370 - 455 CE   “The exclamation mark (!), known informally as a bang or a shriek, is used at the end of a sentence or a short phrase which expresses very strong feeling.”  University of Sussex Guide to Punctation Buddhadasa’ death in 370 CE left his son, Upatissa I, a most secure throne to sit...

254 – 370 CE   “Peace and love, peace and love!” Ringo StarrGathabhaya, the third of the three Lambakarna family plotters, seized the kingdom in 253 or 254 CE.  For 14 years he ruled it with the proverbial rod of iron.  A man of deeply conservative religious beliefs, he was unimpressed by the...

193 - 253 CE   “Where's Papa going with that axe?”  Charlotte's Web After 126 years so stable and propitious as to suggest they might never end, the Lambakarnas settled down to that great pastime of the late Vijayan kings – regicide. The preoccupation would test the very stability of the kingdom...