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Entry: Ecstasy at Sea Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/ecstasy_at_sea#33007 Post contents: I participated in the lawyering on a deal last year in which the Italian company purchasing our client's assets was located on the via Martiri di Cefalonia, evidently outside Milan. A reminder of Cephalonia's darker history (see "Captain Correlli's Violin" for the sanitized version). Another fact that I seem to recall is that Sir John Napier was once British Resident on Cephalonia, siring two girls there by a local lass. He then rtired to England to raise his natural daughters in somewhat genteel poverty until called back into Her Majesty's service; he went on become, at age 60 or so (there's hope yet!) the Conqueror of Afghanistan, and author of the immortal telegram of triumph: "peccavi" (I have sinned), and married at least one of the girls off to a dashing young officer, as well. Sent at: 2008 12 02