Royal Baby Buzz in News Headlines

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CPT Monarch Factoid - King's Stuff Headlines

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BBC - Royal baby: Moment birth of William and Kate's son was announced

Royal baby: It's a boy for William and Kate, as world celebrates future king
 
Royal Baby: Boy Joy For Kate And William

William and Kate 'couldn't be happier' about baby boy

Royal baby weighing 8 lbs, 6 oz delivered at 4:24 p.m. BST Monday

 

Tony Appleton, a town crier, announces the birth of the royal baby, outside St. Mary's Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing in London, on Monday. (Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press)

Congratulations to William and Kate for the birth of their boy who is 3rd in line to be King of Britain.  He will be the 2nd King of Britain after his yet to be King father, William, who is part American in his blood line thanks to Thomas Gerrard, who brought his family to St. Clements Island in Maryland and established the St. Clements Manor in 1634 in what is today Coltons Point.

For the benefit of those of you not into monarchies, succession and royal heraldry, and particularly the survivors of the dreaded 7th District in Southern Maryland where St. Clements Island and Coltons Point remain to this day, let me simplify what I said.

 

 

Much to the horror of the British royalty genealogists it was discovered that Prince William, son of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, will be the first King in English history to be part American.

They have the Gerrard family of London to blame for it.  Not only did Thomas wind up with the largest Manor House in America, over 25,000 acres, and somehow manage to contaminate the royal bloodline of Britain with American blood, but two of his daughters married George Washington's great-grandfather.

 

William's yet to be named son will be the second King of Britain with American blood.

How many queens ruled England?

Since the year 927, over 1,000  years, the monarchy has ruled England or Britain.

 

From: About.com Women's History

Queens who ruled England or Britain

1. Empress Matilda, Lady of the English (1141), never crowned

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (August 5, 1102 - September 10, 1167)
Widow of the Holy Roman Emperor, Matilda was named by her father, Henry I of England, as his successor. She fought a long war of succession with her cousin, Stephen, who seized the throne before Matilda could be crowned.

 

2. Lady Jane Grey (1553, 9 days)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(October 1537 - February 12, 1554)
The reluctant nine-day queen of England, Lady Jane Grey was supported by the Protestant party to follow Edward VI, to try to prevent the Roman Catholic Mary from taking the throne.

3. Mary I (1553 - 1558)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(February 18, 1516 - November 17, 1558)
Daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, Mary attempted to restore Roman Catholicism in England during her reign. The execution of Protestants as heretics earned her the sobriquet "Bloody Mary."

4. Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603)

 

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(September 9, 1533 - March 24, 1603)
Known as Queen Bess or the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I ruled at a key time in England's history, and is one of the most-remembered British rulers, male or female.

5. Mary II (1689 - 1694)

Mary II assumed the throne as co-ruler with her husband when it was feared that her father would restore Roman Catholicism. Mary II died childless in 1694 of smallpox, only 32 years old. Her husband William ruled after her death, passing the crown to Mary's sister Anne when he died.

 

6. Anne (1702 - 1714)

Sister of Mary II, she ruled when her brother-in-law William III died in 1702. She was married to Prince George of Denmark, and though she was pregnant 18 times, she had only one child who survived infancy. That son died in 1700, and in 1701, she agreed to designate as her successors the Protestant descendants of Elizabeth, daughter of James I of England, known as the Hanoverians. As queen, she's known for the influence over her of her friend, Sarah Churchill, and for getting the British involved in the War of the Spanish Succession. She was associated in British politics with the Tories rather than their opponents, the Whigs, and her reign saw the power of the Crown significantly reduced.

7. Victoria (1837 - 1901)

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Queen Victoria of Great Britain was the longest-ruling monarch of Great Britain. She ruled during a time of economic and imperial expansion, and gave her name to the Victorian Era. She married a cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, when they were both seventeen years old, and had seven children before his death in 1861 sent her into a long mourning period.

 

8. Elizabeth II (1952 - )

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom was born in 1926, eldest child of Prince Albert, who became King George VI when his brother abdicated the crown. She married Philip, a Greek and Danish prince, in 1947, and they had four children. She succeeded to the crown in 1952, with a formal and much-viewed televised coronation. Elizabeth's reign has been marked by the British Empire becoming the British Commonwealth, and a gradual further diminishment of the official role and power of the royal family amid scandal and divorce in her children's families.

