This blog has become a sort of personal-cum-public diary. As for its contents, some are meant for me and my friends and relatives; others are for the public. This blog will have only positive, ennobling, elevating, encouraging and uplifting thoughts/ideas/materials. Whoever visits should feel happy and should be able to pick up some good ideas/thoughts/links. In short, "NOTHING NEGATIVE" is my motto.(Grateful thanks to Jon Sullivan and Public-Domain-Photos.com for the background photo)
Happy New Year 2021
WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY, HEALTHY,
PROSPEROUS AND PURPOSEFUL
NEW YEAR 2020
A
rare chance to see comedian and actor Rowan Atkinson in the hot seat talking to
Parkinson about filming that famous last scene in Blackadder and being the
international face of Mr Bean. Free video clip from the popular british talk
show 'Parkinson'.
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Grateful thanks to ROWAN ATKINSON, PARKINSON, BBC
STUDIOS and YouTube.
Why
is this old piece of parchment considered to be such a powerful symbol of our
rights and freedoms? Narrated by Monty Python’s Terry Jones, this animation
takes you back to medieval times, when England under the reign of Bad King
John. It asks why Magna Carta was originally created and what it meant to those
living in the 13thcentury.
Grateful
thanks to THE BRITISH LIBRARY and YouTube.
Historically. Until recently, the only way a woman could survive and sustain herself was through marriage. The concept of having a job, owning a property, having legal rights is a very recent concept. Unmarried ladies stayed with their parents and considered themselves a "burden", some were going to live with relatives who could afford to feed and hold them and others were forced to confinement in convents.
Marriage for love was a topic of fiction and poetry, but it was not a reality until the industrial revolution, when women could work and keep, so that they could finally be free to choose their husband.
However, middle and upper class women did not have that right to marry for love until the th century.