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Hello Stuart,

I was quite surprised to find out that you were one of the contributors for this site, which was given to me to on a list of "model" blogging websites... Well, actually, it's not that surprising, it fits you well. The surprise was that I knew one of the contributors of the website.

As a matter of coincidence, in the same session on internet, I also found out about this website, which I think you would enjoy:

http://www.soulpancake.com/

I hope you have a look at it, and that you'll let me if you like it :)(probably not on this website, but maybe on Facebook?)

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@ M. Sullivan

"If I am a hit man who uses my money to fund the arts? Do I get credit for my culture?"

Yes, why yes you do. Federico da Montefeltro, the Duke of Urbino, offed his rivals the Medicis during a high mass in the cathedral in Florence in 1478. Now that's class. And he has a most excellent rep as patron of the arts. . .notably sponsoring the great Italian painter Piero della Francesca, one of the greatest Renaissance painters. The Duke commissioned many portraits and church altarpieces as well as notable devotional paintings. A pious humanist, indeed.

Note however that the Medicis got their revenge in the end however, effectively seizing control of Urbino by 1516.

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