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...Last Mughal may be set a century and a half ago, but it revolves around a contemporary theme: the clash of civilizations. The spirit of evangelical Christianity had begun to infect the Englishmen in India in the 1850s. Many believed that they had been granted the Empire in order to convert Hindus and Muslims to the "true faith." On the other side, a growing number of India's Muslims were turning to a more orthodox form of Islam and dreaming of declaring jihad against the British. In May 1857, thousands of sepoys (Indian soldiers) serving in the British army mutinied...
...team sell replica gear all over the world. To be fair, Beckham earned his keep as a rather talented right-sided midfielder capable of providing pinpoint crosses to his forwards, and with an ability to bend free kicks around or over defensive walls that is quite rare among Englishmen (although pretty common among top-drawer players from Europe and Latin America...
...Trial by Jury,” performed back-to-back with energy, grace, and abundant humor.Whether Gilbert and Sullivan are names you’ve only heard uttered by your parents, or if you’ve performed their operettas since you were little, these two dead Victorian Englishmen have a lot more to offer than their dreary names suggest. Directed by Charlie I. Miller ’08 and produced by Jeremy R. Steinemann ’08, Jessica A. Bloom ’07, and Xin Wei Ngiam ’07, with musical direction...
...result is both slick and coarse-fine entertainment, as I say, but deficient in the comedy of reticence discouragement that is Aardman's (or maybe just Nick Park's) unique strength. I don't want to say the Englishmen were corrupted, but I think they allowed their strongest, quirkiest instincts to be tethered. The American movie industry is like that, and foreigners will have their hearts broken if they think they'll get bigger budgets and cooler tools without having to pay in some way for them...
...professional life of the imperial bureaucrat could be extraordinarily interesting; his personal life usually was not. Unless they were lucky enough to be posted to a metropolitan center like Calcutta or Bombay, the ICS officers led a lonely existence in remote towns with few other Englishmen around, and yearned incessantly for the motherland. Their wives were even more miserable, and some naturally took to having affairs, especially in the hill station of Simla, where the thin mountain air was reputed to encourage promiscuity. As Gilmour notes, almost all the ICS men couldn't wait to retire, collect their pension...