January 2010
3 posts
Parading Haiti with the Ceremonial Mace
CNN now offers interactive video of the earthquake aftermath with Haiti: 360º. In the style of Google Street View, it’s a take-no-prisoners panoptic walk-through of Port-au-Prince. A (brutalizing) spherical-spectacular development in disaster (virtual) tourism.
The ceremonial mace is an ornamental descendant of a primitive weapon of war, the club or bludgeon. Today, maces are often...
Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte, King of Naples and Sicily, King of Spain and the Indies, Comte de Survilliers (Corte, France, 7 January 1768 – Florence, Italy, 28 July 1844) was the elder brother of Napoleon I of France, who made him King of Naples and Sicily (1806–1808) and later King of Spain as Joseph I of Spain. In Spain he was known as Pepe Botella, with “Pepe” being a diminutive...
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