More or less, the musings of a graduate of a Scottish university, born in New York, formerly resident in South Africa, and now living in London.
@cusackandrew: Visited Erskine Childers' old regiment in London tonight. His name on the Boer War roll of honour was pointed out with ironic pride.

The Kaiser Karl Soldiers’ Homes

An unexecuted design. The architect later designed a number of housing projects during the First Austrian Republic.

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  1. 24 November 2008
    11:33 am

    Replaced by the wretched republic with various and sundry “Karl Marx” houses instead.
    I must say though that it is not traditional to name such places after reigning monarchs. I suspect that Franz, last Holy Roman, and first Austrian Emperor, would have raised an eyebrow at such goings-on.

    Baron v Senden
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