Charles I Storms the Houses of Parliament
Author:
William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons
Wikipedia
Breaking Point
King Charles I (1600-1649) and his parliament were enemies. The king wanted to rule as an autocratic monarch without answering to a parliament. He believed in the Divine Right of Kings and therefore answered only to God, but he had been forced to recall parliament to gain funds for military action in Scotland. Long harboured resentments, new and clear suspicions and escalating tensions could only end disastrously.
As 1641 turned to 1642 Charles I reasoned that five politicians sitting in the House of Commons, John Pym, William Strode, John Hampden, Arthur Haselrig and Denzil Holles, were the ringleaders of unrest in London intended to incite widespread riots against the king s authority. He then decided that these men must have colluded with the Scots to stop a military campaign from being realised and that they intended to impeach his French Catholic wif
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While Florida inches toward decriminalizing the leisurely use of doobage, the recreational scarfing of sandwiches has been legal for ages, and we have Sir Edward Montagu, aka the Earl of Sandwich, to thank for that dude did for handhelds what Tommy Chong did for weed. But Cheba Hut, newly open on Colonial Drive, rolls both cultures into one big fat joint of an eatery.
Yes, marijuana and the munchies are both celebrated at the city s first Cheba Hut, and the East Orlando location is in close proximity to the chain s primary customer base: UCF students and WMFE on-air personalities. There are punny-named menu items, a thumping soundtrack (Cypress Hill and Peter Tosh get heavy rotation), and wall art that ll either hold your gaze or freak you out, depending on how baked you are.
In this series we pay tribute to the art we wish could visit and hope to see once travel restrictions are lifted.
If you are a country house fanatic like me, and you’ve been lucky enough to spend time travelling around Britain to seek them out, you might have visited some of the greats: Petworth, Blenheim, Chatsworth.
But have you heard of Boughton House, the “English Versailles”?
As an art historian born in England who works on the art and culture of Louis XIV’s France, I’m a little embarrassed to admit I only learnt about Boughton very recently.
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This episode suggests
ruthless careerism, but as the Pulitzer Prize–winning critics Mark Stevens and
Annalyn Swan write in their new biography,
Francis Bacon: Revelations,
the reality turned out to be more haunting. Beginning in 1972, Bacon regularly
checked into the hotel room where Dyer died. He slept in the same bed where
Dyer had cheated on him; he sat on the toilet where Dyer took his last breath.
Bacon wasn’t spiritual, but these private rituals, which could last up to two
weeks, had the intimacy of a séance. It was the closest Bacon came to
sentimentality.
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