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pen portrait-Colette
Posted in personalities, tagged Benny Thomas, black and white, Colette, French, pen and ink, pen portraits, writer on June 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Pen Portraits: Otto von Bismarck
Posted in personalities, tagged Benny Thomas, brush and ink, containment, diplomacy, Iron Chancellor, Junkers, landed gentry, pen and ink, statesman, Unification, William II on March 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
PRINCE OTTO EDUARD LEOPOLD VON BISMARCK (German) (1815 – 1898) Statesman. The founder and first chancellor of the German Empire, was a political genius of the highest rank. At his best in foreign affairs, he was the principal architect of the age that gave Europe 26 years of Peace after the Congress of Berlin (1878). [...]
pen portraits- Ouida
Posted in personalities, tagged Animal lover, Benny Thomas, eccentric, female novelists, pen and ink, portraits, sensationalism, Under two flags, Victorian England on March 14, 2012 | 3 Comments »
1839-1908) During her career, she wrote more than 40 novels, children’s books and collections of short stories and essays. She was an animal lover and rescuer, and at times owned as many as thirty dogs. For many years she lived in London, but about 1874 she moved to Italy, where she remained until her death [...]
Pen Portraits: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Posted in personalities, tagged Benny Thomas, black and white, dramatist, orator, outsider, pen portraits, portrait, Whig politician, wit on March 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
( Rich.d Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) R. B. Sheridan was born in 1751 in Dublin, Ireland, where his family had a house on then-fashionable Dorset Street. His father, Thomas Sheridan, was for a while an actor-manager at the Smock Alley Theatre but, following his move to England in 1758, he gave up acting and wrote a [...]
Bad Company
Posted in personalities, tagged Abd al-Malik, Benny Thomas, eccentrics, fools, man, Omar bin Al-Khattáb, Ommiade dynasty, Sir Antony Eden on March 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For those who believe God as the creator an eccentric is the left handed image of God. The good side was engaged elsewhere, obviously. For those who think evolution has led us this far I can explain an eccentric as one who is an exception to the rule. In the gene pool of mankind eccentrics [...]
Pen Portraits-Adam Smith
Posted in personalities, tagged Benny Thomas, David Hume, Dr. Francis Hutchenson, economics, mercantilism, pen portraits, Physiocrats, the Scottish Enlightenment on March 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Adam Smith (1723-1790) He is considered as the founder of political economy, and he was the posthumous child of a Scottish Comptroller of Customs. Born in Fife, he went to Glasgow university where he came under the influence of Scottish Enlightenment and Dr. Francis Hutchenson, and later went to Balliol college,Oxford where he remained till [...]
Pen Portraits-David Lloyd George
Posted in personalities, tagged art, British Prime Minister, Lloyd George, orator, pen portraits, portraits, statesman, welfare state, Welsh Wizard on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
(1863-1945) Who is the greatest British political figure in the twenty century? Winston Churchill or David Lloyd George? Historians are divided over this though in their political career they were considered as terrible twins. Both had switched sides and had facility with words to mask their real intents. Lloyd George had an instrumental attitude to [...]
Pen Portraits-Leo Tolstoy
Posted in art, personalities, tagged Benny Thomas, giant of letters, moral voice, novelist, pen portraits, portrait, Russia, war and peace on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Assassination of Walter Rathenau
Posted in personalities, politics, tagged Freikorps, Hitler, Imperial Germany, Minister of Reconstruction, Post WWI, Rathenau, Treaty of Rapallo on January 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Some players on the national arena hold a vital role holding precariously the whole edifice up. Walter Rathenau was in the Weimar Republic the minister of Reconstruction, a vital role in the devastated country. The Ebert government was facing civil unrest with the Red scare;the economy was in shambles and it needed fixing and he [...]
pen portrait- Robert Clive
Posted in personalities, tagged Battle of Plassey, bipolar disorder, blackhole of Calcutta.Nawab of Arcot, British imperialism, corruption, East India Company, India, Shropshire, suicide on January 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Robert Clive (1725-1774) Spirited son of a Shropshire lawyer in declining fortunes he was sent at the age of three to live with his relatives in Manchester. Soon proving himself unmanagable and a bully who terrorized the people of Market Drayton, he was only sent to India to get him out of the way. British [...]
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