Saturday, March 09, 2013
341 OBJECTS
14 OL POCKETKNIVES- $43
Had he lived, he’d be up in his eighties, but he didn’t so he’s now pushing up daisies. Were it not for one minor detail, I’d tell you he died peacefully in his own bed surrounded by family who sobbed as they hugged one another and spoke in hushed tones about his full and productive life, the more detached consoling the weaker members of the family. It is a common way of coping with the loss of a husband, father, grandfather and even a great-grandfather.
We would all feel good about a story such as that, but that “one minor detail” preventing me from telling of such a touching moment is the fact that I have no idea where I acquired all these knives. All I know, because of a note I dropped inside the box, is that they were in the “top drawer of dresser, with socks.” 
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antequeraFERDINAND I (1379-1416)- king of aragon + sicily, surnames the just, the younger son of john I, of castile + leonora of aragon. on the death of his older brother henry III in 1406, he refused the crown of castile, which the nobles had offered, but in accordance w/ his brothers will undertook the office of regent during the minority of his nephew john II. in this capacity he distinguished himself by his victories over the moors by land & sea. he took the title 'de antequera' on the surrender of that fortress after a siege of 5 months. on the death of his maternal uncle,
king martin of aragon + sicily, is claim to to the throne, tho not derived from laws of decent, were taken up + keenly pressed by a powerful party in the state. the question of succession was ultimately referred to a comitee of 9 judges equally representing catalonia, valencia, + aragon, + the result was his election in 1412. after he had defeated count jayme of urgel, the last + most formidable of his rivals, he was crowned. from 1378, europe had been scandalized by the spectacle of the PAPAL schism; + since 1410 3 rival popes had been claiming the obedience of the faithful. at the council of constance in 141, ferd was a prominent supporter of the spaniard, Benedict XIII(peter d cuna(, who had been deposed at pisa in 1408, the deposition of john XXIII, + the abdication of gregory XII in 1415, having paved the way for peace, ferd consented to be present at the meeting of sigisemund w/ the ambassadors of france, castile, + navarre, + after long temporizing he ultimately agreed for unity of the church to withdraw from luna. he died the next yr, succeeded by his son alphonso V, the conquerer of naples
