The Original Gay Porn Community - Free Gay Movies and Photos, Gay Porn Site Reviews and Adult Gay Forums

  • Welcome To Just Us Boys - The World's Largest Gay Message Board Community

    In order to comply with recent US Supreme Court rulings regarding adult content, we will be making changes in the future to require that you log into your account to view adult content on the site.
    If you do not have an account, please register.
    REGISTER HERE - 100% FREE / We Will Never Sell Your Info

    To register, turn off your VPN; you can re-enable the VPN after registration. You must maintain an active email address on your account: disposable email addresses cannot be used to register.

  • Hi Guest - Did you know?
    Hot Topics is a Safe for Work (SFW) forum.

Today in history

24 July 1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and be replaced by her one-year-old son King James VI (later King James I of England).

320px-Fran%C3%A7ois_Clouet_-_Mary%2C_Queen_of_Scots_%281542-87%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots
 
^
Thanks for the link. I just finished reading about Charlotte and her daughter--difficult, mediocre and inestimable women and their unhappy lives, women we would never bother to be interested in were it not for the accident of their royal births, marriages and prominent relatives. I then had the shuddering realization that Meghan Markle, another difficult, mediocre and inestimable woman, will be similarly chronicled in the future...
 
1897: Pope Leo XIII issues the encyclical Militantis Ecclesiae, which describes Protestantism as the "Lutheran rebellion, whose evil virus goes wandering about in almost all nations"
 
OMG, yet another Anglocentric thread.


1274 - Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.

- - - Updated - - -

1830 – Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.

1869 – Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
 
100 years ago today




Alexander Graham Bell dies at age 75
he improved the already in Italy and Germany invented "Telephon" and built a telephone net in the USA, founder of AT&T.



​
 
1100: William the Conqueror's son and successor Rufus, a wicked king who delighted in torture, seizing church property, and blasphemy, is mysteriously killed while hunting by an arrow that flew out of nowhere. No one mourned, and England took his eternal damnation for granted.
 
I probably shouldn't mention this; but, in 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain to find a Western sea route to India - along the way, he ran into the continents of North and South America, or rather some of their outling islands
 
smokeshadow said:
I probably shouldn't mention this; but, in 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain to find a Western sea route to India - along the way, he ran into the continents of North and South America, or rather some of their outling islands
Click to expand...

Heh -- I had mine written out; I'm going to add it here anyway as it has a different emphasis:

1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain for the "Indies." Though the explorer was in part driven by a quest for gold and glory, he also saw himself as a missionary. He thought, if there were a shortcut to the East by sea, missionaries could be sent there faster, thus enabling Christians to meet the provision for world evangelization before the Lord could return. This religious aspect played a part in persuading the Catholic monarchs to fund the expedition. Ironically, they didn't have enough money, but an extremely wealthy Jew who wanted out of Spain due to the shenanigans of the Inquisition made a deal: he and his family could take all their movable possessions and leave the country in safety in return for him paying for Columbus' venture. The deal included Columbus taking some of the benefactor's relatives on the voyage, saving them as well from the Inquisition. These were merchants who had been to India and China and thus in Columbus' eyes would have been useful even if not pressed on him.

Just BTW, concerning his ancestry--

One of the strongest indications of his Portuguese ancestry is his naming of Cuba, the only other place with that name is in Portugal, and many of the place names in and around Cuba (the island in the Caribbean) have the same names as places close to Cuba (Portugal). The supposition is that it’s his birthplace - in the event you’re wondering, Cuba (Portugal) is located here:

main-qimg-caadbbab82320da7da4011df4ff801e1-pjlq


Yes, you’ve never heard of the place, and in 1492, no one else had, either. That’s why it’s suspected as his birthplace.
Click to expand...

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Christopher-Columbus-have-a-hard-time-to-find-funding-for-his-voyage/answer/Barry-Weir-3

A Portuguese heritage would help explain why apparently the Portuguese king was informed about the results of the voyage before his Spanish sponsors.
 
Last edited:
Long gone down the river of no return... MM died 60 years ago today


still unforgotten...

​
 
^ I so loved how she appeared in that picture... shame it wasn't finished, and so revolting she (and Cukor, and all the rest) got through all that hell behind that splendorous appearance. Hollywood, Hollywood!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top