When Ludwig was declared insane was he put in a mental hospital or just confined to one of his own residences? (I was wondering if there was any connection there.)
Over and over in this thread I keep hearing Paul Harvey’s voice in my mind: “And now you know . . . the rest of the story.”
All of them pikers compared to Paris Hilton, linked carnally albeit indirectly to John Holmes, Prince Charles, Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.
He was offered the position of President, but declined.
In 1887, five-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his sailor suit, visited the White House where he was introduced to President Grover Cleveland.
President Cleveland patted young FDR on the head and said, “My little man, I am making a strange wish for you: It is that you will never be president of the United States.”
hunter s thomson and richard milhouse nixon.
wierder though is churchill, roosevelt, stalin and chiang kai-shek
And start the German-American War?
Novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder went mountain climbing with boxer Gene Tunney. President Reagan’s Secretary of Education William Bennett went on a date with Janis Joplin in college. Ben Stein and Hillary Clinton were classmates in law school. Four U.S. presidents were in Dallas, Texas on Nov. 22, 1963 (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Bush Sr.)
Confined to his schloss.
The photo’s in several places, including (IIRC) David McCulloch’s bio of the Teddy Roosevelt’s early years. We know which house belonged to the wealthy Roosevelt’s, and in a picture of Lincoln’s funeral procession through NYC you can make out dark blobs that are undoubtedly heads in the windows of that house. It’s conjectured that one was the young Teddy (who wasn’t yet seven), and it seems likely enough, but we can’t know for sure.
During what I presume is the same US tour Sampiro mentions in the OP, Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman met and reportedly got on very well. And very naked.
William Bennett (conservative author) went on a date with Janis Joplin.
Now I will have to go sometime and take pictures for you.
I don’t know . . . I think Poe always dressed very well. Not expensively, but stylishly. He definitely was a man of taste and would put himself together well. The ladies liked Mr. Poe.
And Janis is right next to former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson in their high school yearbook. They were in the same graduating class in Port Arthur, Texas, though they ran in different circles and weren’t close friends.
Among Hillary and Bill’s other classmates at Yale Law School was conservative film critic and radio talk show host Michael Medved.
Back in their Yale days, Medved was much more liberal, and actually left law school to work for the McGovern campaign.
Even though he NOW disagrees with the Clintons about almost everything, Medved still has warm feelings for Bill, and still ADORES Hillary, whom he regards as one of the most delightful people he ever knew. He used to fill in for Rush Limbaugh now and then, and I frequently heard him defending her to callers who regarded her as the devil incarnate.
To callers who suggested that the Clintons’ marriage was merely one of convenience, Medved asserted that she was, in fact, head over heels in love with Bill from Day One. And to callers who suggested the Clintons were responsible for Vince Foster’s death, he said (correctly, I’m sure) that Bill Clinton COULDN’T kill anybody; that, if anything, his greatest flaw was that he wanted EVERYBODY to like him.
To hear Medved tell it, Hillary Rodham was everybody’s best friend at Yale, a virtual den mother to all her classmates.
Bush, Sr probably lived near enough to Dallas that can understand how he got there. JFK and LBJ were there to visit.
What the heck was Nixon doing in Dallas?
Ludwig II was taken into custody at the famous Neuschwanstein castle, and transported to a small castle on the shore of Lake Starnberg that had long been used as a sort of vacation home for the Bavarian royal family.
As you may know, Ludwig II did not live long after being declared insane. He went for a walk with his psychiatrist the evening after he arrived at Lake Starnberg and never returned. Both men were found dead on the lake that night. Ludwig II’s death was ruled a suicide, but the circumstances were suspicious and the truth may never be known. Anyway, I think having royalty confined to a hospital with commoners was one of those things that Wasn’t Done. Ludwig II’s younger brother Otto was severely mentally ill (likely schizophrenic) and had himself been placed under confinement at Fürstenried Palace several years earlier and remained there until his own death in 1916.
By the time Nietzsche had his own mental breakdown and was placed under psychiatric care, Ludwig II had already been dead for three years.
Hunter S Thompson and Richard Nixon shared a keen mutual interest in football, and were both very much focused on various issues of illegal drug abuse…
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were camping buddies.
No, that’s not a euphemism. They used to go on camping trips together as adults. One long-term result of these was the invention of the charcoal briquette.
Henry Ford and Anton Philips (fonder of the Philips giant of the Netherlands), were good friends. I used to have a picture showing the two of them in conversation.
Texas oilman George Bush and wife Barbara were on their way back to Houston after he spoke at a Rotary Club in Tyler, Texas. Former VP Richard Nixon had been in town as the guest of a national convention of Pepsi bottlers. His flight departed on the morning of Nov. 22, before the assassination.