Daniel Handler Quotes
A bolt from the blue.
Snicket, Lemony. The Vile Village. HarperCollins, 2001.
In the French & Indian War, Braddock had organized a military expedition to destroy some of the forts that the French had constructed. (See {37008}.) Braddock and the other military officers thought that the force Braddock had organized would be overwhelming and easily accomplish the objective. Benjamin Franklin was one of the only Colonial leaders who expressed concern about the expedition–{583427}. This was one of the first battles for a promising young officer named George Washington who had two horses shot out from under him.
Noriega had been running drug smuggling operations in the United States. In 1989, American Troops landed in Panama and arrested him. He was brought to the United States, tried, convicted and served a jail sentence and was then extradited to Panama where he was again jailed there for his crimes as doctator.
Daniel Handler is an American writer and musician. He is best known for his children's series A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions, published under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket. The former was adapted into a Nickelodeon film in 2004 as well as a Netflix series from 2017 to 2019.
