You only get a Germany if you can overcome Britain's attachment to Hannover.
Touche ...
You only get a Germany if you can overcome Britain's attachment to Hannover.
So you don't think we might find out a little more about what might have happened if Ernst had taken the throne in 1840 by looking at what contemporary British MPs said about him, rather than what you think about him?Well I tend to judge a man not by the qutoes of others, but the facts of the things he had done.![]()
1) Those are two different newspapers.The Times/New York Times - just a quick search![]()
So you don't think we might find out a little more about what might have happened if Ernst had taken the throne in 1840 by looking at what contemporary British MPs said about him, rather than what you think about him?
I know its a silly thing to say but dont we do better under Queens?
So you think that those MPs who criticised the Duke of Cumberland in public at the hustings actually quite liked him? I suppose it must have been the head of his fan club who brought this to the South Essex election:Considering what our current MPs say about their colleagues to the press and what they think and do privately, I would think that both are quite different![]()
They might have been. And, if you'd looked, you might have found this:and as I put in a few lines out of the conteporary press... well those might have been friendly to him and not unfriendly...
Mary had an average 60 executions per year. Her father had 260.You forgot Bloody Mary and Empress Maude ..... not notable highlights for England!
Mary had an average 60 executions per year. Her father had 260.
TVTropes. When looking into it further, I found that many sources suggest a total of around 70,000 people, with over a hundred a month.Source, out of curiosity? Not arguing with it, just looking for information.
The thing about Henry VIII is, he didn't kill that many people for straight-out heresy. He killed them for rebelling, or the like. It sort of hides the body count.
What about all the courtiers he felt had failed him? And I hear that back then the people suffocated from smoke before burning so it was not as atrocious. Unlike how hanging sometimes went...The thing about Henry VIII is, he didn't kill that many people for straight-out heresy. He killed them for rebelling, or the like. It sort of hides the body count.
What about all the courtiers he felt had failed him? And I hear that back then the people suffocated from smoke before burning so it was not as atrocious. Unlike how hanging sometimes went...
You're all missing my point--yes, Henry had a higher body count, but most of them weren't killed out and out for being heretics. They were killed for a variety of other crimes. Thus, if you just look at Henry's execution of heretics, he doesn't look so bad. If you look at all his executions...
It gets scary.