Monthly Archives: November 2018

BOOK PROMO: SHIELD OF BEOM EXCERPT

November 28, 2018 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

An excerpt from my latest book, on sale now at Amazon & through Chapters Indigo and Barnes & Noble. http://tinyurl.com/y8gv444o One meal we always looked forward to at the palace was high tea. Taz and Vostia’s mistrust of most things originating on AUP’s founder planet did not extend to high tea, a custom they […]

HISTORIC WRITERS: EARLY SCI-FI WRITERS

November 26, 2018 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

Science fiction novels started quite a while back – with some of their authors envisioning things that are now a reality. (Though Frankenstein’s monster has, thankfully, yet to make an appearance.) https://www.famousauthors.org/h-g-wells http://mentalfloss.com/article/546405/facts-about-jules-verne And my personal favourite of these, https://io9.gizmodo.com/5616081/how-edgar-rice-burroughs-became-one-of-the-twentieth-centurys-biggest-scifi-authors I devoured all of his Mars & Pellucidar books as a teen. And the non-sci-fi […]

HISTORY SHARE: HISTORY OF EPCOT

November 25, 2018 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

History of the Original Nine Pavilions in Future World at Epcot

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, U.S.A. 2018

November 22, 2018 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

FUTURISTIC CITIES BEING BUILT RIGHT NOW

November 21, 2018 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

In keeping with time travel into the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGeCcI4d2t0

BOOK PROMO: SIDE TRIP BOOK 2 DEBUT

November 19, 2018 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

Time travellers can move forwards, too, and teens and youthful minded adults are encouraged to join the second adventures of my planet-hopping Brent siblings and their friends, Kirsty & Jip. http://tinyurl.com/y9u2jsap

HISTORIC BEVERAGE: TEA

November 17, 2018 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

http://www.upworthy.com/the-hidden-history-of-tea-shows-us-that-little-things-can-have-a-huge-impact?c=kyw1&s=p&kwp_0=772439&kwp_4=2688189&kwp_1=1141158

HISTORIC 100th ANNIVERSARY: REMEMBRANCE DAY

November 11, 2018 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

It is now one hundred years since the guns of WW I ceased fire. Sadly, the war to end all wars did not end all wars. So, in remembering those who fell (on both sides), and those whose lives were devastated by their falling (on both sides), pray that the world begins to put more […]