What was the unflattering description of the Saxons in England prior to the Norman Conquest of 1066, made by 19th Century British Historian Thomas Carlyle?
Answer: He said that the Saxons were ‘a gluttonous race … lumbering about in pot-bellied equanimity; not dreaming of heroic toil and silence and endurance such as lead to the high places of the Universe and the golden mountaintops where dwelt the spirits of the Dawn’.
Source: A History of the English People by Paul Johnson
1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his heir, Prince Luis Filipe are assassinated by Republican sympathizers in Lisbon.
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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’.
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Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
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“In Russia a man is a called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.”
Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman
Roman statesman, soldier and writer of virtue, simplicity and wisdom. He condemned the luxury of his time and was nicknamed “the censor”. He became Consul in 195BCE, took part in the defeat of Hannibal at Zama, held command in Sardinia and Spain, and in 191 BCE assisted the Greeks in overthrowing Antiochus III at Thermopolyae.
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