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2025-12-08T09:20:48-05:00

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Belief in the Immaculate Conception Means You Believe This

Last updated on: December 8, 2025 at 9:20 am By Mark Wilson

Advent invites us to enter into the Mystery of God. Today is the feast day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A very wonderful and fantastic mystery to contemplate during the preparation for the arrival of the Word made flesh. If you are Catholic, this is one of the core beliefs of our religion. If you believe in the Immaculate Conception, you presumably automatically believe in several other things taught by the Catholic church. If you believe... Read more

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2025-12-14T07:26:18-05:00

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50 Years Before I was Born

Last updated on: December 14, 2025 at 7:26 am By Mark Wilson

In this article I continue to casually look at some of the many events that didn’t happen all that long ago from the place in history we are all standing at currently. Of course, as this article ages, the time difference will continue to grow. I have mentioned some other events in some other articles that occurred during the 20th century that I won’t mention here. I mention these particular events described below to just give a simple perspective of... Read more

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2026-05-27T21:55:34-05:00

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Public Domain Literature Before The 19th Century

Last updated on: May 27, 2026 at 9:55 pm By Mark Wilson

This is a list of some of the many works that are in the public domain. Meaning that you can download them for free on many websites like Project Guttenberg or Internet Archive. It also means that YOU-yes you, as a writer can pull characters and plot lines from these older works and use them in your own new creative works. Make something that was purely dramatic and turn it into Sci Fi or Fantasy or Horror.It also means you... Read more

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2025-11-30T11:10:42-05:00

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What A Year -July 1924/2024 – December 1924/2024

Last updated on: November 30, 2025 at 11:10 am By Mark Wilson

A year ago, we started a new liturgical year that included the start of the jubilee year in the Catholic church it was also a high-octane political year in which the 45th president of the United States Donald Trump ran once again and someone took a shot at. The Olympics also happen, and future president of the United States Jimmy Carter was born and was still alive a 100 years later. A jubilee year, a predental election, and the Olympics... Read more

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2025-11-27T08:14:43-05:00

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12 Things I’m Grateful For

Last updated on: November 27, 2025 at 8:14 am By Mark Wilson

On thanksgiving we remember that there are oodles of things to be grateful and thankful for in life. Little Things. Big Things. Organized Important Things. Random Everyday common Things. Practical Things. Unusual Things. Exciting Things. Boring Things. Fun Things Such as… 1. Words that are fun to say. “Oodles of noodles help blue poodles mit der strudel.” — Berkeley Breathed (Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness) Words are what I use in my everyday speech and in my blog posts,... Read more

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2025-12-14T11:45:19-05:00

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The 1910’s was Decade The Titanic Sunk and WWI Raged

Last updated on: December 14, 2025 at 11:45 am By Mark Wilson

As I continue to highlight history, I now delve into the decade that gave us the greatest most terrible war in the history of mankind. Also it gave us one of the most famous disasters of the 20th century that would inspire one of the biggest movie blockbusters of all time. Exploration was happening at the bottom of the world. Tarzan first swung into literature. It is also when cinema started to turn out the big stars of the new... Read more

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2025-11-23T09:42:10-05:00

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A Century of the Feast of Christ the King

Last updated on: November 23, 2025 at 9:42 am By Mark Wilson

A century ago on December 11, 1925 Pope Pius XI‘s released an encyclical called Quas primas, on the Feast of Christ the King which promulgated the feast. Quas Primas (December 11, 1925) 7. It has long been a common custom to give to Christ the metaphorical title of “King,” because of the high degree of perfection whereby he excels all creatures. So he is said to reign “in the hearts of men,” both by reason of the keenness of his intellect... Read more

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2025-11-21T21:18:58-05:00

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125 Years Ago at the Dawn of the Century

Last updated on: November 21, 2025 at 9:18 pm By Mark Wilson

I find the study of history fascinating and intoxicating. For the last few years on my blog ‘The Catholic Bard’, I have been researching and then constructing the knowledge found in that research into accessible timelines that assemble lots of trivial facts about a lot of historical events into a birds-eye view of history. Timelines help you learn a little about a lot. In my opinion Trivia isn’t Trivial, it’s informational and helps you gain an inkling of knowledge about... Read more

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2025-11-17T07:54:57-05:00

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Why I like to Write Literary Timelines

Last updated on: November 17, 2025 at 7:54 am By Kristin Wilson

Here are some thoughts on why literary timelines of history are a good thing. I just told this to my wife who said “You wrote an entire thing about writing timelines?” If you’re a writer and are looking for things to write about, History has plenty of people, places and things for you to choose from. There is an arsenal of ideas to choose from. There is always room for more Bards. Time and space are intertwined concepts in human... Read more

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2025-11-21T07:50:21-05:00

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1940 – The Year of Bugs, The Flash and Anti -Nazi Comedy

Last updated on: November 21, 2025 at 7:50 am By Mark Wilson

On this day November 13, 1940, Walt Disney’s classic piece of animation Fantasia first came out for the world to see. It came out in a year in which serval cultural cartoon and comic book characters first entered the public consciousness. A lot of them are still viewed and watched in new forms 80 years later. Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, The Flash, Captain America, Archie Andrews, Lex Luther, Robin and the Joker, Abbot and Costello on film,... Read more

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