[Magdalen] Spanish Royaly.

James Oppenheimer-Crawford oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Sat Oct 8 05:15:50 UTC 2016


It would be fascinating to see your slides. There are scanners that can
transfer slides to Jpegs.

I have some pictures which I want to put up on a site for everybody to be
able to see. Anybody have any experience with that?

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
>
> I was sorting through some slides taken at Granada, Spain, years ago.
>  They
> are mostly of the Alhambra, but the Chapel Royal there contains the tombs
> of
> Ferdinand II & Isabella I
>
> I remembered that for Isabella, the greatest achievement of her reign  was
> the driving of the Moors out of Spain.  However, she still bankrolled  the
> European discovery of American via Columbus' voyages, and also by her
> marriage to Ferdinand, united Aragon and Castille into what we now  call
> Spain.
>
> Seeing the tabulation of the rulers of the multiple sections that make  up
> modern Spain, I am bewildered by the complexity of the royal family
> tree which I think surpasses that of England.  US history is a breeze
> by comparison.  The Bourbons and the Hapsburgs are in the mix,  too.
>
>
>
> David S.
>


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