Tag: renaissance
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October 18, 2008 09:01 PM EDT --
While on vacation myself and my daughter and her family went to the 2008 Renaissance Festival in Michigan. http://michrenfest.com/ We had a blast! We watched a full contact armored . . .
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April 25, 2009 04:50 PM EDT --
If you have a soft spot in your heart for the Renaissance era, where knights protected kingdoms and corset wearing maidens served ale to the hard working peasants, the Bay Area Renaissance Festival is . . .
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May 10, 2009 12:39 PM EDT --
Yesterday we went to the most enjoyable wedding I've been to in a long time. It was my friend Spitty's, and I wasn't the officiant, so I could just enjoy it:)
Spitty's actual name is . . .
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November 27, 2007 03:11 AM EST --
47 Minutes takes great pride tonight in reporting on the "event of the day", the birthday celebration of a self-proclaimed turkey. (Due to budgetary issues, we could not afford the full 60 . . .
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February 08, 2007 11:20 AM EST --
This is just something tongue-in-cheek I was once writing about the different ways things can be historically incorrect at Renaissance fairs or historical reenactments. My wife and I started out participating . . .
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March 30, 2008 09:47 PM EDT --
Just a reprint of something I wrote for the reenactors' newsletter Smoke & Fire News .
Most of us have seen that game with all the triangles printed on the back of checker boards, but few . . .
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September 11, 2009 11:38 AM EDT --
On Saturday the 5th, I went to the NY Renaissance Faire. I love it there; I was an employee for a few years, so the place still feels like home to me. I took countless naps in the out-of-the-way grassy . . .
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July 23, 2007 01:21 PM EDT --
The Pennslyvania Renaissance faire in at the Mount Hope winery opens on August 11 this year.
I'll be there on Sunday the 12th. Anyone from gather going to join me there?
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May 08, 2009 06:33 AM EDT --
author: Sarah Dunant
If the main character in this book and the one in I, Mona Lisa (reviewed the other day) were allowed to leave the house and have friends they'd either be the best of . . .
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April 17, 2007 02:56 AM EDT --
I have been doing a lot of browsing around eBay lately. There are quite a few things I am looking for. One, I can no longer work my fingers well enough without pain to make my own RenFest garb and Sweden's . . .
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August 20, 2008 11:49 PM EDT --
This is my third (and final!) photo essay from the Renaissance Faire. My previous essays included two of the shows we watched (Birds of Prey and Dextre Tripp) and so this photo essay will include . . .
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September 20, 2008 12:18 PM EDT --
oh, we had so much fun yesterday! we went to the michigan renaissance festival - one of the nation's oldest, at 30 years and counting! it is spread over 17 acres, and i was really glad that they had . . .
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August 11, 2007 09:41 PM EDT --
Well, What a beautiful day! Teara, her parents and I spent the day at the Ren-Faire in Sterling, New York. Sunny and 80 non-humid degrees spent just off Lake Ontario. We took . . .
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October 11, 2007 07:01 AM EDT --
There is a great deal of misunderstanding about Islam in western nations. Islam is not an isolated religious phenomenon, but is closely and historically related to Christianity. Islam succeeded . . .
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June 05, 2008 03:38 PM EDT --
© David Wainland 2008
Let me see. The homework for yesterday's memoir class was to pick one word that describes me best. Well that is not as easy as you might think since there . . .
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November 12, 2008 10:32 AM EST --
New to wearing a kilt? -Start watching women in short skirts (-well more than you already do...) to study how they move while sitting down to avoid exposing themselves. You can learn some tips by following . . .
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December 02, 2007 02:46 PM EST --
Steve Reich
The New England Conservatory just presented a set of four concerts of the music of Steve Reich. It was a fabulous reminder of the innovative and richly rewarding music of one of America's . . .
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August 17, 2008 10:33 AM EDT --
I regret to pass along the news that there will be no renaissance fair in Southern Illinois this fall.
The Southern Illinois Renaissance Fair in Murphsryboro was not held last year and word eventually . . .
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September 25, 2009 05:35 AM EDT --
Thought a Renaissance Fair would be fun,
Dressed up and dragged yeti,
Everything was fake; including the gun.
The Ho-ho inhalers were petty,
Sorry if I don't fit in,
Sorry if I'm not one of . . .
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May 09, 2009 07:25 AM EDT --
author: Mary Hoffman
This one is young adult - there's fantasy, alternative reality and travel between "our" world and the other one.
A young man is dying of brain cancer here. . . .
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