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...Bougainville, who wrote mournfully of the "vast silence broken only by the occasional cry of a sea monster." The French were building a tiny fort in Port Louis on East Falkland in 1764; the British reappeared the next year and began creating a settlement in West Falkland called Port Egmont...
...each other, the Spanish argued that the Papal Line of Demarcation of 1492 had awarded the whole region to them. The French sold out to Spain for £24,000, and Port Louis was renamed Puerto de la Soledad. The British, expelled by Spanish troops in 1770 from Port Egmont, talked fiercely of war. Or at least some London politicians did; the government tried to calm the public belligerence by hiring London's most talented polemicist, Samuel Johnson. Dr. Johnson obliged with a pamphlet calling the Falklands "an island which not even the southern savages have dignified with habitation...
Johnson's sneers proved prophetic. Although British diplomats won Spain's permission to maintain a settlement in the Falklands, London was preoccupied with the rebellion in its North American colonies and abandoned Port Egmont in 1774 as "uneconomical." In departing, though, the British commander nailed up a lead plaque that said: "Be it known to all nations that Falkland's Islands. . . are the sole property of His Most Sacred Majesty, George the Third, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland...
...Beethoven's Egmont Overture. An hors d'oeuvre. Nobody's digestion was ever spoiled by it and no latecomer has ever lost much by missing...
...Abduction from the Seraglio. The role is not a one-shot stop from the stalag for Klemperer. The son of famed Conductor Otto Klemperer, he has also narrated Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder with the Boston Symphony Orchestra; next spring he will do the narration of Beethoven's Egmont with the New York Philharmonic. Klemperer remains fond of Klink. Those residuals still trickle in, after all, and then there is the renown. "Everyone at the Met is a Hogan's Heroes fan," he insists. "When I arrive for rehearsal, they say, 'Good morning, Colonel...