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Yes, reading has diminished. By me too. :frowning: Since my very early youth, and until several years ago, I was an avid reader (and I used to read really fast) as well. As a result, my library grew very large, but, well, I still read very fast, unfortunately much less (books). That's why...

Mike, No recommendation for a Jefferson biography, but I couldn't resist ordering McCullough's 40 minutes speech on CD The Course of Human Events, which he held as the 2003 Jefferson Lecture. The review also mentioned that one of his favorite points (like yours and Dennis's above) to stress...

That's a good thing you did, reminding me of McCullough's books. I planned to read several of them some time ago, then somehow forgot it. Just looked it up at Amazon, and I will order several of them. (If you happen to perform a search for McCullough on Amazon, don't make the mistake of...

But when reading Churchill, you must always take into account that he was a little little bit on the chauvinist side. :) It still points out Paine's influence, and deservedly so, but Churchill LOVED emphasizing something like an alleged importance of an Englishman over (blech) 'intellectuals...

A copy, yes. A full-size copper replica of the original (and not turned green). It's located in a corridor of the statue's pedestal. Used to be part of an exhibit, but I doubt if it's accessible nowadays. Cees

(Just born and passing by, or been here long enough to speak the language?) And, meanwhile, don't mind these two Dutchmen having a casual conversation, so back to the original topic: Know what this is? Cees

Nah, my family sold the patent to these guys. They live in Orange, Orange County, which is particularly fitting. Cees

Yes, although that party was established no earlier than in 1879. It's signature was reformed-Christian, and as it happened, it was the first formal political party in my country. Cees

It was the Napoleontic period, which sort of accustomed people to the notion of having a King (again). The Orange-Nassau family had been loved for a long time by a vast majority of the general public. Many times, when we had had a Stadhouder-less period, the then living heir was called upon when...

Yes, we are. During the Napoleontic occupation, Napoleon's brother Louis was made King of The Netherlands. When he took his position too seriously, Napoleon Bonaparte replaced him, but after he himself was slain, "we" decided to appoint the Prince of Orange in his place as King William I...

Really? Well, mine wasn't. And we did have some contacts with your country. Almost from the start on. Cees