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Can Dynasty Detectives Unearth The Medici Secrets?
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 12-13-2003
| Bruce Johnson
Posted on 12/21/2003 3:45:44 PM PST by blam
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To: LonePalm
"Catherine de Medici is credited with introducing the fork into polite dining."
Did she do it by waiting til a guest was poisoned and saying:
"Stickka the forkka in him he's done"?
To: LonePalm
Catherine de Medici is credited with introducing the fork into polite dining. She also introduced high heels IIRC.
For one she should be praised and for the other pilloried
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posted on
12/22/2003 3:34:25 AM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Prancer II: Pass the Mashed Potatoes and Gravy. - Delicious! A Holiday Movie for the whole family!)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear; blam
This is a great article Blam, and thanks for posting it. It is intriguing to speculate about what they might really be looking for - the Medici were subject to all sorts of legends and rumours, including that they were necromancers.
Catherine de Medici is credited with introducing the fork into polite dining.
She also introduced high heels IIRC.
And also she introduced the sidesaddle. She also had this problem, which was that one of her sons showed no interest in women, and was rumoured to be homosexual. In order to change this, she organised a dinner where all the servers were nude girls wearing only a sheer veil.
The dinner didn't change the nature of the future Henri III, so it is an historical footnote.
To: blam
The prospect of finding out who was who etc is great to anticipate. Hope the reality doesn't take the fun out of contentious history.
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posted on
12/26/2003 8:21:40 AM PST
by
Henchman
(I Hench, therefore I am!)
To: carpio
BTTT
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02/06/2004 5:42:31 PM PST
by
carpio
To: RightWhale
Medicis were entrepreneurs, made their fortune in business..... Well, at least in the beginning.
The history of the Medicis is a classic example of how inherited power and wealth has a corrupting influence on later generations.
If time travel were possible, it would be a pleasure and an honor to meet and converse with the likes of Cosimo and Lorenzo. As for the later Medicis, they evolved into a degenerate and parasitic ruling class.
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02/06/2004 6:01:58 PM PST
by
Polybius
To: blam
So? Did they find out anything? It's been three months already.
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02/06/2004 6:04:18 PM PST
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Cacique
To: Polybius
Heck you don't even have to go that far. Look at the clintons, they're degenerate and parasitic without having inherited anything.
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02/06/2004 6:06:11 PM PST
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Cacique
To: Cacique
"So? Did they find out anything? It's been three months already." I haven't see anything yet.
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02/06/2004 6:08:21 PM PST
by
blam
To: Cacique; blam
Bump for a re-read of this article.
Some results have come out of these investigations, ongoing, about the health of the Medicis. They say that they definitely had arthritis. They are working on the suspicion that one of them was poisoned.
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