Thursday, November 30, 2017
Monday, November 20, 2017
Maria Theresia as Matchmaker.
I found this tale while doing research for a new novel:
“This match-making mania of the
Empress sometimes led to very awkward consequences.
Among others, she brought about a
marriage between another of the Esterhazys the good-natured Count Francis and a
very beautiful but very vicious young lady of the house of Starhemberg; who
soon after her marriage ran away to Switzerland with a most interesting lady-killer,
Count Schulemburg. The gentleman, having been claimed by the Austrian charge
d'affaires, was given up by the Swiss, and condemned to death as a seducer and adulterer.
But, wonderful to relate, the injured husband himself was foremost in obtaining
his release; and was most profuse in his expressions of gratitude towards
Schulemburg, for having rid him of a bad woman.”
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Need Help with Dress Description
This is a photograph of a painting of Maria Christina, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. Does anyone know what kind of dress she is wearing?
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Monday, September 18, 2017
Erie prediction made in 1956
The following is a passage from Deliver us from Evil written by Dr. Tom
Dooley and published in 1956 following his involvement in Operation Passage to
Freedom wherein hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees were transported
from North Vietnam to South Vietnam to escape the horrors of communist rule.
“Just before the debarkation of the
refugees was completed,
Bishop Pietro Martino
Ngo-dinh-Thuc, Vicar Apostolic
of Vinh-Long, who was in Saigon,
paid a visit to our
ship. He is the brother of the
defiant Prime Minister, Ngo
Dinh Diem, a man who never bowed to
the French and who
stated emphatically that the Geneva
partitioning of Indo-
China would lead to a new and more murderous war.”
Anyone who thinks U.S. was wrong fighting communism in
Vietnam should read Dr. Dooley’s book.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
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