Research The Facts Of History - In Historical Novels and Historical Films

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Most of our historical fiction is just that - fiction.

Even on The History Channel, so much so-called history is factually inaccurate, that I suggest that everyone do what I do - research the subjects and find out the real truth. It makes these histories more enjoyable and we should all teach kids to research facts.

It will make them learn to think and not to just take what they hear and see without a grain of salt.

The old adage to believe half of what you see and none of what you hear is a good byword for life - especially in historical movies !

For instance, in the film, "The Other Boleyn Girl", they made what were really two girls put forth as concubines by their family, as was common in those days, into rivals, bitches, and they reversed many facts about them.

Here are some facts:

Facts on The Boleyn Girls:

MARY WAS OLDER THAN ANNE BOLEYN

MARY DIED BEFORE ANNE

LITTLE ELIZABETH WAS RAISED AT COURT

So, while we can admire the way writers take the truth and twist it into their own tales, let's all learn the truth by researching the facts in everything. 

It's Only Valentine's Now, So Why Am I Already Having Spring Fever ?

It's in the cosmic atmosphere.

I can just feel it.

Spring is on the way !

Even when, as I usually do, living in the tropics or in the sub-tropics at least, a type of Winter exists, but it's really more than whether the weather has behaved well or not, more than the cold factor - it's our planetary connection to the seasons, to the turning of our own orb, to the placement of the moon - at night, now, I can hardly sleep - the full moon has been reflected in my pool outside, and the double glow of moon and mirror has been so intense, plus the countless reflections of the sea, just outside - I sleep with the curtains drawn - I must know the night sky and the stars are in view - has made the most beauteous flourescent violet light !

So, just lying around and sighing, like some Romantic poet, has been my reaction of late, to the impossibly gorgeous days, with butterflies flitting around each other in circles, couples, in love, talking intimately, no doubt, about how wonderful life is, and newborn leaves coming in, and night-blooming jasmine spreading its' irrepressable charms through a perfume that lures us outside just to breathe it in heady draughts ! What must it do to the moths ?

Night and day, the spells cast by the early Spring is almost too much to bear !

Errands ? Put 'em off!

Chores ? For bores !

Just lying in the clover, gazing up at fleecy clouds is enough - for now.

Soon, the reckless, tumbling tumult of full Springtime will arrive, and even at a far off coast, I'll be thinking of the roar of mountain streams, rushing down through valleys and meadows of tender wildflowers, strewn in enormous blankets, along Colorado's hillsides, of buttercups emerging in wild fields all over the South, of Nesturtiums covering my homeland of California.

I miss it all. Does God use his power like I would ? Does He walk, unnoticed, among each and every country, enjoying His every flower - every field - every tree in blossom ?

Travel is the best we'll ever do. Traveling, and remembering.

Appreciate every day !

As my eldest Brother has reminded me - count the handsful of seasons you have had, and will have, if you're lucky. 

They're very few.

Enjoy this one !

Ocean Blog

I'm a music artist who loves to endorse healthy, eco magazines like this one where I'm on the cover:

I'm also delighted to be instrumental in showing people how to get healthy by going vegan!

An interview with Ocean is featured on Famousveggie.com in their Celeb Interviews section, and here is a link - Ocean on FamousVeggie

I love to contribute my talents in order to help - I think it's the essence of happiness, and I adore being healthy, being vegan, and being compassionate.

I'm posting here since I already have a quasi-political blog I was asked to keep at Ecoize.com, named Ocean's Ocean, and I also do the Mermaid Blog, which is a fantasy tale ( and connected to an epic trilogy I have written called The Mers ), and this one is various musings, ideas, moods, and so on, so it's fun !

I like to think of ideas to help people, as I do on sites where I contribute articles on everything from living eco to helping animals (including us), vegan recipes, my own travel adventures, on being a musician, being a fan of classic films, being in love with history, into anthropology and other cultures, art, design, illustration, stories, and writing, among many other interests.

How do I find the time to follow so many interests, I ask myself. And I know that only because I'm vegan do I have such energy!

I don't do just one thing ever - for instance, I have two books I'm writing now at the same time! 

Also I am doing a series of paintings on a certain theme for a show.

And, of course, I do my music very often - meaning I produce tunes I write, and/or sing somewhere.

I have a real interest in making life better for everyone (of all species),  and every place, than it would have been if I had not been born.

Other Ocean Magazine Features, some Ocean Interviews etc. :

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Sites I Love

Among the slideshow pix below are some logos I've created for sites I love and endorse, and some I contribute to, like Ecoize.com and Veganize.com.

MermaidBlog.com is where an actual Mer transmits information to me, and I obligingly relate it to the world.

Joining TheMermaid.Net will allow you to join with me and other Merophiles in getting updates on oceanic and Mer things. The Mers? Well, naturally, they're the type of fish who live in the waters of our world, and whose physical resemblance and size - but for their tails, that is - remind us of ourselves, and with whom we have the shared idea to save our Planet, Sea!