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spotsofcolour

Happy Wellesely Day!

May 01, 2013 09:37

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fact of the day

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tatjna May 1 2013, 09:09:41 UTC

1st May 1776: Formation of the Illuminati. Trufax!

spotsofcolour May 2 2013, 13:10:16 UTC

That's pretty cool!

superficiality May 1 2013, 15:02:15 UTC

Not too shabby looking, either.

spotsofcolour May 2 2013, 13:08:32 UTC

Haha - according to the Sharpe books (and this is probably true, although not mentioned on his wikipedia page), his troops called him 'Nosey' because he had such a big nose.

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birdienl May 2 2013, 07:38:31 UTC

Funny enough, his picture is on the cover of the book Captain Wentworth's Diary by Amanda Grange!

spotsofcolour May 2 2013, 13:44:59 UTC

Wut. He is better than a Captain! He was a General!

It doesn't half bother me when they stick portraits of real people on the covers of fiction books to make them look "authentic".

birdienl May 2 2013, 20:26:10 UTC

Oh silly me, I commented anonymously

spotsofcolour May 2 2013, 20:35:35 UTC

SNEAKY.

I suppose Austen was writing contemporaneously to the Napoleonic wars, but it's probably stretching it a bit. Also, Wentworth was a Navy man - they should have used a portrait of Nelson!

_xxxdezxxx May 3 2013, 09:34:28 UTC

His nose doesn't look all that big to me!

Thanks for the history lesson! I enjoyed it (: