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...Harvard Book Store carries Monarch Notes, the red and white alternative to Cliffs Notes. Some of the booksellers at the store actually said they were in favor of providing such books to students...
...quite literally in the case of the last Czar, Nicholas II (who comes across here as dull-minded and weak), and his wife Alexandra (dull-minded and forceful). At a time when Russia might have been transformed by shrewd and humane reforms into a parliamentary democracy with a figurehead monarch (a role that would have suited a Czar whose only talent was that he sat on a horse well), Nicholas saw himself as a stern 17th century autocrat. Liberalization was dangerous; had not his grandfather, the cautious reformer Alexander II, been assassinated by populists? The Czarina enthusiastically egged...
Though Tiepolo worked nearly all his life in Venice, he spent his last eight years in Madrid, at the court of the enlightened, relatively liberal monarch Carlos III, who would later be Goya's first royal patron. Tiepolo's influence completely pervades Goya's early work, particularly the tapestry designs in the Prado, and it continues in the late work. The title page of Goya's Caprichos, that famous image of a dreaming man around whose head owls and bats and other monsters of the unconscious are flitting, is clearly derived from the frontispiece to Tiepolo's Scherzi di Fantasia...
...more exclusive than you" mentality that Burke's inspires and promotes. Many genealogists have abandoned that attitude and search for the identities of their forebears. I find it more interesting to note that Richard M. Nixon and Carter are sixth cousins through common Quaker forebears than from what medieval monarch they may or may not be descended...
...regime are sharing power with the democrats, overshadowing the democratic forces. But it is a great achievement. There is freedom of expression: I could write my book in Nepal now; I might have personal enemies but not government enemies. The king has [effectively] stepped down... he is a consitutional monarch now. Those are very good changes... but in terms of people's lives, it is the same...