Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot

Today in 1605, a cabal of Catholic plotters, hoping to turn back the tides of reformation and restore a Catholic monarch to Great Britain, attempted to assassinate the very Protestant King James.

Princess ElizabethTheir plan – if you can dignify it by calling it a plan – was to... (more at http://www.thomryng.com/amateurmonk/gunpowder-treason-and-plot-2017/)



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Camino Photo of the Day: To the Horizon

After we got through the worst of the flooded bits, we spent hours and hours walking through the Meseta, the endless flat. I took about a dozen photos that over the course of four hours that are all pretty much variations on this theme. Even so, there were other flooded portions. At various... (more at http://www.thomryng.com/camino/camino-photo-of-the-day-to-the-horizon/)



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