[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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