I haven’t had as much fun as I had at the What Cheer Brigade’s show since I don’t know when. This 18-piece marching band out of Providence, RI, is a horn-blaring, drum-booming riot, just like those formed during the 13th century, when trumpeters were joined by “kettledrums louder than the roar of a runaway Mack [...]
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In one of those rare moments that brings together a handful of entries found in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France met for a month-long gilded romp in 1520, cementing their friendship. In an otherwise deserted area of France, near Calais, a gold-covered temporary palace was built. Pavilions draped [...]
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