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8 Mar 2011, 8:00 pm by Karel.Frielink
Napoleon thought that his Acts were clear and unambiguous. [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 3:07 pm by Georgialee Lang
Quebec’s distinctive language and culture is also accompanied by a Napoleonic legal system which is not shared by other provinces in Canada. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 9:01 pm by Buce
But after the invasion of Peter Gelb, the new Napoleon of 66th Street, a production this unobjectionable can seem quaint, almost perfunctory, so much is it dominated by inevitable and invidious comparisons with What They Can Do at the Met. [read post]
28 Feb 2007, 12:46 pm
The house would not he out of place if plunked down as an extension of Versailles, save for the enormous bust of Napoleon in one of the salons. [read post]
3 Jun 2007, 5:35 am
The current constitutional challenge to three of the Bali 9 death sentences may not be enough to save their lives - even if they win.Andrew Chan, Scott Rush and Myuran Sukumaran have taken the case against their death sentences for heroin smuggling to the Indonesia's Constitutional Court.They are challenging the validity of laws used to sentence them to death despite a guarantee of the 'right to life' in the country's constitution.Professor Tim Lindsey, Director of the Asian Law… [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 10:33 am
Charon QCAnd Finally...The world's strangest lawsDid you know it's illegal in France to name a pig Napoleon? [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 1:22 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Napoleon Bonaparte was frustrated in his efforts to prevent Haiti from winning its independence from France. [read post]
23 Jan 2008, 5:01 am
Despite a questionable evidentiary record, the mark NAPOLEON BRIE (in standard character and design form) for cheese [BRIE disclaimed] met its Waterloo at the TTAB. [read post]
12 May 2021, 7:30 am by Kelly Goles
Napoleon had sent troops to suppress the rebellion, but high casualties due to yellow fever and combat compelled France to withdraw its forces in late 1803. [read post]
28 Nov 2022, 9:06 pm by Guest Contributor
Napoleon wanted a way to nourish troops for military campaigns. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 4:00 pm
Winkler urges further necessary consolidation of the EU already formed, before any further expansion takes place, since this would only counteract such a consolidation at the present time (see in this regard euro|topics).Winkler also points to the power of the executive in the Europe Union as "taking on a life of its own" as institutions such as the European Commission and the Council of the European Union increasingly dominate EU affairs, to the detriment of the European Parliament and… [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 6:58 am by Dave_Fagundes
Sarony (U.S. 1884) (holding that Napoleon Sarony was the author of a famous photograph of Oscar Wilde because Sarony determined the setting, lighting, subject placement, and other features of the work). [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 10:00 pm
Then Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French, and Beethoven scratched out his dedication to him in a furious rage, later scrawling sarcastically in its place: "to the memory of a great man. [read post]
12 May 2017, 6:00 am by Francisco Macías
  Before Sierra O’Reilly’s draft could be adopted, however, the French under Napoleon III invaded Mexico, and–despite an early Mexican victory on May 5, 1862 at the Battle of Puebla–forced Juárez and the Liberals from power and launched the Second Mexican Empire. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 11:44 am by admin
  Until it became redundant in the 1870s, there had been troops at Tower Y, as well as coastguards after Napoleon’s defeat. [read post]
28 Jan 2019, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
The commercial code of Belgium was inherited from the Napoleonic era and officially survived for more than 200 years. [read post]