<<BLING? I see no gold chains, braclets, rings (excepting wedding) etc, etc>>
gold would be gaudy, i fear, and wedding ring too revealing, and so could be inconvenient :0)
and so a platinum family ring (paternal grandma's family - her naval-oriented ancestors thrived on piracy against the rich, and anti-piracy against anglos, and battling islamic terrorism, but not to the death, the anglos, just for the joy of it, and ) and a steel bodied and platinum bezel-ed watch had to do :0)
 - "tout ou rien" be the apparent way, but, always to be remembered, never ever to the death, just enough for a laugh or two
the family oral history passed down by various relations, along with the trademark, and branding logo, and paperwork referenced from evil british colonial office enabled clarifications here and there
the ganteaume guy who got the branding had captained the real version of this model "muiron" frigate (model used to be in the emperor's study, now atr maritime museum in paris) - the same family had also served to help secure american freedom from the british by way of french naval intervention
the army officer muiron saved napolean's life, died in the act, and got a frigate named after him, which was captained by grandma's forebear, who again saved napolean in egypt (who presumably just got done taming the islamic extremists:0) from the evil british pirates doing a blockade, the same who cannot even prepare a good and civilized and cultured meal;
after escape enabled by antecedent, napolean became emperor for a bit, and rewarded savior with perpetual mention on the southside of the arc
grandma married my grandpa (whose immediate antecedents thrived on, you guessed it, piracy, rebellion, and escape in the scratching nick of time from china) in trinidad, after which grandpa sent grandma and kids to england, so that he may return to china on own, to battle the evil british and stare down the american puppet wilson
time.com
"The new and conquering Nationalist Government of South China continued last week the slow encirclement by its armies of the great international city of Shanghai.
The Nationalist Foreign Minister Eugene Chen, issued a proclamation: "A great and impressive fact must be grasped by all: the Chinese question now is not what Great Britain and other powers may wish to grant China to meet 'the legitimate aspirations of the Chinese'; but the question is what China may justly grant to Great Britain and the other powers."
As the Chinese Dragon thus breathed defiance to the world, the British Lion wavered almost ludicrously irresolute last week...."
you must note how the bs of time magazine back then tallies with the same magazine of today, til the empire's end, soon enough, and be done with.
in the mean time my daughter is getting quite confused about all her cousins we have visited and been visited by, stretching from venezuela to usa to finland to france to england to china to korea and japan :0) |
