Posts in category Q45: Do you know your history?

The Great Bed of Ware

April 11, 2012 Written by Earth_Emperor

The historic carved oak Great Bed of Ware has completed its move from the Victoria and Albert museum in South Kensington to take pride of place for a year at the tiny Ware museum. An official display at the museum will be officially opened on 14 April by Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces. The [...]

I Am Your Queen

February 2, 2011 Written by Earth_Emperor

“Let me pass, I am your Queen”, are words allegedly spoken in 1821 by Caroline of Brunswick as she attempted to enter Westminster Hall at the coronation of her estranged husband King George IV. There’s a Queen Caroline in my tale as an allegory of how humanity behaves towards Mother Nature. Curiously, at [...]

King George’s Albatrosses

September 4, 2009 Written by Earth_Emperor

Researchers writing in ‘Polar Biology’ report a small group of light-mantled sooty albatrosses have chosen to nest on King George’s Island, one of the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica. The colony is the southern-most breeding location ever recorded for any albatross species (by 1,500km) – previously [...]

Posts in category Q45: Do you know your history?

The Great Bed of Ware

I Am Your Queen

King George’s Albatrosses

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