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Reposting this meme, as promised. 
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Indulge my curiosity please?) Tell me 28 things about YOU!

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1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?
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Musique actuelle:
Jerome Kern
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Yekaterina Alyeksevevna

"Catherine the Great"

in her coronation robes

wearing  the Imperial Crown,
after having staged a coup against her husband
had him killed
and usurped the Russian Throne
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The Russian Imperian Crown
5000 brilliants and a huge egg-size ruby
Catherine the Great
had it made for herself because,
having usurped the throne,
she was afraid to wear the real crown,
the "Cap of Monomakh"
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The Cap of Monomakh

the real crown of the Muscovite Tsars.
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An ikon
of Saint Nicholas II, the Martyr Tsar,
wearing the Cap of Monomakh
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Dom Pedro II
Emperor of Brazil
1825 – 1891
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Dom Pedro II
Emperor of Brazil
and his eldest daughter
Donna Isabella de Braganza
The Imperial Crown-Princess
1846-1921
at the time of their official visit to the USA
for the Centennial of American Independence
1876
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Gaston d'Orléans
Comte d'Eu
Third Grandson of King Louis-Philippe
1842-1922
(In the uniform of a Brazilian Field-Marshal)
He married the Brazilian Crown-Princess in 1864
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Louis-Charles-Philippe d' Orléans
Duc de Nemours
Enfant de France
1814-1896
Second son of King Louis-Philippe
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His son Gaston married the Imperial Princess of Brazil.
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France's Last King
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and his wife,
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Queen Marie-Amélie
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née Princesse of the Two Sicilies
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France's Last Queen.
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The Brazilian Imperial family at the Château d' Eu in 1912.  Seated at centre is Donna Isabella de Braganza, the Imperial Princess, eldest daughter and heir of Emperor Dom Pedro II.  The goateed gentleman on her right is her husband, Prince Gaston d' Orléans, Comte d' Eu, Enfant de France. The little baby held by the lady standing on back is Isabelle d'Orléans-Bragance (1911-2003), later wife of the Comte de Paris and mother to the present Comte de Paris. (The Comte de Paris is the de-jure King of France.)
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The little boy once held by Donna Isabella
Dom Pedro Gaston d'Orléans-Braganza
Prince of  Grão-Pará
(d. 2007)
with his two younger grandsons
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A communiqué from the French Royal Family Agency ( L' Institut de la Maison Royale de France) has announced that His Imperial Highness Prince Pierre-Louis d'Orléans-Bragance, 26, was among those killed in the crash of AirFrance Flight 447, in which 228 persons lost their lives.
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Brazilian Emperor Pedro II's eldest daughter and heir married a French royal prince in 1864, and all Brazilian Imperial princes have been members of the French Royal Family ever since.
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Prince Pedro Luiz Maria José Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga d'Orléans e Bragança, fourth in the Brazilian order of succession, was a great-great-great grandson of Brazilian Emperor Pedro II and  a great-great-great-great-great grandson of France's last reigning monarch, King Louis-Philippe .
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His father was Dom Antonio, a Brazilian Imperial Prince. His mother was Princess Christine de Ligne, a granddaughter of the reigning Grand-Duchesse of Luxembourg and a great-great-granddaughter of Dom Miguel, King of Portugal, brother of Brazilian Emperor Pedro I and  uncle of Emperor Pedro II.
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Recollections of Love
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How warm this woodland wild Recess !
Love surely hath been breathing here ;
And this sweet bed of heath, my dear !
Swells up, then sinks with faint caress,
As if to have you yet more near.
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Eight springs have flown, since last I lay
On sea-ward Quantock's heathy hills,
Where quiet sounds from hidden rills
Float hear and there, like things astray,
And high o'er head the sky-lark shrills.
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No voice as yet had made the air
Be music with your name ; yet why
That asking look ? that yearning sigh ?
That sense of promise every where ?
Belovéd ! flew your spirit by ?
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As when a mother doth explore
The rose-mark on her long-lost child,
I met, I loved you, brother mild !
As whom I long had loved before--
So deeply had I been beguiled.
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You stood before me like a thought,
A dream remembered in a dream.
But when those green eyes first did seem
To tell me, Love within you wrought—
O lovely, dear domestic stream !
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Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep,
Has not Love's whisper evermore
Been ceaseless, as thy gentle roar ?
Sole voice, when other voices sleep,
Dear under-song in clamor's hour.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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...Little Miss Laura had no eyes for any of this. She liked the fact that the estate should not end at the coffee-planted hills, or even that, beyond them, there was the forest and the lake, meeting in a seemingly forbidden tryst.  Little Miss Laura would climb up on the roof to make out, far away, the quicksilvered crystal of the lake, as her literary aunt Virginia called it, and never asked herself why the prettiest things in the place were, as well, the least close, the farthermost from her hand, which the girl extended as if to touch, granting all the power in the world to her own desire. All the victories of her childhood were given over to the imagination. The lake. A verse.


Carlos Fuentes: The Years With Laura Díaz (1999)
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A UN POETA MENOR DE LA ANTOLOGÍA
To a Minor Poet  of the Greek Anthology
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¿Dónde está la memoria de los días
Where is the memory of days
que fueron tuyos en la tierra, y tejieron
that were yours on this earth, and wove
dicha y dolor y fueron para tí el universo?
sooth and sorrow and were for you the whole universe?
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El río numerable de los años
The numerable river of years
los ha perdido; eres una palabra en un indíce.
has mislaid them; you are but a word in an index.
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Dieron a otros gloria interminable los dioses,
To others gave the gods glory interminable,
inscripciones y exergos y monumentos y puntuales historiadores;
inscriptions and exerga and monuments and reliable historians;
de ti sólo sabemos, oscuro amigo,
of you we only know, obscure friend,
que oíste al ruiseñor, una tarde.
that you heard the nightingale, one afternoon.
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Entre los asfodelos de la sombra, tu vana sombra
In among the shaded asphodels, your futile shade
pensará que los dioses han sido avaros.
perhaps thinks that the gods have been ungenerous.
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Pero los días son una red de triviales miserias,
But all days are a net of trivial ashes,
¿y habrá suerte mejor que ser la ceniza
and can there be greater fortune than being the ash
de que está hecho el olvido?
from which oblivion is made?
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Sobre otros arrojaron los dioses
Upon others heaped the gods
la inexorable luz de la gloria,
the inexorable light of glory
que mira las entrañas y enumera las grietas
that  examines entrails and lists the cracks
de la gloria, que acaba por ajar la rosa que venera;
of glory, and ends up wearing down the rose it worships;
contigo fueron más piadosos, hermano.
with you they were more compassionate, my brother.
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En el éxtasis de un atardecer que no será una noche,
In the ecstasy of twighlight that will never be night,
oyes la voz del ruiseñor de Teócrito.
you can hear the voice of Theocritus' nightingale.
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The asphodel, a kind of lily, was said to fill the plains of Hades, the Greek underworld. A favourite food of the dead, the Ancient Greeks would often plant it near graves. It was sacred to Persephone, daughter of Demeter, forcefully taken to the underworld by Hades.
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Theocritus, creator of Greek bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century, BC.
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