As Richard Poe says, 'George Washington referred to the original 13 states as an empire... New YORK is called the empire state'
https://twitter.com/NakedHedgie/status/1636761711645474817
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_St…
George Washington in a 1785 letter to James Duane, NYC Mayor, called New York "the Seat of the Empire". Washington is said to have used the phrase"Pathway to Empire"when referring to the state in conversation w/ George Clinton, the NY Governor in the 1790s
George Washington in a 1785 letter to James Duane, NYC Mayor, called New York "the Seat of the Empire". Washington is said to have used the phrase"Pathway to Empire"when referring to the state in conversation w/ George Clinton, the NY Governor in the 1790s
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dua…
James Duane was born in 1733, in NYC, in the Province of New York, to Anthony Duane and his second wife, Althea Ketaltas. Anthony Duane was a Protestant Irishman from County Galway who first came to New York as an officer of the Royal Navy in 1698..
James Duane was born in 1733, in NYC, in the Province of New York, to Anthony Duane and his second wife, Althea Ketaltas. Anthony Duane was a Protestant Irishman from County Galway who first came to New York as an officer of the Royal Navy in 1698..
"After his first wife's death, Anthony married Althea Ketaltas (Hettletas), the daughter of a wealthy Dutch merchant. By the time of James' birth, his father had become a wealthy colonial settler.. When Anthony died in 1747, James became the ward of Robert Livingston,
the 3rd Lord of Livingston Manor, where he completed his early education.
The Dutch roots of the NY mayor are not surprising as, prior, during the 17thC, the Dutch East India Company developed the town New Amsterdam which is present-day New York City
The city of New York was recaptured by the Dutch in 1673 during the Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672–1674) and renamed New Orange.
It was returned to the English under the terms of the Treaty of Westminster a year later
It was returned to the English under the terms of the Treaty of Westminster a year later
"The 1652–1654 First Anglo-Dutch War was the result of commercial rivalry and Orangist support for the exiled Charles II , uncle of William of Orange "
[They're all related]
[They're all related]
https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1631583338845569025
In 1524, it was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian explorer in the service of the French crown, who explored the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor
Francis I of France was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy ..
https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1634190323801903106
A prodigious patron of the arts, King Francis I promoted the emergent French Renaissance by attracting many Italian artists to work for him, including Leonardo da Vinci, who brought the Mona Lisa with him, which Francis had acquired...
Francis' reign saw important cultural changes with the growth of central power in France, the spread of humanism and Protestantism, and the beginning of French exploration of the New World ..
The succession of his great rival Emperor Charles V to the Habsburg Netherlands and the throne of Spain, followed by his election as Holy Roman Emperor, led to France being geographically encircled by the Habsburg monarchy..
https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1545667274589306881
In his struggle against Imperial hegemony, Francis sought the support of Henry VIII of England at the Field of the Cloth of Gold .. When this was unsuccessful..
King Francis I formed a Franco-Ottoman alliance with the Muslim sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, a controversial move for a Christian king at the time ..
Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1947) called it "the sacrilegious union of the lily and the crescent"...
https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1623978438225809409
Do, indeed, all roads lead to London ?
Allondon
à London
Allondon
à London
https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1634134805519511552
Jordan Peterson in London later this year with #ARC
Pushed as an alternative to the stiffer #WEF with the villains Klaus Schwab et al
Apollonian vs Dionysian cultures?
Which one is which ?🍿
Pushed as an alternative to the stiffer #WEF with the villains Klaus Schwab et al
Apollonian vs Dionysian cultures?
Which one is which ?🍿
https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1635687352143163407
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