14th November 2021
Fit like loons and kwines!
I have not given you any Scottish words for a while 😁 So that basically meant ...
How are you, boys and girls?
Okay today is November fourteenth, and day 14 of my November one a day challenge!
And after my article yesterday with 13 I see today is 14. Whenever I see 14 I get reminded of a bit of history. So today will be a bit of fun history. Are you sitting comfortably?
Well like it or not, away we go.
14 or Fourteen reminds me of Louis XIV or Louis the fourteenth. You probably know about Louis XIV without knowing that you do.
He is the monarch with the longest reign, a whopping 72 years, although he did become king at 4. His biggest claim to fame is that he was responsible for building the Palace of Versailles.
The size of that place! It is even bigger than Archie's home 🤣
He even had an American state named in his honour
When Frenchman René-Robert Cavelier claimed the interior of North America by the Mississippi River and its tributaries for his country in 1682, he named it Louisiana in honour of his king Louis XIV. Pretty cool huh!
He was a randy so and so
Louis and his wife Maria Theresa of Spain had six children, but only the eldest kid survived to adulthood. Louis XIV did have a healthy sex life though and fathered more than a dozen illegitimate children with a number of mistresses. To his credit, he did eventually legitimize most of his children born to mistresses in the years following their births.
The Sun King - yes there is a connection in the article to the title
Louis XIV believed himself to be a direct representative of God
It took more than twenty years for King Louis XIII and his wife to have Louis XIV as their first child. They were so happy to have an heir to the throne that they christened the boy Louis-Dieudonné which means “gift of God.” Louis XIV believed any disobedience to his edicts to be sinful, and he adopted the sun as his emblem because France revolved around him like the planets revolved around the sun, and that was how he was known as the Sun King. Talk about being conceited!
Yesterday was a wee maths lesson, today is a wee History lesson, who knows what tomorrow will bring, I certainly don't.
Did you know that a lamp is useless in the daytime but appreciated in the night!
So never judge a book by its covers.
Do you play games? Are you playing the Joystick games on Bitcoin.com . I have not played them yet, although I did buy some JOY tokens. Will try it out once and for all tomorrow. I do play the bchgames from time to time. Do you play them? If so what are your favourite games? Mine is the mine thingy, it is addictive though, so be warned.
My mind has been wandering so have been reading a few articles whilst I am writing this, the joys of tabs on a laptop haha.
Anyways I was reading this one Hayaan mo ko, hanggang isang araw. from the wonderful @MissJo but it is not in English, so out with the translator I went and I get love, and it reminded me of a song from an awesome band ....
Love, Love will tear us apart again one of the best choruses you will hear
Who hasn't been torn apart by love?
And with that, I will love you and leave ...
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Fun crazy content from this mad Scotsman!
And don't forget ;)
Haste ye back.
Honestly i don't know anytjing about his history but i heard his name a lot..
Haven't tried that joystick games yet