 

 

For more on Prince William's American bloodline click on the following links to Coltons Point Times articles:

 

Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Histories Mysteries - Next King of England (Prince William) Shares St. Clements Manor, Maryland bloodline

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2010/01/histories-mysteries-next-king-of.html

For more on the Gerrard family history in America see:

Friday, July 10, 2009
St. Clements Island and Manor - Four Centuries of Uninterrupted History

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2009/07/st-clements-island-and-manor-four.html
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Death in America - The Rest of the Story - from Guns to Hospitals

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Although it is clearly a distasteful subject, it is important people understand the truth behind the debates on such things as gun control, terrorism, homicides and other deaths in the USA.  If not, the newspaper headlines would leave you believing we are back in the wild west.

From the tragic Newtown murders to the Boston marathon, headlines and sound bites paint a dismal picture of being safe in America.  You might think you need a police escort to get our kids to school or go to the grocery store.  But is that really the case?

Here are several categories of deaths in America based on multiple public data bases.  I am extrapolating all categories to cover the years from September 11, 2001 until September 11, 2013, a period of 12 years.

Total Deaths in America - 9/11/01 - 9/11/13

Terrorism

Terrorism                                                           19

Homicides

Firearm homicides                                132,000

Firearm suicides                                    232,800

Murder by suffocation                              6,528

Murder by fire                                            1,068

Murder by poisoning                                   950

Murder by drowning                                   625

Medical

Heart disease                                       7,825,092

Cancer                                                     6,711,744

Stroke                                                     1,746,948

Chronic Lower Respiratory                1,571,196

Accidents                                              1,404,000

Bedsores                                               1,380,000

Hospital Infections                             1,056,000

Malnutrition                                        1,305,600

Prescription overdose                        1,272,000

Medical malpractice                           1,176,000

Outpatient malpractice                     2,388,000

Unnecessary procedures                      945,632

Surgery Related                                    384,000

Other Causes

Alcohol abuse                                         960,000

Illegal drugs                                             113,148

*Marijuana abuse                                              0

Iraq and Afghanistan wars                        6,737

Automobiles                                          460,000

*Abortions                                        14,400,000

*Marijuana overdose alone has not been a cause of death

**Note abortions legal under current law

Remember these are the total deaths in the 12 years since 9-11.  Consider the numbers and then consider the news media coverage of deaths in America.  No matter how you add it up, deaths from terrorism and urban gun deaths, which dominate all media, are far exceeded by multiple forms of medical malpractice and legal drug overdoses.

In fact of the 25 death or life termination categories only seven have fewer deaths than using a firearm to commit a homicide and one is terrorism with only 19 deaths in 12 years, the fewest of any category.

Ironically, there are seventeen categories with more deaths and medical related deaths far exceed those from firearm homicides and terrorism.  Note that during the 12 year period the US has spent more than a trillion dollars on Homeland Security and trillions more fighting wars in support of counter-terrorism.

The other interesting fact is the government actually admits that there has never been a death from a marijuana overdose.  Other legal and illegal drugs or alcohol are always present in victims.

Clearly media coverage is distorted and heavily favors terrorism (the Boston Marathon) and urban homicide (Trevor Martin-Zimmerman case) in order to make sure the news continues to keep the spotlight on the lucrative and ratings driven terrorism and murder categories.

With the overwhelming number of deaths related to medical malpractice, prescription drug overdose and related categories of unnecessary deaths, the absence of media and political focus is blatantly obvious.

Wake up America!  Your greatest risk of being killed unnecessarily in America comes from your doctors, hospitals and medical clinics, not guns, terrorists, illegal drugs or even wars.

So how tuned in are you to the truth?  Here is the latest Gallup poll on the most trusted professions in America.  Note the top three are all medical.  Yet the very same group of trusted categories dominate the cause of death statistics.

Hummmm.

Honesty/Ethics in Professions

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Our Boss is Tougher than Your Boss!

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What greater weapons of mass deception are there in the world than the leaders of the United States of America and Russia, Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin..  Imagine what it would be like if these two controversial and complicated political foes and leaders were to square off in the first ever people's choice contest for the toughest leader in the world.

 

Looks like Putin may have the best transportation for the Iron Man competition. 

No offense Mr. Obama but Putin may take this event as well.

We thought you might agree.

Wow - he can be quite charming to the right crowd. 

Maybe Obama is at least the more expressive.

They don't seem to be in to the competition.

Which one is the hyena?

Both are masters of mind control.

Perhaps they should keep their day jobs.

Forget Snowden, listen to this masterpiece.

So much for silly competition.

What else is there to do here in Russia?

Boy I miss the days when George and I got crazy.

Told you the kid never had a chance.

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