Why was Frederick V, Elector Palatine like John Philip Sousa?
(The first correct answer wins a recreational math post on any subject you choose.)
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I’m going to say “known for his marches” based on a pun on march.Report
They each had unfortunate facial hair?Report
Prefect pitch?Report
One was known as the Winter King, and the other as the March King?Report
Mr Cain FTW.Report
That’s just because you’ve never heard Frederick V sing.Report
That’s nothing, you should hear him play pianner.Report
Let’s see… (1) I like some version of Chris’s answer, say “Sousa had perfect pitch and Frederick had prefect pitch.” At least according to Wikipedia, Sousa did have absolute pitch. (2) Do I get to write the post?Report
1. Perfect pitch is how Sousa is like Pedro Martinez.
2. If you’d like to write a post, of course.Report
If you’d like to write a post, of course.
I actually wrote it some time back, although it wants significant editing. But the math posts were your thing, and submitting it as a candidate guest post always felt like it would be horning in. Now that I’ve wangled an invitation, though…Report
Dude, I can’t speak for Tod, Burt, Mark, et al., but I’m pretty sure that for you, the invitation is an open one.Report
You can email it to me at mike dot s dot schilling at gmail dot com.Report
@chris , thank you for the kind words, but at least IMO, I don’t have that much to say, and I don’t say it well enough, to assume the invitation. I have two math posts I want to write; after the first, we’ll see if Mr. Schilling is willing to let me do the other.Report
I don’t have that much to say, and I don’t say it well enough, to assume the invitation.
Not sure you really get what blogging is all about.Report
Not sure you really get what blogging is all about.
Oh, I wouldn’t let those things stop me on my blog, and don’t let them stop me often enough in comments, but a guest post should have slightly higher standards.Report
You beat me to it, @michael-cain — I actually knew this one!
But only because I read The Baroque Cycle (which has lots of references to the fallout of Frederick and Elizabeth Stuart’s politically inconvenient fecundity) and saw a lot of Monty Python as a kid and asked my dad where the theme music came from.Report
I was in band in high school and we did weekly concerts in the park during the summer — Sousa was popular.Report
To whom was their fecundity politically inconvenient? I’m guessing the Catholic Stuarts, because the succession went through the 12th of their 13 children. If they’d had fewer, their would have been no Protestant royally available.Report
Yeah, that’s a big part of it. No particular reason for England having to go to Hanover for a king, except for that religion issue admired with the complex bloodlines. Or, several years earlier, to get a queen who came with a whole load of Dutch baggage at a time it seemed like it would have made sense to find common cause with France to keep the Netherlands in check.Report