(I can no longer remember why maybe just because I love them myself.) There is some disagreement over who made the first one, but John Spilsbury, a London-based cartographer and engraver, was certainly among the earliest manufacturers. I stumbled upon the idea of dissected maps when I was researching the history of jigsaw puzzles.Leonard was the grandson of Portuguese immigrants, and when he introduced the “Portuguese Doughnut” to Hawaii it was an instant hit. While visiting with my sister, I decided we HAD to find a true local place to eat, and we ended up at Leonard’s Bakery, which was founded in 1952 by Leonard & Margaret Rego. I discovered malasadas in Honolulu, of all places.I knew that Andrew would be fascinated by the construction one has only to look at his passion for building card houses to know that he’s an architect at heart. Most buildings were built over framework known as Pombaline Cages (named for the first Marqês de Pombal, who led the reconstruction efforts). This rebuilt neighborhood has endured, and its buildings are considered some of the earliest seismically protective architecture in Europe.The rebuilding effort commenced soon thereafter barely a month after the quake, the king and prime minister had approved a plan to raze the Baixa quarter and “lay out new streets without restraint.”ĬC BY 2.0 image (left) and public domain image (right) as per Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 image as per Wikimedia Commons. Three tsunamis and a fire followed, and by the time the it was all over, 85% of Lisbon’s buildings had been destroyed. In 1755 Lisbon was hit by a devastating earthquake, the magnitude of which is now estimated between 8.5 and 9 on the Richter scale.And indeed, you’ll find mention of it-and his eventful journey home-within the pages of The Other Miss Bridgerton. I finally gave up and started afresh, but I was so annoyed that I decided Andrew would still have to go to Wachtenberg-Molstein. I don’t think I even made it out of Chapter Two. All this, and I had the added bonus of being able to gather research on a Danube river cruise I took with my niece. He wasn’t going to fall in love with the princess, though he was destined for her more sensible (and less likely to cause a diplomatic incident) only semi-royal cousin. His job was to escort a princess back to London. I eventually cooked up a plot in which he was sent to the central European principality of Wachtenberg-Molstein (don’t try to locate it on a map I made it up). I figured-Andrew is such a fun character, surely he’s up to something romance novel-worthy. To which George Rokesby replies, “Well, now that is quite a story.” This is where I admit that I had NO IDEA what that story might be. If you’ve read The Girl With the Make Believe Husband (Book 2 in the Rokesby series) you know that it ended with Edward Rokesby asking about his brother Andrew.
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