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Similar to The Able Doctor (1774), this print depicts "Hibernia" (Ireland) as a woman thrown on her back, her harp strings broken (recalling Ireland's harp symbol, while insinuating virgin rape and a broken hymen). Ireland had accrued massive debt and politicians were debating what measures recovery would require. Fourth Viscount George Townshend steps on "Hibernia's" right shoulder and remarks to 1st Earl George Macartney, "Sr. George we must keep her down." The latter adds, "[A]nd exert ourselves or she will be too strong for us." The artist depicts the lord of the Treasury, Jeremiah Dyson, as a black man named, "Mungo," a nickname he had received from the opposition leader, Isaac Barré. However, when Dyson –blamed for failing colonial policies in North America and Ireland –is shown pleading, "Don't forget poor Mungo my good Ld. N –h [Lord North]," Dyson's "blackness" stretches the ostensible point of reference (his failure to acquire an Irish pension). The print suggests that the desire to control "Hibernia" is linked to the desire to control the American colonies and the British West Indies, both its enslaved population and its "unruly" local governments, as well as the increasing number of black people in Great Britain. Catalog Record
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In this print, Lord Mansfield restrains "America," figured as an indigenous woman whose garments have been stripped to her waist. Lord North forces tea down her throat and John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, looks beneath her skirts. Britain's punitive response to the infamous Boston Tea Party –including the Boston Port Bill, which demanded that Boston repay the empire for the destroyed goods –is configured as sexual assault, with "France" and "Spain" looking on. "Britannia" covers her face in distress. "Martial Law" (far right) is personified as a man standing with his legs spread wide, holding a large phallic sword in his right hand. Catalog Record
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In this print, the author draws a stark contrast between the concerns of Britain's ministers and those of European monarchs. In the top frame, monarchs of France, Spain, Prussia, and Austria stand poised to dismember Britain's global empire in a "Treaty for the Partition of the Dominions of Great Britain." The bottom frame, by contrast, features British ministers so obsessed with their own domestic and imperial issues –from the Stamp Act repeal to Parliamentary legislation –that they remain unaware of the international plot. This contrast satirizes the nearsightedness of Britain's politicians, who faced a mounting imperial crisis abroad and ministerial instability at home in the wake of the Seven Years' War. It also captures the alienation by Britain of its key diplomatic partners, which would leave Britain without European allies in the American Revolution. Catalog Record
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We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918 - Department of Health and Human Services - January 2010 - In 1918-1919, the worst flu in recorded history killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. The U.S. death toll was 675,000 - five times the number of U.S. soldiers killed in World War I. Where did the 1918 flu come from? Why was it so lethal? What did we learn? - Study materials are available at http://www.avianflue.gov/weheardthebells/
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