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Aside from Roman dictators, how many governments have formally been entitled "dictatorship" (either in English or its equivalent in another language), and/or how many government officials have formally held the title of "dictator"? Dictator#Modern usage in formal titles mentions three examples, but I'm unclear whether this is exhaustive, or if they're just three random examples. Of course, keyword searches are extremely difficult, since "dictator" is a title informally applied to many government leaders. Nyttend ( talk) 00:38, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
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Our article David Lloyd George contains a quotation from Bonar Law, "He can be dictator for life if he wishes", dated to 1918 and sourced to a 2011 magazine article by Vernon Bogdanor. Can anyone help me find an earlier source for it? It's not in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, nor yet in Brack and Ingham's Dictionary of Liberal Quotations. Thank you, DuncanHill ( talk) 10:05, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Had not Bonar Law himself declared a short while before that Lloyd George, if he wanted to, could be Prime Minister for life?- which obviously isn't good enough to pinpoint the quote, but might suggest that it didn't really originally include "dictator". The context of "a short while before" seems to be the 1918 United Kingdom general election. Card Zero (talk) 10:23, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
By common consent, the victory belonged to one man — Lloyd George, and to him, alone. These were the new realities that prompted Bonar Law to make his remarkable observation about a man who, in the past, had been his opponent but who was now his partner. Surveying this radically changed, this ironically changed, political landscape, Bonar Law said of Lloyd George: “He can be Prime Minister for life if he likes”.This seems to place the quote after the election. There's a footnote which cites Lord Beaverbrook, Men and Power: 1917-1918 (New York 1956), p. 325. Card Zero (talk) 10:54, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Why do piano lessons books often teach children the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (even if that's what the children know the tune technically is) as "Merrily We Roll Along"?? (Interestingly enough, Wikipedia itself reveals there's a song with the latter title, but it clearly isn't the same song at all; the song piano lessons books teach children when they teach children the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is clearly a song that goes:
...which clearly isn't the song Wikipedia's article is about. (Please keep in mind that what I want to know is why "Merrily We Roll Along" is a lyric favored over "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in piano lessons books.) Georgia guy ( talk) 17:57, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
For reasons which I won't go into here, I think that “Good-Night, Ladies” was the first, and “Mary’s Lamb” the second, setting of this now well-known air. But where did the Yale boys of the 1860's get the air?and suggests there was probably earlier sheet music now lost. He also hints at a possible answer for Georgia guy with
This setting [Mason's], now traditional in England, is not the setting which is traditional on this side of the Atlantic...fiveby( zero) 12:20, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
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Aside from Roman dictators, how many governments have formally been entitled "dictatorship" (either in English or its equivalent in another language), and/or how many government officials have formally held the title of "dictator"? Dictator#Modern usage in formal titles mentions three examples, but I'm unclear whether this is exhaustive, or if they're just three random examples. Of course, keyword searches are extremely difficult, since "dictator" is a title informally applied to many government leaders. Nyttend ( talk) 00:38, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
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Our article David Lloyd George contains a quotation from Bonar Law, "He can be dictator for life if he wishes", dated to 1918 and sourced to a 2011 magazine article by Vernon Bogdanor. Can anyone help me find an earlier source for it? It's not in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, nor yet in Brack and Ingham's Dictionary of Liberal Quotations. Thank you, DuncanHill ( talk) 10:05, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Had not Bonar Law himself declared a short while before that Lloyd George, if he wanted to, could be Prime Minister for life?- which obviously isn't good enough to pinpoint the quote, but might suggest that it didn't really originally include "dictator". The context of "a short while before" seems to be the 1918 United Kingdom general election. Card Zero (talk) 10:23, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
By common consent, the victory belonged to one man — Lloyd George, and to him, alone. These were the new realities that prompted Bonar Law to make his remarkable observation about a man who, in the past, had been his opponent but who was now his partner. Surveying this radically changed, this ironically changed, political landscape, Bonar Law said of Lloyd George: “He can be Prime Minister for life if he likes”.This seems to place the quote after the election. There's a footnote which cites Lord Beaverbrook, Men and Power: 1917-1918 (New York 1956), p. 325. Card Zero (talk) 10:54, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Why do piano lessons books often teach children the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (even if that's what the children know the tune technically is) as "Merrily We Roll Along"?? (Interestingly enough, Wikipedia itself reveals there's a song with the latter title, but it clearly isn't the same song at all; the song piano lessons books teach children when they teach children the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is clearly a song that goes:
...which clearly isn't the song Wikipedia's article is about. (Please keep in mind that what I want to know is why "Merrily We Roll Along" is a lyric favored over "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in piano lessons books.) Georgia guy ( talk) 17:57, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
For reasons which I won't go into here, I think that “Good-Night, Ladies” was the first, and “Mary’s Lamb” the second, setting of this now well-known air. But where did the Yale boys of the 1860's get the air?and suggests there was probably earlier sheet music now lost. He also hints at a possible answer for Georgia guy with
This setting [Mason's], now traditional in England, is not the setting which is traditional on this side of the Atlantic...fiveby( zero) 12:20, 4 July 2023 (UTC)