The Historical Vagabond
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A vagabond sharing my historical wanderings online.
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This year I'm looking into the fun holiday drinks of Christmas. However, the Historical Vagabond doesn't travel the easy, well-trodden path. Instead, I found a few regional variants of these classic drinks, along with some totally unique Christmas beverages that should please the crowd.
Festive Christmas Drinks From Around The World
This year I'm looking into the fun holiday drinks of Christmas. However, the Historical Vagabond doesn't travel the easy, well-trodden path. Instead, I found a few regional variants of these classic drinks, along with some totally unique Christmas beverages that should please the crowd.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
This year I'm looking into the fun holiday drinks of Christmas. However, the Historical Vagabond doesn't travel the easy, well-trodden path. Instead, I found a few regional variants of these classic drinks, along with some totally unique Christmas beverages that should please the crowd.
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If you are in need of a Writer, Historian, Seafood Expert, Fisheries Advocate, Sicilian-American Ethnographer, Public Speaker, or a world-class Researcher, please contact me. I bring much more to the table than a resume can reveal.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you are in need of a Writer, Historian, Seafood Expert, Fisheries Advocate, Sicilian-American Ethnographer, Public Speaker, or a world-class Researcher, please contact me. I bring much more to the table than a resume can reveal.
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This year I'm looking into the fun holiday drinks of Christmas. However, the Historical Vagabond doesn't travel the easy, well-trodden path. Instead, I found a few regional variants of these classic drinks, along with some totally unique Christmas beverages that should please the crowd.
Festive Christmas Drinks From Around The World
This year I'm looking into the fun holiday drinks of Christmas. However, the Historical Vagabond doesn't travel the easy, well-trodden path. Instead, I found a few regional variants of these classic drinks, along with some totally unique Christmas beverages that should please the crowd.
historicalvagabond.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
This year I'm looking into the fun holiday drinks of Christmas. However, the Historical Vagabond doesn't travel the easy, well-trodden path. Instead, I found a few regional variants of these classic drinks, along with some totally unique Christmas beverages that should please the crowd.
The Curious Case of The Hungry Man of Essex
Samuel Morse was an eccentric shipwright with a rare medical condition that made him famous as The Hungry Man of Essex.
Samuel Morse was an eccentric shipwright with a rare medical condition that made him famous as The Hungry Man of Essex.
The Curious Case of The Hungry Man of Essex
Samuel Morse was an eccentric shipwright with a rare medical condition that made him famous as The Hungry Man of Essex.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The Curious Case of The Hungry Man of Essex
Samuel Morse was an eccentric shipwright with a rare medical condition that made him famous as The Hungry Man of Essex.
Samuel Morse was an eccentric shipwright with a rare medical condition that made him famous as The Hungry Man of Essex.
If you are in need of a Writer, Historian, Seafood Expert, Fisheries Advocate, Sicilian-American Ethnographer, Public Speaker, or a world-class Researcher, please contact me. I bring much more to the table than a resume can reveal.
#opentowork
#freelancewriter
#needajob
#opentowork
#freelancewriter
#needajob
October 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you are in need of a Writer, Historian, Seafood Expert, Fisheries Advocate, Sicilian-American Ethnographer, Public Speaker, or a world-class Researcher, please contact me. I bring much more to the table than a resume can reveal.
#opentowork
#freelancewriter
#needajob
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#freelancewriter
#needajob
The Sicilian people have endured waves of invaders going back thousands of years.With this turbulent history, why wouldn't the common people have a secret system for defending themselves? If any of Europe's peasant cultures had a clandestine fighting style, it would be the Sicilians.
Bastone Siciliano: The Art of Sicilian Stick Fighting
Sicilian-Americans treasure the customs and traditions that have been preserved from their ancestral homeland. However, there is quite a lot that was forgotten. One tradition I wish trickled down to my childhood was the Sicilian system of stick fighting known as Bastone Siciliano.
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October 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
The Sicilian people have endured waves of invaders going back thousands of years.With this turbulent history, why wouldn't the common people have a secret system for defending themselves? If any of Europe's peasant cultures had a clandestine fighting style, it would be the Sicilians.
Madrid's Monasterio de Las Descalzas Reales was once the monastery of Habsburg princesses and high-born daughters of European nobility: A nunnery for the rich and famous.
Las Descalzas Reales: Madrid’s Monastery of the Rich and Famous
The Monasterio of Las Descalzas Reales was once the monastery of princesses and the high-born daughters of European nobility, a nunnery for the rich and famous.
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September 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Madrid's Monasterio de Las Descalzas Reales was once the monastery of Habsburg princesses and high-born daughters of European nobility: A nunnery for the rich and famous.
