Mary Queen of Scots

Petiot was also asked to rename the drink to appease delicate sensibilities. He called it the Red Snapper, which is how the hotel s King Cole Bar still presents it. The original Mary, depending on which wild goose you chase, was (1) Mary, Queen of Scots, who died in a bucket of blood (2) Mary Tudor, who thirsted for Protestant blood (3) a patron at the Bucket of Blood Club in Chicago or (4) a woman who was repeatedly stood up at Mr. Petiot s bar in Paris, which is, as tire English would say, pretty bloody. 

Catholic Order of the Rosy Cross of Temple and Grail. And in 1892, he even established a series of annual Rosicrucian salons to promote art, music, and theater, arguing in his 1894 L Art ide aliste et mystique that From year to year the Rosicrucian idea wins over both artists and the public (quoted in McIntosh 1972, 174). The Theosophical Society opened a branch headed by Lady Caithness, Duchesse de Pomar, who felt that she was the reincarnation of Mary Queen of Scots (McIntosh 157). 

John Guy, My Heart is My Own The Life of Mary Queen of Scots (London Fourth Estate, 2004), ix. 

Before the development of computer-generated special effects, filmmakers used inventive techniques to create illusions. In the 1895 film The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, the camera was stopped, the actress playing Mary ran off-screen and was replaced with a dummy, and the other actors froze in position. Then, the camera was restarted and the guillotine fell to behead Mary. 

Penelope was the subject of a hanging at Hardwick which had been stitched by Mary, Queen of Scots, perhaps in conjunction with Bess, and was a figure associated with the needlework-addicted Bess Mary S. Lovell notes that... 

The boundary between fife and death was in some respects a very imcertain one in Renaissance culture. In his report of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, Robert Wynkfielde assures his readers, Then hir dressinge of Lawne fell from hir head, which appeared as graye as if shee had byn thre score and ten yeares olde powled very short. Hir face much altred, hir lips stirred upp and downe almost a quarter of an hower after hir head was cut off . An account of an execution in... 

Robert Wynkflelde, account of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, http // englishhistoiy.net/tudor/exmary.html. 

Staines, John D. The Tragic Histories of Mary Queen of Scots, 1560-1900 Rhetoric, Passions, and Political Literature. Brulington Ashgate, 2009. 

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