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Book reviews: The Indian Mutiny 1857: The Indian mutiny and the bounty
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The Indian Mutiny 1857
Saul David
Viking, GBP 20
DURING the Indian Mutiny, native mercenaries caught and found
guilty of sedition were often executed by being blown from cannons.
Some 40 guns might be lined up wheel to wheel, while 40 sepoys
awaited their fate. The gun was primed with powder but no shot. The
prisoners were led to the gun and tied by the wrists to the upper
part of the gun's wheels. Their bodies were draped over the barrel,
so that the muzzle pressed into the pit of their stomachs. The order
was then given to fire the guns in unison. When the smoke cleared,
one noticed that ...
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BREAD AND CIRCUSES
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...THE BAAL-WORSHIPING ROMAN EMPEROR HELIOGABALUS WANTED TO KICK IT UP A NOTCH, HE WOULD...HEADS. LIKE A LOT OF ANCIENT RULERS, HELIOGABALUS WAS A CREEP, A CRUEL AND GLUTTONOUS...WEALTH TO FOLLOW HIS GASTRONOMIC BLISS. Heliogabalus would have loved the Food Network...
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SOUND CHECK - NEW ALBUM REVIEWS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...EXPERIMENTAL John Zorn Six Litanies For Heliogabalus (Tzadik) Experimental chameleon John...this album, Zorn's new target is Heliogabalus, a Roman emperor recognized more for...album itself is fascinating because Heliogabalus is instrumentally depicted as scum...
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ART; NIGHT & DAY.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...his most ambitious pictures, for instance, The Roses of Heliogabalus. It's inspired by one of the most bizarre and cruel episodes...Roman history, an occasion on which the 3rd Century emperor Heliogabalus had such a mountain of rose petals dropped on his minions...
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The healing dialogues of doctor Bullein.(A Dialogue ... Against the Fever Pestilence)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies
; ...is described as a spiritual follower of the Roman emperor Heliogabalus (sig. B1r), an epicurean with a scandalous sex life...minds of Bullein's first readers the extended attack on Heliogabalus in Thomas Elyot's The Image of Governance, a fictionalized...
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BOOKS: Paperbacks by Murrough O'Brien - An emperor crushed by the juggernaut of exposition Boy Caesar By Jeremy Reed PETER OWEN pounds 11.95
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...way to catastrophe, the strange, androgynous figure of Heliogabalus has seemed to many chroniclers barely worth a mention. But...From the outset, he is determined to root the world of Heliogabalus in the now, so images drawn from technology abound. But...
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Everything comes up roses
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times
; ...his banquet guests with rose petals. Fourteen-year-old Heliogabalus got carried away celebrating the beginning of his reign in...The painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema of The Roses of Heliogabalus is reproduced with an observation of how relaxed the revellers...
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Cookbooks of antiquity bring a feast of facts to N.Y. exhibit
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...attributed (probably mistakenly) to Apicius and named for the Roman emperor Varius, more commonly known as Heliogabalus. Heliogabalus "is primarily remembered as a deranged, sadistic and extravagant tyrant" who has been depicted as feasting...
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MUSIC
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...dreamscapes acted as a perfect bridge to Henze's dazzling Heliogabalus Imperator (after Antonin Artaud), composed in the early...from the mountains") and those around him. Musically, Heliogabalus Imperator is both sensual and provocative, a protean tour...
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Good year rubbed up wrong way
Newspaper article from: New Truth & TV Extra
; ...SOMETIME during his short but weird reign, Roman emperor Heliogabalus was said to have offered a huge prize to anyone who could...as a new vice but Goodyear could probably have claimed the Heliogabalus prize if only he'd been around 1600 years earlier. The...
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Glimpse into the ancient world
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...art started to become fashionable again. `The Roses of Heliogabalus' is the star of the Amsterdam show, a privately owned painting which has not been exhibited since 1888. Heliogabalus, one of Rome's most decadent emperors, is depicted...
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