Medieval leper hospital burials found in Lübeck – The History Blog sci4us.com/74163-2/
Medieval leper hospital burials found in Lübeck – The History Blog - Sci4Us.Com
Graves connected to a medieval leprosarium have been discovered in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. A human bone was encountered last week during construction of a new “bicycle superhighway” on Ra...
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September 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Medieval leper hospital burials found in Lübeck – The History Blog sci4us.com/74163-2/
Katwijk: The Last Coffee Plantation of Suriname
The historical connection between Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Suriname centers on the 19th-century trade involving plantations and the slave economy. While plantations have transformed into resorts and museums, the legacy of slavery persists.…
The historical connection between Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Suriname centers on the 19th-century trade involving plantations and the slave economy. While plantations have transformed into resorts and museums, the legacy of slavery persists.…
Katwijk: The Last Coffee Plantation of Suriname
The historical connection between Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Suriname centers on the 19th-century trade involving plantations and the slave economy. While plantations have transformed into resorts and museums, the legacy of slavery persists. Today, Katwijk Plantation remains the last active coffee producer, reflecting Suriname's complex past and evolving landscape.
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September 7, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Katwijk: The Last Coffee Plantation of Suriname
The historical connection between Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Suriname centers on the 19th-century trade involving plantations and the slave economy. While plantations have transformed into resorts and museums, the legacy of slavery persists.…
The historical connection between Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Suriname centers on the 19th-century trade involving plantations and the slave economy. While plantations have transformed into resorts and museums, the legacy of slavery persists.…
Mug Up with the Schooner Captains: August 28 at 3PM
Join us on the Maritime Gloucester pier for a Gloucester Schooner Festival Mug Up. Meet with Historian Justin Demetri and local and visiting Schooner Captains to chat all about Schooner Festival and its historic significance.
Join us on the Maritime Gloucester pier for a Gloucester Schooner Festival Mug Up. Meet with Historian Justin Demetri and local and visiting Schooner Captains to chat all about Schooner Festival and its historic significance.
Mug Up with the Schooner Captains: August 28 at 3PM
Join us on the Maritime Gloucester pier for a Gloucester Schooner Festival Mug Up. Meet with Historian Justin Demetri and local and visiting Schooner Captains to chat all about Schooner Festival and its historic significance.
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August 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Mug Up with the Schooner Captains: August 28 at 3PM
Join us on the Maritime Gloucester pier for a Gloucester Schooner Festival Mug Up. Meet with Historian Justin Demetri and local and visiting Schooner Captains to chat all about Schooner Festival and its historic significance.
Join us on the Maritime Gloucester pier for a Gloucester Schooner Festival Mug Up. Meet with Historian Justin Demetri and local and visiting Schooner Captains to chat all about Schooner Festival and its historic significance.
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The Historical Vagabond
I consider myself a vagabond wandering along the paths of history. This new blog will share my historical wanderings, partly inspired by my actual wanderings and studies. It has been difficult making
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August 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Santa Maria della Spina is a tiny, compact jewel box adorned with numerous beautiful statues and carvings. Part of its beauty is the amount of adornment on such a small building. The number and scale of the carvings and statues would be impressive on a much larger church.
A Jewel Box Fit For A Thorn: Pisa’s Santa Maria della Spina
Pisa's Santa Maria della Spina, right along the banks of the Arno, is a compact jewel box of Gothic architecture, adorned with numerous beautiful statues and carvings.
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August 3, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Santa Maria della Spina is a tiny, compact jewel box adorned with numerous beautiful statues and carvings. Part of its beauty is the amount of adornment on such a small building. The number and scale of the carvings and statues would be impressive on a much larger church.
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July 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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In the winter of 2009, I stepped into Nam Kee, one of the best, and best known Chinese restaurants in Amsterdam. Food was pretty good too.
Nam Kee: The Biggest Little Chinese Restaurant in Amsterdam
I stepped into Nam Kee, one of the best, and best known Chinese restaurant in Amsterdam. Food was pretty good too.
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July 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
In the winter of 2009, I stepped into Nam Kee, one of the best, and best known Chinese restaurants in Amsterdam. Food was pretty good too.
WWI HD Colorization — Flying over the Western Front Battlefields, 1919 youtu.be/B1uE7YFqfL4?... via
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WWI HD Colorization — Flying over the Western Front Battlefields, 1919
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July 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Learn the story of a traditional Sicilian folk song that musicologist Alan Lomax once said was “as wide, high and lonely as the Sicilian sky”.
The Sulfur Miner's Song: Tears of Sicily's Past historicalvagabond.com/2024/09/02/t...
