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Index
Cover
Title Page
Preface
Introduction to the ebook edition 2011
Introduction to the print edition of 2007
Reviews of the print edition of 2007
Ancient and Medieval Meetings
c.540 BC: Cyrus the Great doesn’t know what to make of the Spartan Embassy
336 BC: Alexander meets Diogenes (who is not in the least impressed)
327 BC: Alexander meets the naked philosophers
c.264 BC: Ashoka the Great is converted to pacifism by Nigrodha
52 BC: Vercingetorix the Gaul surrenders to Caesar
385: Maximus executes Priscillian for his beliefs
452: Pope Leo I persuades Attila the Hun not to attack Rome
c.563: Columba preaches to Bridei, King of the Picts (and tells Nessie to behave)
1050: Macbeth goes on a pilgrimage and meets Pope Leo IX
c.1052: Edward the Confessor meets William the Bastard
1192: Richard the Lionheart meets Saladin’s brother
1274: Dante trembles when he sees Beatrice
Renaissance and Baroque Encounters (16th and 17th Centuries)
1520: Henry VIII wrestles Francis I
1521: Martin Luther and Frederick the Wise see each other at the Diet of Worms
1529: Zwingli and Luther argue about Communion
1553: Calvin denounces Michael Servetus
1556: John Dee interrogates John Philpott
1593: Elizabeth I meets Grace O’Malley the Pirate
1605: King James I interrogates Guy Fawkes
1617: Pocahontas is unimpressed by James I
1653: George Fox reduces Oliver Cromwell to tears
1671: Colonel Blood meets King Charles II
1675: Aurangzeb executes Guru Tegh Bahadur
Enlightenment Encounters (18th Century)
1746: Bonnie Prince Charlie gets advice from Lord Lovat after Culloden
1746: Flora MacDonald helps Bonnie Prince Charlie escape
1747: Frederick the Great shows J S Bach his piano
1752: Casanova meets Madame de Pompadour
1764: Boswell gets Voltaire out of bed
1766: Erasmus Darwin entices Rousseau with a flower
1773: Dr Johnson and Boswell stay with Flora MacDonald
1774: Edmund Burke is enraptured by Marie-Antoinette
1774: Joseph Priestley discusses dephlogisticated air with Antoine Lavoisier
1775: Robespierre makes a speech in the rain to Louis XVI
1776: Dr Johnson has dinner with John Wilkes
1777: Patrick Ferguson is told he decided not to shoot George Washington
1777: The Marquis de Sade insults Count Mirabeau
1781: Benjamin Franklin invites Catherine Dashkova to join the American Philosophical Society
1786: Walter Scott is impressed by the eyes of Robert Burns
1788: Olaudah Equiano presents a petition to Queen Charlotte
1792: Joseph Brant rejects a bribe from George Washington
1793: Charlotte Corday assassinates Marat
1797: Napoleon invites Tom Paine to dinner and asks him how to invade England
Regency and Victorian Encounters (19th Century)
1805: Sir Arthur Wellesley sees two sides of Nelson
1810: Tom Molineaux fights Tom Cribb
1812: Beethoven meets Goethe and snubs the Austrian Empress
1814: Harriette Wilson chats up Lord Byron
1815: Jane Austen visits the Prince Regent’s librarian
1817: Benjamin Haydon hosts the ‘Immortal Dinner’
1822: San Martin and Simon Bolivar meet behind closed doors
1827: Schubert visits Beethoven on his deathbed
1840: Sir Moses Montefiore meets Sultan Abdülmecid to discuss the ‘Damascus Affair’
1842: Edgar Allan Poe asks Charles Dickens to help him get published
1854: John Lang speaks to Lakshmibai through a curtain
1855: James Barry is nasty to Florence Nightingale
1855: Robert Browning is unentranced by Daniel Dunglas Home
1855: Mary Seacole gets a Bed for the Night from Florence Nightingale
1856: Lola Montez tries to horsewhip Henry Seekamp
1860: Richard Burton jokes about wives with Brigham Young
1863: John Wilkes Booth refuses to meet Abraham Lincoln
1864: Garibaldi plants a tree for the Tennysons
1871: Wagner fails to get funding from Bismarck
1876: Robert Ingersoll inspires Lew Wallace
1879: Lew Wallace promises to pardon Billy the Kid
1882: Oscar Wilde gets a kiss from Walt Whitman
1886: Geronimo surrenders to General Miles
1887: Queen Victoria tells Black Elk what would happen if the Lakota were her subjects
1889: Nellie Bly Meets Jules Verne and gets a kiss (from Mme. Verne)
1890: Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement share a room
From One World War to Another (20th Century to 1945)
1900: Winston Churchill and Winston S. Churchill discuss their names
1906: Mark Twain meets Maxim Gorky and talk of making Russia free
1910: Patrick Pearse thinks Arnold Bax is ‘one of us’
1914: Gavrilo Princip shoots the Archduke Ferdinand and his Duchess
1914: Pancho Villa shares a photo opportunity with Emiliano Zapata
1918: Fanny Kaplan shoots Lenin
1920: Lenin disappoints Bertrand Russell
1922: W E Johns enlists Aircraftman Ross
1922: Proust, Joyce, Diaghilev, Stravinsky and Picasso share a night at the Majestic
1923: Thomas Hardy entertains the Prince of Wales
1927: The Einsteins visit the Freuds
1931: Gandhi meets Chaplin in a Christian pacifist centre
1933: Giussepe Zangara shoots at President Franklin Roosevelt
1936: Adolf Hitler waves to Jesse Owens
1937: The Windsors meet Hitler and the Duke gives a Nazi salute
1938: Salvador Dali sketches Sigmund Freud
1939: Abel Meeropol sings ‘Strange Fruit’ to Billie Holliday
1940: Franco and Hitler confer in a train
1945: L Ron Hubbard possibly meets Aleister Crowley
Modern Times (20th Century from 1946)
1946: Wittgenstein possibly waves a poker at Popper
1946: Beryl Formby tells Daniel Malan to piss off
1948: Mary McCarthy reprimands Lillian Hellman
1956: Eric Newby meets Wilfred Thesiger in a mountain pass in Afghanistan
1958: Luis Bunuel asks Alec Guinness to be his lead actor
1960: Fidel Castro wins the Ernest Hemingway prize
1963: Josephine Baker stands beside Martin Luther King
1963: Bill Clinton shakes the hand of President John F Kennedy
1965: Elvis Presley jams with the Beatles
1978: Alec Guinness has lunch with ‘M’
1985: Jackie Kennedy pops downstairs to meet Princess Diana
1985: Kurt Waldheim punches John Simpson in the stomach
2000: Sami Al-Arian promises to support George W. Bush
Copyright
About Edwin Moore
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