Thursday, March 06, 2008
RANDOM EB POST
CASTOR OIL- from palma christi plant from the east indies. used for lighting in india as well as domestic and medical. slight odor and highly nauseus and disagreeable taste. the taste a great impediment to its use.
CASTRO, Ines De.- b 1325-1355. called collode garza-heron's neck. born the bastard w/2 brothers, father Don Pedro Fernandez de Castro and mother noble portuguese lady Dona Aldonsa Soares de Villadares. educated at semi oriental courtof juan manuel, duke of penafiel, grew up w/ duke's daughter, constanca, who was her cousin.after refused several crowned heads in marriage, constance persuaded to marry infante dom pedro, so of alphonso, king of portugal. 1341, the 2 girls left P and the young infante and her cousin went to lisbon, where dom pedro conceived a luckless and furious passion for ines.
morganic marriages unlikely, but in 1345, constanca died in childbirth and pedro, undisturbed with his mistress, ines, til 1354, and married her, but no documents to prove it. the king, furious about this situation, had ines satbbed to death.
for this, pedro starts war. which he wins in 57. has ines dug up and her body crowned queen(maybe true).
CAT- name applied in widest sense to all flines, but mainly smaller ones. origin of domestic cat obscure, but sanskrit from 2000 and more ancient writings and cat mummies. blah blah blah breeds blah blah blahsacred to isis or the moon. witchcraft and black cats.
