and he was commanding – the Army of Sambre and Meuse and the Army of the Orient.
He is Jean-Baptiste Kléber as he stands in Strasbourg, his native city.
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He looks commanding
Author: eklastic
Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.
Babe in the woods
His consolation may be that The saying is written on the inside wall of the Rote Moschee (red mosque) in the palace gardens of the Schwetzinger Castle. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Lone
Get Smart!
Maxine Smart was a spy with a special zeal. In her career she had installed microphones in teapots, snail shells, in villas and cottages. But this was the ultimate undercover case. She would expose the agent from Botswana, rescue the former president of SWAPO from Namibia and with one foul swoop secure a year’s production of diamonds from Orapa. It would make her immortal!
Can You Tell a Story in … 64 words including zeal, microphone, snail, cottage, immortal, teapot
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He lived it
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
— Nelson Mandela
NB: I have no idea why that person, a fan at a rugby game, wore Mandela’s name on the no. 7 jersey. The famous jersey Nelson Mandela wore at the 1995 world cup was that of the captain Francois Pienaar, i.e. no. 6.
Wednesday Quotes: Conquering Fear
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Ringed teal
Wordless Wednesday
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Can you see the culprits?
At least that’s some of them. But every little helps, especially if they appear in great numbers, like cars.
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Baa baa black-and-white sheep
Monochrome Madness has a free theme this week. And the recent Easter scenes let me think of sheep. I didn’t know sheep could sit like that. Oooops, wait … nevermind.
What Oscar said
“I can resist everything except temptation.” – Oscar Wilde
FOWC with Fandango: Temptation
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