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8 Nov 2006, 10:01 pm
Here is the abstract:This essay, presented in Vienna at an international conference on the Bush Administration and America's Future and to be published there, analyzes the Bush administration through two lenses: one developed by Marx in his analysis of the rise of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, and the other Hans Mommsen's analysis of the happenstantial construction of Hitler's dictatorship. [read post]
11 Sep 2007, 2:54 am
The againsters (particularly MoveOn.org) tried to trash the general, suggesting that he'll misrepresent facts and "betray us" while the pros built him up as the greatest military genius since Napoleon. [read post]
4 May 2007, 5:02 pm
It established the Council of Europe, an intergovernmental organization that has grown from an original 10 to a current total 46 member states, spanning the map from Portugal to Russia, Iceland to Azerbaijan.... 1862, "5,000 ill-equipped Mestizo and Zapotec Indians" repelled a French army led by Napoleon III at Puebla, about 100 miles from Mexico City. [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 8:25 am
The plaintiff claimed Dunlap represented to it that she held the rights to the hit spy series that ran from 1964-1968 and made international stars of Robert Vaughn (Napoleon Solo) and David McCallum (Illya Kuryakin).Anchor Bay, Starz Media's DVD distribution unit, gave Dunlap $500,000 for U.N.C.L.E. masters and another $125,000 for DVD extra footage pursuant to a 2005 contract. [read post]
1 Mar 2007, 3:38 am
The Legion of Honor is France's oldest and highest military and civilian decoration, and was created by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 to acknowledge services rendered to France by persons of great merit. [read post]
21 May 2008, 9:15 am
Probably no single author suits Hauser's purposes better than Stendhal: The social problem consists … ion the face of these ambitious young people rising from the lower classes and uprooted by their education, who find themselves without money and without connections at the end of the revolutionary period, and who, deluded, on the one hand, by the opportunities of the Revolution, on the other, by Napoleon's good fortune, want to play… [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 1:46 pm
Napoleon Dean-O-Mite [YouTube] Earlier: Should Hiram Chodosh File a Notice of Appeal? [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 3:54 am
But, on the other hand, the epic sweep and vision of this presentation of a slice of life among the Russian aristocracy in 1812 when Napoleon led his western European forces in an invasion of Russia is totally gripping. [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 6:32 pm
As a result of the Treaty of Fontainebleau in 1807, Napoleon and Carlos IV of Spain agreed to carve Portugal into areas to be governed by France and Spain, with the Spanish to assume control of the Algarve. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 12:00 am
(image credit) This ended the 11-year Mexican War of Independence, which had begun when "Napoleon's occupation of Spain led to the outbreak of revolts all across Spanish America. [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 4:24 pm
The following is taken from Mark Bennet’s excellent criminal law blog, By James Kavanaugh © 1979(From his collection, Walk Easy on the Earth)The unsmiling judge with wet, flapping jowls,Dismissing the tears of husbands and wives,Spitting out consonants, rolling his vowels,Tearing out hearts and carving up lives,Slicing the children apart at their bowels,Believing that justice latterly thrives—Wiser than Solomon or blinking old owls—As long as his echoing edict… [read post]
3 Oct 2011, 5:35 pm
’” Napoleon regarded conscripts as a “free good” and therefore didn’t much care how many of them got killed. [read post]
18 Jun 2017, 2:30 am
Napoleon had abdicated months earlier and the French threat had diminished for the British. [read post]
20 Nov 2007, 11:56 am
" Having read Amber's blog, Prettier Than Napoleon, I knew that she would vehemently disagree with my arguments in the book. [read post]
20 Feb 2013, 4:51 am
” I got the idea originally from Napoleon Hill. [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 9:35 am
Barbara Dixon, of Napoleon Township, MI who was driving the oncoming eastbound vehicle, tried but failed to miss the van when it came back across. [read post]
2 Feb 2016, 3:28 am
DTCC Explores Blockchain Technology As noted in this blog by Steve Quinlivan, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation – known as “DTCC,” whose subsidiary that keeps book-entries is known as “DTC” – issued this white paper examining the use of blockchain technology to settle trades… Senator Warren has issued this 13-page report on “weak justice”… The New “Napoleon Dynamite”: “Baskets” Did you like… [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 9:58 am
But it is hard to imagine any lives richer in incident than those of Napoleon or Talleyrand. [read post]
8 Jan 2020, 5:39 am
As a result of Napoleon forcing Charles IV and her brother Ferdinand VII to abdicate the Spanish throne, Carlota claimed to be the legitimate ruler of the Spanish-American colonies, but was ultimately unsuccessful in her claims. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 10:31 am
” Of course as Napoleon said, no battle plan survives contact with the enemy. [read post]
