Saturday, May 24, 2008

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Have you known someone that will never be written about in a history book, but made a profound difference in your life, or the lives of others?  A nobody that was a real somebody?  This is the place to tell their story.  Your submission will be reviewed and appear within a day or two.

No unsung anybodies in this group:
  Queen Elizabeth  I
  King Henry VIII
  Anne Boleyn
  Katherine of Aragon
  Mary Queen of Scots
  British Royals that are
    as popular today as
    they were in the 16th
    century.

With help of historians such as Alison Weir and novelists such as Philippa Gregory, and performers such as Cate Blanchett and Helen Mirren, the Tudor dynasty is hugely popular in recent times.  With two movies due to be released in 2008, one about the Boleyn sisters and the other about Mary Queen of Scots, and the 2nd season of  Showtime's series, The Tudors, the enthusiasm won't be ending soon.

• Tudors in film/TV

• Refrigerator magnets featuring Tudor portraits

Ellen
She became a licensed pharmacist in the late 1930s when other coeds were more apt to pursue teaching or nursing degrees.  Ellen had instead chosen the career path of her father, a small town druggist...

Dot
She was the oldest of seven children, her youngest sister just two years old when Dot, age sixteen, quit school to go to work on an assembly line in a factory...

Edna
I wish I could remember her name with certainty, that kind, graceful, generous woman. I was filled with trepidation on my first day in college. As a bit of a wild child, I'd skipped most of high school, really did not think of myself as college material...

Mr. Clark
The scent, the light, the shapes and textures of the plants did something to me that I've never forgotten...

Stan
I've known people who are smarter, kinder, wealthier, more influential and wiser than Stan, but I've not known anyone I would rather be...