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...Their Majesties." To Englishmen one of the most satisfactory things about King George is His Majesty's intensely emotional reaction in any crisis, the reaction of an honest English heart...
MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Sun Storm in a Gallery When two Englishmen meet, they talk about the weather. When staff at London's Tate Modern museum gather, they talk about "The Weather Project" - and how Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson's installation leaves them feeling foggy. While visitors have been dazzled, Tate staffers say they've been disoriented by a yellow mist in which a representation of the sun drifts. The haze is glycol, a harmless sugar-and-water mix often used to create atmosphere in nightclubs. The cure? A bit of fresh...
...course of human events ..." he famously began. Significantly, what followed was an attack not on the British government (i.e., the ministers) but on the British state incarnate (i.e., the King). "To attack the King was," as historian Pauline Maier notes, "a constitutional form. It was the way Englishmen announced revolution...
...someone touch a nerve? GWYNETH PALTROW, who was enthusiastically embraced by the British press after her recent performance on the London stage, is now being pilloried. Her crime: suggesting that Englishmen lack a certain vigor when it comes to the opposite sex. In an interview with Now magazine, she revealed that she had been asked out only twice during her London stay. "British people don't seem to ask each other out on dates," she said. "If someone asked you out, they're really going out on a limb, whereas in America it happens all the time." On behalf...
...enough, with a cup of tea. London diarist Samuel Pepys recorded his first taste of "tee (a China Drink)" in 1660; by the early 1700s, as cheap sugar to sweeten the brew poured in from the West Indies, the entire nation was on its way to becoming hooked. Some Englishmen were soon knocking back 50 cups a day. The English East India Company, which held the monopoly on all Eastern imports, saw its tea sales grow from 97,000 kg in 1713 to 14.5 million in 1813, making tea its cash cow. The government, too, came to rely on Britain...