Saturday, September 08, 2007
RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA POST
BRENNUS- 2 kings/cheifs of the celtic guals. the 1st, crossed the apennines into italy, leader of 70,000 senones, and ravaged Etruria 391 bc. romans sent to watch their movements. were said to have particapated by the walls of Clusium, failing to get their surrender,marched for rome. a roman army of 40,000 hastily sent to meet them and laid wait on the little river allia, here brennus attacked and defeated the romans, and if he had gone on to rome, it would have fallen, but they mutilated the dead, drank, and celebrated. rome able to occupy and provision. the women and children sent to Veii. on 3rd day Guals took rome, occupied only by the aged patricians, who stayed to defend their stuff.(get off my lawn!). the guals for awhile admired this, but then rome sacked and all were slaughtered. rome then burned, but the capital stood and lasted the seige. saved one night by the sacred geese and marcus manlius. guals accepted 1000lbs of gold as ransom(if iWaq gave us 10,000,000 barrels could we leave them in peace?)
as it was being weighed, a roman tribune complaining, brennus threw out his heavy sword onto the scale. when asked why, replied 'Vœ Victis"-the weakest must go to the wall. left with their plunder.
2nd brennus-said to be one of the leaders of an inroad(?) made by the guals from east of the adriatic into thrace and macedonia 280 bc. when they defeated and slew Ptolemy Ceraunus, king of the macedonians. this first conquest led B to urge them to a 2nd expedition, where he marched w/ an army of 150,000 foot and 60,000 horse thru macedonia, defeating who they found and continued to thessaly, ravaged as he went, til reaching the historic pass of thermopylae. the united north greece forces, athenians,phocians, beotians and aetolians, held here, but betrayed by locals and fought them to delphi, who put up a valiant defense and better ground, B wounded and they took flight, pursued all the way to thermopylae. B killed himself, for pain of wounds or defeat.
BRETANO, Clemons- german dramatist and novelist. b 1777. frankfort-on-the-maine. his sister Elizabeth, the well known Bettina Von Arnam, gothe correspondent(i did her right? only reason i am doing him. d 1842
BRESSLAU-cirt of prussia. capital of SILESIA
BREVIARIUM ALARICANUM-collection of roman law compiled by order of alaric II, king of the visigoths blah blah blah...
BREWING- 264-275
BRICK-279-283 illustration!
BRIDGES- 284-341. no brooklyn, but that will be addressed under brooklyn. famous bridges illustrated and the theory of building them laid out.
BRIL, Paul flemish painter 1554-1626
BRINDLEY, James b 1716. celebrated engineer. humble parents(dirt poor). little or no education. at 17 apprenticed to a millwright and while there, manifested remarkable mechanical talent. set up own bizness after apprenticing and quickly became famous for ingenuity and skill repairing all kinds of machinery. in 1752, he designed and set up an engine for draining some coal pits at clifton. 3 year later, he extended his reputation by completing the machinery for a silk-mill at congleton. about 1754, B became aquainted w/ Duke of Bridgewater + an arrangement was made for B to carry out the duke's scheme of inland navigation. to carry coal from duke's estate at worsley to manchester. thru all difficulties, B's genius did it. by canal. the grand trunk canal. soon more canals. B's excessive toil broke his strength and d at 56 in 1772.
when faced with a problem, he would retire to bed and stay til the solution came to him.
BRISTOL, england-3+ pages blah blah blah king this king that king
painting by BRIL. dang i got the power, why NOT illustrate artists?
