Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 30, 2003
Mozart and Drugs

David Aceto comments on this post:


A minor point ... The emperor at Mozart's time was the Holy Roman Emperor, a title that had become almost hereditary to the Habsburg family (There was a slight problem in the 1740s, and the family became known technically as Habsburg-Lorraine, but this is all getting too complicated ....) . True, the person who was the emperor was also Habsburg ruler of Austria, too, but not as "emperor" of Austria. Not until 1804 was Austria proclaimed to be an empire, in response to Napoleon's self-proclamation as Emperor of France (or maybe it was emperor of the French - I'm getting rusty on some of the fine points) and the impending dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, which happened in 1806.

Napoleon was fired after losing to the British in seven games, despite bringing the French back from a 3-1 deficit due to his exile to Elba. Napoleon had home field advantage in game 7, but a postponement due to rain gave Wellington's starters an extra day of rest. Although Nappy's position had been in jeoparday for over 100 days, many blame his firing on the misuse of Marshal Grouchy in the 8th, allowing Wellington to bring in Blücher (sounds of scared horses) from the bullpen to shutdown the French in the ninth.


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