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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]
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]
3 Nov 2011, 8:33 am
Amidst the pillaged documents were texts referenced to Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Beethoven, George Washington, and John Hancock. [read post]
19 Jul 2013, 4:00 am
I will leave you with this Napoleon Hill quote: I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 1:46 pm
Napoleon Dean-O-Mite [YouTube] Earlier: Should Hiram Chodosh File a Notice of Appeal? [read post]
14 Oct 2022, 8:00 am
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake,” Napoleon reportedly said two centuries ago. [read post]
1 Apr 2022, 9:17 am
Tolstoy noted a similar moment at Borodinó, two centuries ago, when the “moral force” of Napoleon’s army was exhausted outside Moscow—a victory that “convinced the enemy of the moral superiority of his opponent and of his own impotence. [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]
5 Jun 2023, 7:25 am
Napoleon, in describing military genius, said something like: The true genius is the one “who can do the average thing,” when those around him grow hysterical with emotion and fright. [read post]
6 Sep 2006, 10:54 am
" At the same time, however, he criticizes the Bush administration's failure to prepare for what Bush in a rare moment of candor called a "catastrophic success":No leader since Napoleon has roiled the Middle East as has George W. [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]
27 Apr 2010, 1:04 am
Every infraction of this provision will be subject to loss of French citizenship.This was not France's 1st go-round on the issue: Slavery had been abolished in 1794, during the French Revolution, but then was reinstated in 1802 by Napoleon. [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]
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]
20 Feb 2009, 1:00 pm
., and Eugene Napoleon, CEO / President of Nap Records and Nap Sports, LLC., & Best selling Author of "Dream Real. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 4:00 am
Val Napoleon For anyone interested in a critical, practical, and political exploration of reconciliation, Colleen Murphy’s book is a wonderful resource. [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]
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]
