This is all horrible news .Although unlike millions of Americans I am immune to the UK royal family fascination am upset since Charles and Kate are human beings suffering from a horrible illness. I lost someone special to cancer and feel sorry for anyone this side of Putin who has it .
Especially so about Kate Middleton since she is a young woman with much to offer including as a wife & mother . This must be bringing back terrible memories for her husband who lost his own mother as well as is going to be terrible for her three small children .
Must start with Imelda Marcos who like an evil spirit , toxic cloud hovers over The Philippines even today .Dracula had to have been a better person .She & her late husband robbed this country and killed or imprisoned anyone they didn't like .Her son is now President which leads many people both Filipinos & expats to wonder what is wrong with this place ?
1815 Napoleon .More of my ongoing French history lesson ! Will raise this with some of my French neighbors who love talking about back home. Marshall Foch too, he looked short.,
Harriet Beecher Stowe's UNCLE TOM'S CABIN . A highly influential book in US history that helped lead to the south's leaving the USA & war to force them back in without slavery A popular black term today for black people who are working for conservative whites against black interests . Includes Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas .I agree there.
Albert Einstein and theory of relativity .Being so smart he was able to come up with that theory but I cannot understand it . Guess that's why he was the genius !
Himmler & Dachau .I see he committed suicide, too bad he was not executed by the allies .But killing himself was good enough .Was he Netanyahu's model for what he's now doing in Gaza ?
Henrik Ibsen .New to me . He looks so smart and like Einstein's theory of relativity don't think I could understand what his plays were about
Edict Amboise..........Good they stopped fighting about religion ! If anyone was happy about that it was the Almighty. Relieved seeing this info after past posts where people were burned alive because of religion
French departments .........One of my friends here is a dynamic women from New Caledonia , although a Polynesian she is as French as you can be
David Livingstone........ The Dr Livingstone I presume ?
Adolf Eichman........Evil person , got what he had coming to him .We Americans love seeing killers hung
Ursula Andress.... Very Euro and beautiful
Bruce Willis............Tragic ending
Arthur Balfour .......New to me . He's been dead since 1930 but people are still dying today partly because of him
Back home admired my friend Puck's clothes purchases before she goes back to Sweden . She says clothes here are a fraction of the cost that they are back home .I know !
Chuck Berry .A father of rock & roll and all around lunatic with several stints in prison & scandals HOWEVER a music icon and unlike so many rock stars from the early days must given credit for not letting others steal his money .He died very wealthy with a net worth 20 million dollars
Some more interesting French history ! The Paris Commune/Hitler & Mussolini meeting to go to war against France / The Evian Accords
Jacques de Molay .Burned at the stake .Ouch ! This is the second case of people being burned alive mentioned here .Can anyone else smell something burning ?
Neville Chamberlain . Looked out of touch with the world around him .Did however see while it looked like he was fooled by hitler at Munich in 1938 most people in Britain did not want a war in 1938. He also looked sickly and saw he wud soon die of cancer.
Luc Beeson . I liked his NIKITA & the American re-make with Bridget Fonda.
Fall of Montsegur , killing of 200 Cathars..........People burned alive ? Some people take religion way to far.
Bernardo Bertolucci ........... I liked THE LAST EMPEROR .Goes to show no matter how powerful you are fate can change everything. Joan Chen is a good actress and the Maggie Han's character really was deliciously evil
Jerry Lewis ...........I never saw his appeal .Read he was regarded as a a genius in France ? One of his sons was on TV saying Jerry Lewis had left his entire fortune to his decades younger trophy wife
Louis-Napoleon ...........Never knew of him but see how he was trying to turn the clock back to bringing back a monarchy and be his uncle building an empire .Had a colorful wife
OMG a situation may be developing at the office where I will be forced to be a hypocrite .Something may be developing between a gay guy on my team and a local gay staffer. Wud violate the no office romance policy ( which gets ignored the higher you go up in the corporation ) but still exists .I want to keep my job .
One of my British neighbors had us laffing saying Michael Caine should be made King of the UK .
= EVENTS = Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
....Another name & composition I can use to impress music snobs
1954 – The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory led to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam.
Wud make a great war movie especially with an anti war theme . In research about this sentence learned about Genevieve de Galard who was at the battle, now one of my heroes
L. Ron Hubbard, American author, founder of Scientology (d. 1986).
A conman with his sciencetology nonsense but has found many followers ( suckers) including in Hollywood .Too hard to believe.
1990 – Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (b. 1903)[219]
Came across him in psych courses.,.Smart man .
Jean Ferrat, French singer-songwriter ................. Likable looking.
Bernie Madoff.According to a Jewish friend despite being Jewish probably the most hated man by Jewish people in the USA since Hitler .Because they were among his biggest victims . Evil man who's stealing led to the financial ruin of 10's of 000's of people as well as some suicides. His own family too, his 2 sons died as a result of his stealing .Happy to learn he died in prison .
Fukushima disaster of 2011 . I worked in China in 2012 and because of Japanese war crimes there in World War Two people wud laff about the disaster, saw it as the gods revenge on Japan . Nuclear energy & tsunami's don't mix !
Jack Kerouac. I see an early champion of beatniks and non - conventional life styles. Good for him , the world needs rebels !
Bombing in Mumbai that killed 00's .Makes me happy my team does not have to do inspections at hotels in India.
Sun Yat-Sen .A good man , we saw his home in Shanghai. One of several important places across the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC and St Peters Basilica in Rome the Security told me to put my shoes back on
Liza Minnelli .Loved her in CABARET but on tv she looks an old & burned out drunk . Researching after seeing this post saw she was violent to both a husband & butler hitting them with whisky bottles. Yuch!
Am truly amazed learning about Richard Brooks .Did not know of him but discovered when researching he was the director of LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR . Knew a radical feminist who taught Film &TV at a university wud go into rage about that movie seeing it as a sexist moralistic attack on female sexuality .From his photo he didn't look so evil
Rudolf Hoss .Yet another war criminal who has popped up , the other day Begin now this nazi who headed a concentration camp .Was happy to read he was executed ( hung ! ) for what he did .I saw a concentration camp in Germany ( Sachsenhausen in Berlin ) and think anyone involved in running those places should have been executed .