What a splendid bunch you are. From underwear-related naughtiness to obscure historical personages, you make my blogging life a bit special.
I know the History Carnival has brought some new readers and linkages (I’ll probably be doing some blogroll updating in the next few days). Welcome to you all, and thanks to everyone who spread the word, offered to host and/or left all the appreciative comments.
On the biographies front, I suspect some of your suggestions are so obscure that it’ll be difficult to dig up very much about them, in languages I can read anyway. (But I will try.) At the moment, the first efforts are likely to be from among the following:
Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg (sounds an interesting story!)
Margaret Cavendish (mmm, yes!)
Christiaan Huygens/Giovanni Cassini (might try to do that for the next Titan ‘fly-by’, which is due in mid-February, apparently)
Keep sending your suggestions here. No promises about when these things will happen (keeping you in suspense…), but I’m not ignoring you, I promise.
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