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The blood of a King
When Louis XVI died at the guillotine on January 21, 1793 it was said people dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood. I had always considered it more myth than legend- until I did some research. I had to look … Continue reading
Tricateuse: Witness to the Execution
It is French for knitting woman, but the word tricoteuse has far greater significance than that. As the guillotine slices off another head of the French aristocracy during the Revolution, a tricoteuse sits in morbid calm watching the proceedings, returning … Continue reading
Posted in historical, politics
Tagged 1789, 1793, French history, French Revolution, guillotine, history, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Paris, tricoteuse, Versailles, Women's March on Versailles
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Rape Case in India: Why I Care
It has been on my mind for days now. The details that I can obtain from the story are sketchy at best, a 23 year old woman in New Delhi India was raped by six men on a bus and … Continue reading
Posted in media, Modern Events, politics
Tagged December 17, India, Rape case, Taj Mahal, take Back the NIght
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Moulin de la Galette: Loved by Artists, Moulin Rouge’s Older Wiser Sister
It was a piece of art that remained in my grandfather’s portfolio; a cashe of his young life in Europe. A time when he traveled with his mother and sister from Canada to England to follow his father in World … Continue reading
Interesting Men: Oliver Wendell Holmes
He was a Renaissance man- a polymath in the company of Leonardo da Vinci and Johann Wolfgang van Goethe. A law student who wrote poetry in his free time, he would go on to become an eminent medical doctor and … Continue reading
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