The Sulfur Miner's Song: Tears of Sicily's Past historicalvagabond.com/2024/09/02/t...
The Sulfur Miner’s Song: Tears of Sicily’s Past
This is the story behind Surfarara. A Sicilian folk song that musicologist Alan Lomax said was “as wide, high and lonely as the Sicilian sky”.
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June 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Learn the story of a traditional Sicilian folk song that musicologist Alan Lomax once said was “as wide, high and lonely as the Sicilian sky”.
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The Sulfur Miner's Song: Tears of Sicily's Past historicalvagabond.com/2024/09/02/t...
This inescapable prison was Rome's "Death Row" regardless if you were an enemy of the Republic, a defeated king or Christian saint.
Rome’s Mamertine Prison: Death Row for Kings and Saints
The Mamertine Prison in Rome has a history going back to the early Roman Kings. If you made it to Rome's most wanted list, chances are you ended up in here.
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June 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
This inescapable prison was Rome's "Death Row" regardless if you were an enemy of the Republic, a defeated king or Christian saint.
Sicilian folk music meets improvisational Jazz. My favorite version of the lament of the sulfur miners: Surfarara
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Sicilian Jazz Project in Modica playing The Sulphur Miner "Surfarara"
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May 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Sicilian folk music meets improvisational Jazz. My favorite version of the lament of the sulfur miners: Surfarara
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Sicily's Mt. Etna is home to the largest and oldest sweet chestnut trees in the world. #100HorseChestnut #CastagnodellaNave #CastagnodeiCentoCavalli #GiantTrees
Ancient Sentinels: Sicily’s Legendary Chestnut Trees
On the approaches to Mt. Etna are the largest and oldest chestnut trees in the world.
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May 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Sicily's Mt. Etna is home to the largest and oldest sweet chestnut trees in the world. #100HorseChestnut #CastagnodellaNave #CastagnodeiCentoCavalli #GiantTrees
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Wild West in the Wild East: Buffalo Bill Comes to Gloucester
Buffalo Bill Cody brought his version of the Wild West to the Wild East of Gloucester, Massachusetts on at least eight occasions.
Buffalo Bill Cody brought his version of the Wild West to the Wild East of Gloucester, Massachusetts on at least eight occasions.
Wild West in the Wild East: Buffalo Bill Comes to Gloucester
Buffalo Bill Cody brought his version of the Wild West to the Wild East of Gloucester, Massachusetts on at least eight occasions.
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April 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Wild West in the Wild East: Buffalo Bill Comes to Gloucester
Buffalo Bill Cody brought his version of the Wild West to the Wild East of Gloucester, Massachusetts on at least eight occasions.
Buffalo Bill Cody brought his version of the Wild West to the Wild East of Gloucester, Massachusetts on at least eight occasions.
Wow, apparetnly my old Geocities page from 2003 still exists as an Internet ghost!
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April 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Wow, apparetnly my old Geocities page from 2003 still exists as an Internet ghost!
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Having a lot of fun researching an unlucky circus that ran for one tragic season in 1856. Stay tuned.
#oldtimefun #peopledieatthecircus #americancircushistory #bigtophistory
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April 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Having a lot of fun researching an unlucky circus that ran for one tragic season in 1856. Stay tuned.
#oldtimefun #peopledieatthecircus #americancircushistory #bigtophistory
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Mysterious ancient Malta gets even more mysterious!
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News - Humans Arrived in Malta Earlier Than Expected - Archaeology Magazine
LATNIJA, MALTA—According to a statement released by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, researchers have […]
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April 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Mysterious ancient Malta gets even more mysterious!
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Is the dire wolf back from the dead? Not exactly | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Is the dire wolf back from the dead? Not exactly
Genetically edited gray wolf pups became instant media darlings—and drew hefty skepticism from scientists
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April 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Wild West in the Wild East: Buffalo Bill Comes to Gloucester
Buffalo Bill Cody brought his version of the Wild West to the Wild East of Gloucester, Massachusetts on at least eight occasions.
Buffalo Bill Cody brought his version of the Wild West to the Wild East of Gloucester, Massachusetts on at least eight occasions.
Wild West in the Wild East: Buffalo Bill Comes to Gloucester
Buffalo Bill Cody brought his version of the Wild West to the Wild East of Gloucester, Massachusetts on at least eight occasions.
historicalvagabond.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Wild West in the Wild East: Buffalo Bill Comes to Gloucester
Buffalo Bill Cody brought his version of the Wild West to the Wild East of Gloucester, Massachusetts on at least eight occasions.
Buffalo Bill Cody brought his version of the Wild West to the Wild East of Gloucester, Massachusetts on at least eight occasions.