Sounds like MacDonald Fraser sourced it from a Phil-Alfie (Price)-Kaiser Bill incident in Devon. It’s fiction’s loss that GMF didn’t discover the Sausage Duel: As a cofounder and member of the liberal party (Deutsche Fortschrittspartei) [Rudolf Virchow] was a leading political antagonist of Bismarck. He was opposed to Bismarck’s excessive military budget, which angered Bismarck…
I recently read Edmund Morris’ great biography of Theodore Roosevelt, and someone suggested that for some continuity as well as change I segue into the collected works of Zane Grey. Grey is the great romancier of the American West, and his theme – the forging of the American Nation – is that of Roosevelt: birth…
Tengo fiesta esta noche, pero por la mañana bajaré por Rambla Cataluña, etc. Para quien quiera hacer peticiones, he aquí el repertorio de hoy. Más repertorio aquí.
This is the greatest painting ever painted by a human being. Look well. This is up there with Guernica and the Scream. It is primitive and visceral. It gives Putin the Dorian Gray treatment he has so long been asking for. Look at those creepy scabs of eyebrows. Look at the murky mud-mask of the…
“La visualización pública de que el país entero funciona por sí solo debe ser claramente percibida y concretarse con elementos como el control de las grandes infraestructuras y fronteras, puertos, aeropuertos, seguridad pública, comunicaciones, etcétera.” I’m out anyway on 11/9.
