Showing posts with label royalty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label royalty. Show all posts

Friday, May 16, 2008

Queen Victoria pats a terrier.

And drops a piece of gold in the box hanging from his neck.

THE YEAR THAT BLOG FORGOT IS: 1899.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

"Berlin Feels a Thrill of the Old Prussian Spirit as Troops Goosestep and Crowds Sing."

The NYT reports.

Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, in the seventy-eighth year of a life devoted to the cult of war for the greater glory of German monarchs, today, as Germany's President-elect, swore fealty to a republic reared upon the ruins of the monarchy and committed to the cult of peace.

THE YEAR THAT BLOG FORGOT IS: 1925.