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nelson and we happy few: band of brothers
Napoleon’s ships drifted helplessly at anchor; Lord Nelson boldly closed on them, improvising his tactics as he bore down on the French fleet. Nelson was victorious, as was his habit, and with the victory came British control of the Meditteranean … Continue reading
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Tagged Admiral Brueys, Dick Winters band of Brothers, James Gillray, Jean Antoine Gros, Jean Leon Gerome, Lady Emma Hamilton, Lord Spencer, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon Bonaparte Battle of the Nile, Nicholas Pocock, Sir William Hamilton, stephen e. ambrose, Steven Spielberg, T.Rees Shapiro, Thomas Rowlandson, Tom Hanks
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A salty dog: avoiding the press gang
In the end, although Napoleon’s ambitions were terminated on the field of Waterloo, the struggle at sea decided the issue and determined the course of the century that was to follow. As with Carthage and Rome, it was a struggle … Continue reading
MAD for POMPEII: Parcels of Dionysian Whimsies
When the ruins of Pompeii came to light, they caused a revolution in taste- stripping away rococo gilt, reshaping the female figure, and leaving a deposit of pseudo-Greek temples from Moscow to Mississippi; although what sometimes passed for “classical” would … Continue reading
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Tagged Archibald Alison, César Famin, Dionysiac Mystery Cult Pompeii, Dr. Joanne Berry, Giambattista Piranesi, Giorgio Sommer, Horace Walpole, J.B. Hare, J.B. Hare Pompeii, Jean Racine, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Joseph Addison, Lady Emma Hamilton, Lord Pembroke, Pliny the Younger, Pompeii Art, Pompeii frecoes, R.A.S Seaford, Richard West, Sir William Hamilton, Villa of the Mysteries Pompeii
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JANE AUSTEN “UNAWARES”: Spontaneous Dislike As A Virtue
“Austen’s comedy participates in the Western tradition of komos –that is, comedy as a revelry in mischief. Liberated from what Charles Lamb calls “the burden of a perpetual moral questioning,” Austen’s mischievous humor specializes in truths uncongenial to the sentimentally-based … Continue reading
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Tagged Abi Ryan, Ben H. Winters, Charles Lamb, Claudia Jeanette Lockhart, Claudia L. Johnson, D.C. Measham, D.W. Harding, David M. Buss, David Miall, David Oately, E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Jenkins, Emma Hamilton, Emma Thompson, G.W. Lewes, George Lewes, Heather Jackson, Horace Walpole, Ian Watt, Jan Fergus, Jane Austen, Kate Beaton, Kate Gordon, Kathryn Duncan, Keith Oately, Lady Emma Hamilton, Laura Viera Rigler, Liz Wong, Mary Brunton, Michael J. Stasio, Michael Kellner, Monica Lawlor, Monteiro Belisa, P.D. James, Pamela Mooman, R.W. Chapman, Richard W. Noland, Robert B. Cialdini, Robert P. Irvine, Sarah Siddons, Seth Grahame-Smith, Sigmund Freud, Sonny Liew, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Rowlandson, Vera Nazarian, Virginia Woolf, Wayne Josephson
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GOLDEN GEESE IN THE CUCKOO’S NEST
The scope and character of the pensions bourgeoises – renamed maisons de santé early in the Revolution – changed dramatically following the passage of the Law of Suspects in September 1793. This legislation called for the creation of the Revolutionary … Continue reading
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Tagged Bourbon Restoration, Bradley S. Reichek, Buchner Danton, Charlotte Corday, Chris Moore, Comte de Saint-Aulaire, Dr. Jacques Belhomme, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Duchesse d'Orleans, French Revolution, James Gillray, Jean Baptiste Regnault, Jean-Baptiste Raynault, Jean-Baptiste Rayneaud, Jean-Baptiste Regneault, Jean-Paul Marat, Joseph Ignace Guillotin, Joseph Wright, Lady Emma Hamilton, Marcus Stone, Marquis de Sade, marsden French Revolution, Mia Farrow, Mlle Mezeray, Naomi Campbell, Nelson Mandela, Nick Pisa, Philippe Egalite, Richard Basehart, Robert Carlyle, Robert Carlyle Byrd, Robespierre, Silvio Berlusconi, Talleyrand, Thomas Rowlandson, Vanessa Allen
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SELF RESTRAINT TO SELF INDULGENCE
”If Horace Walpole was right—that the world is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel—the English were the most thoughtful people in the world. They were polite and considerate, not pushy or boastful; the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beau Brummel, Beau Nash Bath, Charles Dickens, Duke of Rutland, Emma Hamilton, Fanny Burney, George Cruikshank, Horace Walpole, Isaac Cruickshank, Isaac Cruikshank, Lady Emma Hamilton, Lady Huntingdon, Lord Chesterfield, Lord Dartmouth, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Pepys, Samuel Shellabager, Theodore Dalrymple, Thomas Gainsborough, Tony Mayer
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