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“... the choir vault in the magnificent basilica of El Pilar in Zaragoza. Yet in 1781 his fresco of Mary, Queen of Martyrs for the basilica was rejected by the building committee – a slight he didn’t forget. To make matters worse, the church authorities appealed to his mentor and brother-in-law, Francisco Bayeu, to touch up the unhappy composition. Goya’s ...”

“... support for the gruelling campaign in the Iberian peninsula of his fellow Irishman Arthur Wellesley, later the First Duke of Wellington; created the grand alliance which defeated Napoleon; superintended the restoration of the old order; and initiated the postwar congress system in international relations. Europe had been devastated by two decades of ...”

“... in Boston, a medium spoke in the presence of Mrs William James of a communication from a ‘Mary’ to Henry, the message was dutifully passed on to Henry James in England, who wrote that it was his ‘dear Mother’s unextinguished consciousness breaking through the interposing vastness of the universe and pouncing upon the first occasion helpfully to ...”

“... what is occurring. On 10 February 1933 he was taken to a recital given by the great Paderewski at Wellesley College: ‘They say he is not what he was – old and tired, “out of step with the decade”, playing Bach as if it was Chopin, and plays Chopin as nobody else can; I wondered all the time what he thought of it, a tired man trying to make ...”