The 48 Laws of Power: words, people, things I didn't know of before
Created: | 22/01/2013 14:50 |
Updated: | 21/03/2013 13:02 |
- Fouquet spent the last 20 years of his life in solitary confinement.
- to vaunt
- Michael III, of the Byzantine Empire
- the Sung Dynasty ruled China for more than 300 years
- in 1890 Edison got the New York State prison authorities to organise the world's first execution by electrocution. the man was only half killed and it had to be done twice.
- Baltasar Gracian.
- "a Pyrrhic victory"
- The Subtle Ruse: The Book of Arabic Wisdom and Guile
- the Trojan horse
- Empress Wu declared herself a divine descendant of Buddha; she basically killed everybody she had to to continue to reign.
- Read about the Peloponnesian War.
- Read The Art of War.
- Moses said: "utterly destroy them ... make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them." is there a reference?
- Carl von Clausewitz
- Deioces
- Herodotus
- capriciously
- a book about the history of the great wall of china?
- the Fronde, the French civil war
- Saint-Simon's writings?
- Louis XIV's lever
- propitious
- caravan
- shaved heads is an insult in the Mongol code of honor
- Genghis Khan had Inalchuq killed by having molten silver poured into his eyes and ears
- The Golden Dream: Seekers of El Dorado, Walker Chapman, 1967.
- Ch'ung-erh, a fifth century B.C. prince of Ch'in, was forced into exile. Why?
- biography of Queen Elizabeth I?
- Simon Foreman, court physician, used his diary to describe his dreams of deflowering her. Did diaries survive?
- Who succeeded her?
- Baron Rothschild; bio of the family?
- the Hollywood 19
- The Joke, Milan Kundera.
- Frankfurt Yiddish
- court society
- where was Darfur before it was in Sudan?
- Callisthenes. Calisthenics?
- 21 Histories, Chinese writings
- biography of Beau Brummel?
- why does the Pope say "we" when he means "I"?
- what does Talleyrand look like?
- obsequious
- impugn
- Pindaric poem
- dilettante
- portentously
- prosaic
- George Sand
- protean
- Promethean
- Velazquez's painting Las Menias
- the Greek sea god Proteus
- The Golden Bough, Sir James Frazer
- Chinese Cultural Revolution
- The Day of the Dupes
- tradition in ancient Egypt for the eldest son (Ptolemy XIII) to marry the eldest sister (Cleopatra)
- Cleopatra's sister Berenice, bio?
- master painter Kano Tennyu
- who is Baltasar Gracian?
- Italian Inquisition; Borri
- "Societies of Harmony"
- boyar
- Seven Weeks War
- what was Prussia?
- see a performance of the Japanese tea ceremony (Cha-no-yu)
- Osaka rice cake
- bested
- The Craft of Power, R.G.H. Siu.
- Kleppini
- Houdini managed to make a 1000lb elephant disappear.
- Adam's Curse, W.B. Yeats.
- Vasari, the first great art critic, ridiculed Paolo Uccello.
- The Book of the Courtier
- P.T. Barnum's autobio still in print?
- who is Hydra?
- The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
- Ambrose Vollard
- Cyprus was captured from Venice by the Turks in 1570.
- George Psalmanazar's history book
- medicaments
- Han can Meegeren, a forger of paintings
- What happened to King Louis XVI?
- Louis-Philippe came from a different branch of the royal family than his predecessor Charles X
- rectitude
- Seneca's imaginary tutor?
- Napoleon's grand-nephew?
- to finangle
- stipend
- Menelik II
- Lieh Tzu, quoted in The Chinese Looking Glass, Dennis Bloodworth, 1967
- bulwark
- aerie
- what exactly is excommunication?
- FDR's dog, Fala
- The Moon Doctor of Berlin
- Tower of Babel
- Dotric-columned
- silex
- gestalt
- Sparta
- trireme
- Tommaso Campanella
- la veglia
- The Hispanic Monarchy
- Atheism Conquered
- "Probatum est."
- a collection of Machiavelli's letters? if not, the one written to Francesco Guicciardini, May 17 1521.
- "As regent to the empress Zauditu". What does that mean if she had a husband?
- Essays in Idleness, Kenko, Japan, 14th century
- Battle of Blenheim
- John Vanbrugh
- potlatch feasts of the American Northwest
- The Unspoken Way
- A Pocket Mirror for Heroes, Baltasar Gracian
- biography of Alexander?
- ostraka
- Florence was divided by two rival factions, the Blacks and the Whites
- Dante Alighieri
- Marie-Antoinette "sported the most elaborate hair in history".
- King Wutugu of Wuge's warriors wore an armour of tightly woven vines soaked in oil.
- A Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi, Japan, 17th century
- emissary
- Yellow Kid Weil recreated a bank! bio?
- what is a bank dick?