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head injuries

Armoured knights and head injuries….

Jan 24, 2023

anniversaries, battles, culture

boxing, football, France, head injuries, Henri II, Henry VIII, jousting, rugby, Sir John Holland, Sir Reginald de Roye, sport

With all the recent publicity and very real worry over the head injuries that are part and parcel of physical sports such as boxing, football and rugby, I’ve been prompted to consider similar injuries that must have happened in earlier periods of our history, when activities such as tourneying were very much the…
JFK Parallels

May 13, 2016

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accession controversy, Addison’s Disease, bigamy, brothers, C.J.Lock, Edward IV, Edward V, head injuries, Kennedy brothers, military record, mystery, pre-contract, Richard III, roses, scoliosis, short life, treachery, violent death, wounds

A Ricardian author, C J Lock, has long been interested in John F Kennedy and has kindly given permission to reproduce her post about the parallels between JFK and Richard III. “On the anniversary of the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy , it struck me that there are many similarities between two of my personal…