Friday, November 30, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
He took such an active interest in his court theater that he's considered the first modern theatrical director.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Elizabeth I
The Armada portrait. This was in celebration of the defeat of an attempt to place England under a foreign tyranny. That's a fact that should never be forgotten, in spite of what some internet twits say.Monday, November 26, 2007
Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany
Then King of Prussia, on the right, riding with the artist Franz Kruger. 1836.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Friday, November 23, 2007
Cixi, Dowager Empress of China
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She loved mugging for the camera.
Consequently, there's an enormous number of pictures of her.
She was spared the knowledge that the last photograph taken of her would show a badly decomposed corpse. I'm not posting that one. It was taken after her tomb was robbed as part of the complete collapse of order that usually follows a switch to a republican form of government. As my grandmother always said, democracy is like boiled chicken. The scum rises to the top.
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