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Tag Archives: Rudyard Kipling
secret agent: great game ethos
The cult of the secret agent. Despit the bling and action, the secret agent poses a menace to the open society… …The Great Game ethos of the professionals was reflected in the spy novels and a little later in the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Colonel Alfred Redl, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Erskine Childers, Hannah Adams Summary History of New England, James Fenimore Cooper, John Buchan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rudyard Kipling, The Dreyfus Affair, William Le Queux
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spy catchers and butterfly nets
…Whether the Great Game spirit filtered from the colonies into the metropolitan headquarters of the major European spy services, or whether it had roots at home as well, it became a dominant trait of the secret service mind in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, Hannah Adams Summary History of New England, Hannah Arendt, James Fenimore Cooper, Lord Robert Baden-Powell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, michael dunn actor, Michael Garrison, Robert Conrad, Ross Martin actor, Rudyard Kipling
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not a race to the exits: nagging misgivings
The War dragged on and a mood of disillusionment set in on both sides. For the Boers, it was the despondency of failure, but even more profound were the cracks in the foundation of what had been bedrock principle for … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle Boer War, Breaker Morant film, Edward Woodward singer, Jan Smuts Boer War, Kitchener of Khartoum Boer War, Koster Brothers Amsterdam, Louis Botha, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rudyard Kipling, The Boer War, Winston Churchill Boer War
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boer’n again but not so free
A ruinous price of victory. The British victory over the Boers more closely resembled defeat. It was the war that broke the imperial spirit… From many parts of the world young men volunteered to fight with the Boers: Germans, Frenchmen, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alphonse de Neuville, General Sir William Butler Boer War, Lloyd George The Boer War, Lord Kitchener Boer War, Louis Botha Boer War, Niall Ferguson, Paardeberg Boer War, Paul Kruger Boer War, Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling The Boer War, The Boer War, Timothy Parsons author, Winston Churchill Boer War
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boer’ing down on fatal doubt
The Boer War. A war that broke the imperial spirit which in the end, the victory of the British more closely resembled defeat. It was a war of striking personalities, forcefully imposed upon events. The story of the Boer War … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Baden-Powell Boer War, Cecil Rhodes South Africa, General Buller Boer War, General Redvers Buller Boer War, Jean Veber, Jean Veber cartoons, Kitchener of Khartoum Boer War, Lord Methuen Boer War, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mahatma Gandhi Boer War, Paul Kruger Boer War, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Boer War, Spion Kop Boer War, The Boer War, Winston Churchill Boer War
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boer’ed to death
The Boer War. It was the war that broke the imperial spirit. They got their gold and followed Cecil Rhodes financial intuition, dressed up some moral imperative, but in the end, after one colonial force defeated another on alien soil, … Continue reading
in the heart of the kush valley
Echoes of the “Aryans” … What is so striking about the Kafirs is that, thanks to their mountain defenses, they were able to preserve so many incredibly ancient cultural traditions. While the Zoroastrians and the Buddhists, each in their turn, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged A.R. Palwal, Emir Abdul Rahman Khan, Howard Marks Guardian, Jeremy Bernstein New York Times, Kafir Culture, Kafiri culture, Kafiri diet, Kalash Foundation, Kalash people, Kushistan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rudyard Kipling, Sir William McNaghton, Tablghi Islam
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kafiristan
The “Aryans” no longer exist; yet a distant murmur of their lost language lives still, spoken a handful from a tribe of Nuristanis… Some of the available evidence as to their cultural origin is certainly puzzling. They live in wooden … Continue reading
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