count on. Led them into the Bois Jacques, held them together when they had the crap shelled out of them in the woods. Every day, he kept their spirits up, kept the men focused, gave ‘em direction… all the things a good combat leader does. You don’t have any idea who I’m talking about, do you? Hell, it was you, First Sergeant.
The truth is… I don’t know. If you can trust Boyd to have your back, but, while he has tried to kill me, and I have shot him, and imprisoned him, and I wouldn’t be surprised if our paths again crossed in such a manner, he has had my back on two occasions.
type·cast /ˈtīpˌkast/ verb
assign (an actor or actress) repeatedly to the same type of role, as a result of the appropriateness of their appearance or previous success in such roles.
Cast of Inscribed Memorial Stone with Roman Latin and Ogham (500 to 600CE), Buckland Monachorum, Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre, Princetown, Dartmoor.
Pyramid-shaped mound holding 30 corpses may be world's oldest war monument
A huge burial mound holding the corpses of at least 30 warriors in Syria could be the oldest war memorial ever discovered, dating back at least 4,300 years at the now submerged site of Tell Banat, said a team of archaeologists.
The memorial is also the first example of a particular type of monument described in ancient inscriptions from Mesopotamia in which the bodies of either enemies or local battle dead are piled up to form a highly organized structure.
This discovery also shows “that ancient people honored those killed in battle, just as we do,” Anne Porter, a professor of ancient Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, said in a statement. “We do not know whether they were the victors or the losers of that battle. We do know that they [the people from Tell Banat] took the bodies of the dead from some other place, perhaps long after the event, and interred them in a huge mound that was visible for miles around,” Porter said in the statement. Read more.