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Reading your article on Artist Edwin Landseer [Nov. 16] reminded me of the story about his famous painting The Monarch of the Glen. As a guest of Queen Victoria, Landseer went deerstalking with a gillie from Balmoral. After following a five-pointer stag for over four hours, they had it trapped in a corrie. At that moment Landseer quickly laid down his gun, pulled out a pad and pencil, and started sketching. The proud animal became the famous "monarch...
...court favorite and a national culture hero by painting dogs. He painted other creatures too-ptarmigans and parrots, monkeys, cats, horses, cattle and, especially, deer; there was a time when no cottage parlor or country hall lacked its framed print of Landseer's defiant twelve-point stag, The Monarch of the Glen...
...leaders of the rebellion were executed or dispersed, the British government admitted its previous errors-tacitly, of course-and sought to redress old wrongs. King George III, who had complained that he would go mad if his American colonies were lost, regained his spirits and proved a forgiving monarch. No more than a third of the colonists had supported the insurrection, in any event, and six years of bloodshed and privation were quickly forgotten in the era of good feeling that followed the war. The colonies were placed under a unified government for the first time, and a new capital...
...election, it must automatically turn over the reins of power to the winning party, and that the incumbent prime minister must resign. Again, this is true only by convention, and not by law. The technical, though merely nominal, power to form any government lies with the Governor-General, the monarch's very own representative in Canada (a spot now occupied by Canadians--by convention...
...species or the rise of a new environment, creatures will fill it by trial and error. Some will survive by preying on others. Some will protect themselves by mimicking other species (like today's Viceroy butterfly, which birds avoid because it looks just like the foul-tasting Monarch). Some will simply reproduce faster than their competitors...