] ] Seriously, here is an explosive political subject to be sure, for both our time and Regency time. And one that involves characters across the board, such as Napoleon, Byron, Shelley, Keats, George Cruikshank, Lady Emma Hamilton, Grenville, Thomas Hardy, Nelson, William Pitt the Younger, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Talleyrand, Turner and Benjamin West!

] How? I am dying to know how they were involved with Elgin's marble-theft. As exciting as Linden's quiz question. I await in eager anticipation.

] PS.Muff, hope they sealed rather than stole your patio and that it is now tornado-proof.