Oh, well, you're just encouraging me! *L* Let me trawl through my brain here and see what I can net...
Zenobia, queen of Palmyra. She captured Egypt from the Romans in the 3rd century and kept it for about five years until finally conquered by Aurelian. He was so impressed by here, though...
I would also like to point out that the Welsh were the first in Britain to really take tactical advantage of the longbow, using it to quite good effect against the Anglo-Norman invaders. I think it was Edward I who really recognized the possibilities and added it to the English army -- perhaps...
I also write poetry, and I find it much harder to write a poem that rhymes and still means something. I think poets like that -- poets like Yeats, Poe, and Blake, not to mention the Bard himself are extraordinary.
I was actually reading an Archaeology magazine awhile back, and I stumbled over an article about Thracian chariot burials -- it's absolutely fascinating. Here's a link if you're interested.
http://www.archaeology.org/0709/abstracts/chariot.html
Gorgeous, but then so are the languages they're based on -- quite a bit of Welsh with some Gaelic thrown in for good measure. There are some Nordic influences as well, but the pronunciation was quite Welsh.
I love Welsh -- that is a language made for singing! It's so liquid and musical...even...
Hi, all. I'm new to this forum -- was just looking at fascinating women in History and stumbled across this. I love all the women listed here in the forum, and I've a few to add, if you don't mind. :)
Artemisia I & II from Halicarnassus -- the first participated with Xerxes in his war against...