Wrapping Up

  Grant could now walk around on his feet and he was very proud of the fact even after one of the nurses reminded him that a baby could do what he was doing.  Later that day Brent came in looking all dejected.  "What's the matter?" asked Grant.  The problem was moaned Brent that the fact that Richard didn't really murder his nephews was a fact known by EVERYONE!  Slowly with a sinking feeling Grant realized that the great discovery they had made wasn't really a great discovery after all.  "But," he asked, "why is it still stated as a fact that he killed his nephews?"  Suddenly Brent cheered up, "I will be the ambassador for Richard and everybody will have listen to me!" 

  

  At Last the face of Richard could be identified as the face of a king who wasn't a villain.  Really there was no way he could have committed the murder because he wasn't benefited by the murder and the boys death benefited Henry in every way.       

Clotho Spider

  The Clotho spider lives under rocks in a little dome it makes for itself.  This nest is made of silk which the spider forms into a dome to which it adds more and more layers over time.  It also covers its nest in empty shells of bugs that it head devoured as you can see in the picture.                                                                                               This spider is of the kind that stays alive after the birth of its brood.  Before the eggs are hatched she sits on them like a mother hen and keeps them warm.  When they are hatched she helps them leave the nest and when they are gone she makes another nest in which to live.  This nest she will use for her next brood because her last nest was taken up by the egg cases so there wouldn't be enough room for her and more eggs.       

Appeal to Tradition, Snob Appeal and Appeal to Hi-Tech

Appeal to tradition is when you are doing something just because you've always done it.  Or just because the company has been around for 100 years doesn't mean you should go with that company.  

Snob appeal is when you are doing something or buying something just to be different from everybody else.  Being different from everybody else is not always a good idea though, because being different might mean buying skunk perfume or eating poison Ivy.  This would not be a good idea!  

Appeal to Hi-Tech is when someone uses big words that don't make any sense, but it makes them sound like they know what their doing which might make you buy what they're selling.  

Ivanhoe, The End

  Ivanhoe married Rowena with great celebrations and feasting.  After the wedding Rebecca came to see Rowena to say goodbye because she was leaving with her father.  They were leaving so that they would be safe and would not have to worry about being killed.

  Athelstane punished the monks that had kept him in captivity with imprisonment for three days and giving them only bread and water to eat and drink.  He had wanted to kill them, but his mother had implored him not to because she herself was in the holy order.  Albert Malvoisin and his brother were both beheaded by King Richard for their base acts in trying to kill Rebecca.  The king let Lucas Beaumanoir go free though and also the other knights Templar.  Richard also forgave his brother, John for all the offences he had given him.

Joan's Death

  Joan, the savior of her country, who was loved by all her country men, and who was worshiped by some, was burned at the stake.  The head judge had finally won the battle.  The day before her death he had laughed because he had beaten her, a poor peasant girl.   

  Her story reminds me of Jesus, who came to earth as a lowly carpenter's son and was loved by all until he died a cruel death with no one to pity him except His closest followers.   

  One man who had betrayed Joan asked for her forgiveness when she was on her way to be killed and she gave it.  She was then chained to the stake and was heard praying while the fire burnt around her.  As the flames billowed about her, blocking her from sight, she died.

  When her father heard of her death he died of grief.  Her mother lived for a while after her martyrdom and was even at the place where the pope took Joan's case and said that she was not guilty. 

Tony Pandy

  Everything seemed to be turning into tony pandy!  The man who had supposedly killed Richard's nephews for Richard and also supposedly admitted to the crime when he was captured really never said anything of the kind.  And Edward's wife, after her two sons were supposedly murdered, made friends with Richard the supposed murderer of them.  Strange.  She then got a pension from Richard and came back into court life with her daughters.  She even wrote a letter to her one son who was over sees to come back because Richard would be good to him!  Only someone who was insane or with something else wrong with their brain would make friends with the murderer of her sons.  This made Grant and Brent, the woolly lamb, think that Richard didn't kill his nephews.  Grant also noticed that historians do not seem to have any brain, because some of the things they say about people don't make any sense.  Things just didn't line up, and yet the whole world just took it for granted that what they said was true.  

Joan is Defeated

  Since Joan had gotten a good rest after her last time court, she came back, awake and ready to meet the judges.  The first day she did very well and beat the judges with flying colors.  The next day was the same and this lasted for five days.  The people started making jokes about the head judge and because his name, said a little differently meant pig, they used that to make fun of him.  They painted pictures on the walls of the courtroom of pigs wearing the priestly garments or pigs doing other things that made the h.j. mad.  Finally so as to stop being made fun of, the h.j. brought Joan to the torture chamber where the stretcher was and standing beside it were the men that used it on people.  He hoped that under the threat of death by being stretched, Joan would be so afraid that she would say things that would condemn her to death.  Joan just looked him in the face and said she would only say the things she had said already, so, since the h.j. couldn't force anything out of her, he sent her back to her cell.  Then the h.j. had the list of lies be made into a sentence for Joan's death and so upon the following day after the list was finished she would be burned at the stake.