Winston Churchill and his Glow Worm
Winston Churchill and his Glow Worm
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1660 – Charles II arrives at Dover at the invitation of England’s Convention Parliament which marks the end of the Oliver Cromwell-proclaimed Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and initiates the Restoration of the British monarchy.
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A short, sharp hit of history in video format. Acclaimed Irish playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde was the toast of London society in the 1890s until things came decidedly unstuck through an association with a young British aristocrat, Lord Alfred Douglas, known as ‘Bosie’.
The source for this HistoryWow video is: Oscar and Bosie - A Fatal Passion by Trevor Fisher; General Historical Texts.
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Who Am I?
- I was elector palatine of the Rhine between 1610 and 1623.
- I was king of bohemia between 1619 and 1620 – for one winter, hence the sobriquet applied to me.
- I had been chosen by the Protestant Bohemians as ruler after the deposition of the Catholic Emperor Ferdinand II.
- My selection was the cause of the Thirty Years War.
- I was defeated by the army of the Catholic league at the Battle of the White Mountain, near Prague, in November 1620.
- Following this defeat I fled to Holland where I remained until my death.
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Naphtali Herz (1856-1909)
HistoryWow’s Highlighted Historical Quotation
“I shall be an autocrat, that’s my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that’s his.”
Catherine the Great, Russia’s longest serving female monarch from 1762 to 1796.Source: Civilisation’s Quotations by Richard Krieger
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