Emma was buried in Calais on January 21 in the graveyard of the Eglise de St Pierre, outside the town, without any sign.Some time later an unknown person planted a wooden cross bearing the inscription “Emma Hamilton, England’s Friend”. Another unknown hand removed it. This happened twice. A British visitor passing through Calais in September… Read More Lady Hamilton in Calais (part 68)
Alice Walker, American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist, was born on 9 February 1944. She was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel “The Color Purple” She said: “The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you… Read More Alice Walker & Harm
On 18 May 1803, the day of Horatia’s baptism, Great Britain declared war on France.Nelson had to leave five days later. Emma, who was pregnant again, was convinced he would be back within a short time, but unfortunately she didn’t see him for the next two years and three months. Britain was going through a… Read More Lady Hamilton & Horatio Nelson: At Sea Again (part 34)
On 18 May 1803 Horatia was baptised in the parish church of St Marylebone, on the very same day that Britain declared war on France. This ended the peace inaugurated by the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, as a result of which the whole of Europe had experienced a period of peace for the first… Read More Lady Hamilton & Horatio Nelson: Horatia (part 33)
Bernard Baruch was an American businessman and politician, and an advisor to Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters.He was born on 19 August 1870 and on his 85th birthday, in 1955, he stated:“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.” Speaking about intelligence:“I’m not smart. I… Read More Experience
“Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.” “War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman… Read More Love and War
Herbert Clark Hoover (10 August 1874 –1964) – American politician and engineer who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the… Read More Herbert Hoover and Youth
Guy de Maupassant, French writer, one of the fathers of the modern short story, was born on 5 August 1850 and died in 1893. “Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”“Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to… Read More Maupassant
Born on 21 July 1899, Ernest Hemingway was too young to sign up for the First World War service without his family’s permission, so he took an alternate route: he volunteered to serve in Italy as an ambulance driver with the American Red Cross, also because he feared he would be rejected by the Army… Read More Hemingway and War
Harry Browne (17 June 1933 – 2006) was an American politician, libertarian writer and public speaker, investment analyst and the author of more than twenty books and thousands of articles. In his 1995 book “Why Government Doesn’t Work” he wrote: “The politicians’ stirring phrases are meant to keep our eyes averted from the reality of… Read More War
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