Would you rather eat sweetbread or sweetmeat?| Shannon Selin
The 20 Questions game was introduced to Americans through British Prime Minister George Canning. Let's sit in on a game he played in 1823.| Shannon Selin
Though King George IV hated Canning, the Tories couldn’t stay in power without him.| Shannon Selin
Sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued, Princess Dorothea Lieven exercised more influence on post-Napoleonic affairs than any other woman of her generation.| Shannon Selin
Beginning at age 50, 6th US President John Quincy Adams went swimming almost every summer in the Potomac River in Washington, DC. Once he nearly drowned.| Shannon Selin
Lord Liverpool (Robert Banks Jenkinson) was an accomplished prime minister of Great Britain during the Napoleonic era, though not exactly a social success.| Shannon Selin