http://www.metafilter.com/tags/JoshuaNorton Posts tagged with 'JoshuaNorton' at MetaFilter. Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:42:42 -0800 Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:42:42 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/17732/ <a href="http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/nort3.html"><i>Le Roi Est Mort</i></a>, declared the newspapers upon his death. A king without a country, <a href="http://www.discordia.org/~keeper/norton.html">Joshua A. Norton</a> declared himself Emperor Norton I of these United States in <a href="http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/norton.html">1859</a>. Was he a charlatan? A genius? Royalty? Or maybe all three? We may never know. Visit his <a href="http://www.notfrisco.com/nortoniana/">archives</a> to find out more. tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.17732 Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:42:42 -0800 1859 EmperorNorton history JoshuaANorton JoshuaNorton UnitedStates charlesv