Oddly, Not Getting a Vanity Fair Cover

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[High Praise! to Freedom Is Just Another Word]

Although my knowledge of transvestism also includes Flip Wilson and Milton Berle.

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  1. As it happens, I am, if not an opera lover, at least somebody who attends operas (I bought my tickets for next year’s Des Moines Metro Opera season today, in fact), and I think that one of the reasons is the use of music from operas, particularly The Barber of Seville, in Warner Brothers cartoons. On those rare occasions when people who have never attended an opera ask me which one I think is a good choice, The Barber of Seville is always my recommendation, because they’ll probably recognize the tunes, and it’s also a great opera.

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  2. A bit of trivia:

    Foreign arms dealers were an important source for firearms in the American Revolution. Prussian, Dutch and even British dealers supplied some guns, but the major source of imported arms was France. Still smarting from their defeat at the hands of the British in the French and Indian Wars and the loss of Canada and their other possessions, the French government was not unwilling to help the colonies with arms. To this end a dummy company, Roderigue Hortalez et Cie., was set up. The managing director of this enterprise was Pierre Augustin de Caron, who assumed the name Beaumarchais and is perhaps today better known for his literary works, The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, than for his efforts on behalf of the new nation. Beaumarchais was directly responsible to the French foreign minister, the Count of Vergennes.

    — http://notorc.blogspot.com/2006/11/guns-of-american-revolution-setting.html

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