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So Josef Stalin wouldn’t be on your list eitherWhy the feck would you want to invite Hitler?
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No!So Josef Stalin wouldn’t be on your list either
Not my idea of a dinner party guest at all... why would it be?
Why not go for...So Josef Stalin wouldn’t be on your list either
Hitler
Stalin
Mao
Idi Amin
And an interpreter.
I imagine the language and table manners would be terrible.
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Blimey, I was thinking of having Victoria Coren-Mitchell, Susie Dent and Stephen Fry round for a few bottles of absinthe and a game of strip Scrabble!
My original list was far more convivialBlimey, I was thinking of having Victoria Coren-Mitchell, Susie Dent and Stephen Fry round for a few bottles of absinthe and a game of strip Scrabble!
I find him to be extremely methodical and precise in specific politics and war. His decision making was excellent in invading the UK plus after all, he and his aides were who brought about the downfall of the Republic but most of all the start of the Empire and I am really taken in by it all. Always have been.
The seeds of the Republic's fall lie with the Gracchi and the inability of a city state's government to control the wealth of the Mediterranean.I find him to be extremely methodical and precise in specific politics and war. His decision making was excellent in invading the UK plus after all, he and his aides were who brought about the downfall of the Republic but most of all the start of the Empire and I am really taken in by it all. Always have been.
Caesar was a vain self-publicist who, for his military brilliance politically miscalculated by preaching clemency to his defeated enemies (unlike Marius or Sulla, previous 'over mighty' generals who had similarly controlled government but who brutally murdered their opposition). His conquest of Gaul was justifiably called a war crime by Romans at the time.
It was left to Caesar's 18-year old nephew, Octavian, to fight the next round of civil wars - and Marc Anthony, Lepidus, Sextus Pompey and the rest all fell.
Octavian, who claimed to restore the Republic, took the name of Augustus and became 'first citizen', the princips, that we have come to know as the emperor. It is Octavian's grey genius, his excellent choice of lieutenants, his push for peace and prosperity that allowed him to rule for 40 years and cement the foundations of the Roman empire itself.
I'd have him to tea
Imagine the conversations! It would be, in a word; epic.The seeds of the Republic's fall lie with the Gracchi and the inability of a city state's government to control the wealth of the Mediterranean.
Caesar was a vain self-publicist who, for his military brilliance politically miscalculated by preaching clemency to his defeated enemies (unlike Marius or Sulla, previous 'over mighty' generals who had similarly controlled government but who brutally murdered their opposition). His conquest of Gaul was justifiably called a war crime by Romans at the time.
It was left to Caesar's 18-year old nephew, Octavian, to fight the next round of civil wars - and Marc Anthony, Lepidus, Sextus Pompey and the rest all fell.
Octavian, who claimed to restore the Republic, took the name of Augustus and became 'first citizen', the princips, that we have come to know as the emperor. It is Octavian's grey genius, his excellent choice of lieutenants, his push for peace and prosperity that allowed him to rule for 40 years and cement the foundations of the Roman empire itself.
I'd have him to tea
Again, we'd need a translator
I'd also like to sup with Marcus Aurelius, Petronius, Cicero and Elegabalus.
Hitler had a brilliant mind he just went too far and also went kinda potty as well. Can you imagine them 4 together all very opinionated and not worried about who they upset - watching the night decend in to chaos would be brill
Exactly and when we look back at what the Roman Empire went on to do, and what they brought to us ... wow, such a superb dinner. We could go on and on. It would be amazing.Again, we'd need a translator
I'd also like to sup with Marcus Aurelius, Petronius, Cicero and Elegabalus.
I'd like to meet so many .. Richard the Lionheart. Owain Glyndŵr..
Again, I dispute Richard the Lionheart - not a good king. John, his brother, was far more intelligent but gets a much worse press - insisted on a bath every day, for instance! Freak!
If you ever have a few days to spare try reading "The rise and fall of the 3rd Reich" So many things i thought i knew turned out to be wrong
Ah but it's not about being such a good king as the reason why. I'd be more inclined to understand their actual reasoning to truce with France and start the crusades.
lol bathing every day. Imagine. The horror!
Good books on the subject include:
John Tolland - Adolf Hitler
William L Sherer - Rise & Fall of the 3rd Reich
John Bullock - Hiter, A Study in Tyranny
Albert Speer - Inside the 3rd Reich
The read Allan Bullock - Hiter and Stalin, Parallel Lives
How about figures like:
Da Vinci
Roger Bacon
The Sufi poet Rumi
Or the Persian polymath Al-Biruni
My interest is in the 3rd Reich not in Hitler himself as such and have read most things about it i have been able to get my hands on
Holly Willoughbooby
Cleopatra
Liz Taylor
Audrey Hepburn
Queen Victoria
To name but a few
Cleopatra
Liz Taylor
Audrey Hepburn
Queen Victoria
To name but a few
I've got some excellent books here on a lot of this subject. Really interesting stuff...
You are after a fight to remember thereHolly Willoughbooby
Cleopatra
Liz Taylor
Audrey Hepburn
Queen Victoria
To name but a few
I've got some excellent books here on a lot of this subject. Really interesting stuff...
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Ermmmm i take it thats not a shag list with queen vic being on itHolly Willoughbooby
Cleopatra
Liz Taylor
Audrey Hepburn
Queen Victoria
To name but a few
I've got some excellent books here on a lot of this subject. Really interesting stuff...