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WWI and Tuchman's "The Guns of August" - read the opening paragraph
Posted on 11/9/18 at 10:10 pm
Posted on 11/9/18 at 10:10 pm
Europe on the eve of The Great War, which ended 100 years ago --- "...on history's clock it was sunset"
“So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration. In scarlet and green and blue and purple, three by three the sovereigns rode through the palace gates, with plumed helmets, gold braid, crimson sashes, and jeweled orders flashing in the sun. After them came five heirs apparent, forty more imperial or royal highnesses, seven queens – four dowager and three regnant – and a scattering of special ambassadors from uncrowned countries. Together they represented seventy nations in the greatest assemblage of royalty and rank ever gathered in one place and, of its kind, the last. The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history’s clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.”
“So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration. In scarlet and green and blue and purple, three by three the sovereigns rode through the palace gates, with plumed helmets, gold braid, crimson sashes, and jeweled orders flashing in the sun. After them came five heirs apparent, forty more imperial or royal highnesses, seven queens – four dowager and three regnant – and a scattering of special ambassadors from uncrowned countries. Together they represented seventy nations in the greatest assemblage of royalty and rank ever gathered in one place and, of its kind, the last. The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history’s clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.”
Posted on 11/9/18 at 10:13 pm to nom de plume
Power makes people crazy
Posted on 11/9/18 at 10:15 pm to nom de plume
I’m impressed the heads of state could ride: could you imagine DJT, Theresa May, and Angela Merkel on horseback?
Posted on 11/10/18 at 12:09 am to nom de plume
It’s amazing how they were all related and closely related. You would think they would have got together and prevented the massive loss of life.
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Posted on 11/10/18 at 12:13 am to nom de plume
Absolute power corrupts, absolutely.
Thank God for the constitution.
Thank God for the constitution.
Posted on 11/10/18 at 1:03 am to fatboydave
A tapestry hangs in the lobby of the LCG building where we vote. On it, a quote attributed to the Marquis de Lafayette speaking of the newly minted United States.
"Humanity has won its battle for liberty now has its nation."
"Humanity has won its battle for liberty now has its nation."
Posted on 11/10/18 at 1:14 am to FightinTigersDammit
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Nice piece of writing
This. And then folks got crazy
Posted on 11/10/18 at 2:18 am to nom de plume
Great read. Just finished Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger (German first hand account of war on the Somme, Flanders, etc.) and got a sense that both sides lived in horror of the daily human and material costs of that war. Sad these leaders (i.e. cousins) couldn’t figure out how to avoid global conflict. Assholes. Princes included.
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