Stardate: 42859.2Original Air Date: June 19, 1989Writer: Tracy TorméDirector: Rob Bowman “An animal is always at its best when hunting… or hunted.” The Enterprise is in orbit around Antede III awaiting the arrival of two dignitaries to escort them to a conference on the planet Pacifica where they will be…
Poirot Review #10: Murder on the Orient Express (1934) by Agatha Christie
“The murderer is with us –on the train now…” (57). Written while on a dig at Arpachiyah, Nineveh in 1933, Dame Agatha Christie crafted her magnificent masterpiece Murder on the Orient Express which prominently features the world’s most wondrous train –the Orient Express– the intercontinental luxury railway which had captured…
The French Monarchy: House of Bourbon – Louis XV “The Beloved,” Louis XVI, and the French Revolution (1715-1792)
Louis XV (1715-1774) After Louis XVI’s sons, the “Grand Dauphin” and Louis Duke of Burgundy, both died while their father was still alive, along several other members of the royal family, when the old king finally shed his own mortal coil, the crown of France was passed down to Louis’s…
The French Monarchy: House of Bourbon – Henry IV “The Great,” Louis XIII, Louis XIV “The Sun King” (1589-1792)
Henry IV “The Great” “The Good King” (1589-1610) With the deaths of all of Henry II’s heirs –culminating in the assassination of Henry III– the House of Valois found itself in a succession crisis as the crown passed to a distant relative, Henry III’s named successor, his ninth cousin, Henry…