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13 May 2011, 5:44 pm
You have to know about more than just the movies to see the “nobility” in Denzel Washington’s best acting; to isolate Al Pacino’s characteristic of “outrageous inner size,” you have to be up to speed with short-legged Napoleonic warlords since Alexander the Great; evoking Warren Beatty’s “puzzled look” is a nice way of describing catatonia, but it proves that the critic’s eye for aesthetic value can penetrate a surface; and it… [read post]
5 Feb 2007, 3:34 pm
" Or, as Wellington said after defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, "It was a damned close-run thing" - but the good guys won. [read post]
6 Sep 2007, 11:00 pm
Gross doesn’t believe the wealthy help society more than the government can, stating that “when millions of people are dying of AIDS and malaria in Africa, it is hard to justify the umpteenth society gala held for the benefit of a performing arts centre or an art museum…a $30 million gift to a concert hall is not philanthropy, it is a Napoleonic coronation. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 9:18 pm
Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon said Phillips was arrested in upstate New York, while visiting his father. [read post]
3 Dec 2023, 5:30 pm
Income tax is from 1790, introduced in Britain during the Napoleonic wars, re-introduced 1842; in U.S. levied by the federal government 1861-72, authorized on a national level in 1913. also from c. 1300 The United States should lose this case. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 11:59 am
The Napoleonic Wars/French Revolution were crucial to the interpretation of the Constitution (consider the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Louisiana Purchase, or the sack of Washington by the British) Revulsion toward Nazi Germany was a key factor in the decline of racism in the United States, and the Cold War was a powerful force in jurisprudence after World War II. [read post]
1 Sep 2008, 2:36 pm
Imagine having to go through your deceased father's house to cull out what's valuable and what's not --especially when your father was a noted collector of historical relics, kept few or no records, and had amassed a collection of more than 3,000 objects, including the purported remains of the severed penis of Napoleon Bonaparte! [read post]
1 May 2017, 1:01 am
Washington preferred to avoid “entangling alliances,” and so he did not take sides in Britain’s long war with (first) revolutionary France and then Napoleonic France. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 3:27 am
Michael Broers, Changes in War: The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsGil-li Vardi, The Change from WithinGerard J. [read post]
30 Oct 2021, 10:03 am
So I’m taking the Napoleonic position. [read post]
21 Aug 2007, 12:04 pm
Imagine how bad the others must be.Rallying against workplace Napoleons seems to be a popular subject at the moment. [read post]
14 Jul 2012, 12:00 am
(credit for circa-1810 portrait) Today's she's best known for her writings, including her epistolary 1st novel, Delphine (1802), the sociopolitical message of which prompted Napoleon Bonaparte's displeasure, and so another exile. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 11:35 am
Trim, 'If a prince use tyrannie towards his people': interventions on behalf of foreign populations in early-modern EuropeAndrew Thompson, The Protestant interest and the history of humanitarian intervention, c.1685–c.1756 Brendan Simms, 'The age of chivalry is not dead': the idea of humanitarian intervention in the era of Burke John Bew, 'From an umpire to a competitor': Castlereagh, Canning and the issue of international intervention in the wake of the… [read post]
16 Dec 2019, 12:01 am
She was nothing if not courageous and determined, and in 1814, she defied the blockades set in place by the Napoleonic Wars and shipped her 1811 vintage to the imperial court at St. [read post]
7 Jan 2016, 4:00 am
In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill tells the story of two men who panned for gold during the gold rush. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 7:23 am
At the time of Alfred Nobel’s death Norway had been united with Sweden since the Napoleonic wars and didn’t gain its freedom until 1905. [read post]
9 May 2009, 8:45 pm
Amended version of 1297 from the UK Statute Law Database and Original and translation version available at the British Library website 1274 Summa Theologica 1625 Grotius’ De iure belli ac pacis 1690 Locke’s Two Treatises on Civil Government 1748 Montesquieu De l’esprit des lois 1772 Somersett v Stewart found that slavery was illegal in England (though not in the Empire) (1772) 20 State Tr 1; (1772) Lofft 1 1804 Napoleon’s Code civil 1864 Geneva… [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 11:05 am
Napoleon Bonaparte, upon completion of the agreement stated, "This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 11:05 am
Napoleon Bonaparte, upon completion of the agreement stated, "This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride. [read post]
27 Nov 2006, 8:45 am
[Prettier than Napoleon] [read post]
