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Flasshe - 2008-07-10 15:56:16
I can't figure out for the life of me why portrait painters from before the invention of photography didn't paint their subjects in a more photo-realistic style for the eventual benefit of those of us studying history. In that painting of Lady Jane, she looks just like every other woman in a portrait from that period.

I flunked Art History.
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MacGregor - 2008-07-10 16:13:59
It would have been funny if your celeb-sight had been Jean-Claude Van Damme.
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Mr Lojban - 2008-07-10 18:14:49
Don't get me started on Western royal anecdotes. The never-discussed abjection of Edward VIII? The steely courage of Juan Carlos I? I think my favorite is the enduring image of Pope Julius II, at the age of 63, personally leading the army of the Papal States to a successful conquest of Perugia and Bologna in 1506.
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Janet - 2008-07-10 18:33:32
Totally with ya on the "Economic Stimulus" letter... experiencing the sequence of physical reactions upon first reading it was worth, well, $600 or so.
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Paula - 2008-07-10 20:34:06
Pope Julius II was new to me. Wiki tells all.
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