Originally published at Lughnasa 1998. Henbane, whose botanical name is Hyoscyamus niger, is a member of the Solanaceae order of plants which includes such innocuous members as the humble potato and tomato but also highly poisonous and notorious ones such as belladonna, mandrake and the daturas.
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. English: The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (Massacre de la Saint-BarthÃ©lemy in French) was a wave of Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots (French Protestants).
Bartholomew Diaz (Portugese spelling Bartolomeu Dias; c. 1451 - May 29, 1500), Portugese nobleman and explorer, was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Afric â¦ a and discover the Cape of Good Hope in 1488.