Tag: Napoleonic wars
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General Robert E. Lee’s myocardial infarction: Did illness impact the Battle of Gettysburg?
Lloyd Klein San Francisco, California, United States Robert E. Lee in March 1864[?]. Photo by Julian Vannerson. Library of Congress. No known restrictions on publication. Ascribing the loss of the Battle of Gettysburg to an illness of General Robert E. Lee became common among historians thirty years ago. The legend of his apparently poor…
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A proliferation of monsters: art of the weird as expressions of anxiety in Britain and Japan
Steve Wheeler Greenwich, London, England Fig 1. William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Plate 20; 1790 © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge The human fascination with fear of the unknown has been documented in art and literature across civilization for centuries. In every culture, this has manifested itself in the form of creatures as…