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25 Mar 2008, 1:52 am
And in light of the demise of the Scruggs Law Firm (three out of four lawyers in a recent survey said, "I'm guilty"), I thought this song, Waterloo, would be the most appropriate, with its prophetic first lines: At Waterloo Napoleon did surrender/ And I have met my destiny in quite a similar way/ The history book on the shelf/ It's always repeating itself. [read post]
13 May 2011, 8:08 am
“By unkindly focusing only on the negative aspect of your ownership, the author, Dave McKenna, is suggesting that you are an avaricious, imperious, conscienceless plutocrat with callous contempt for the fans; a man whose Napoleonic, pouter-pigeon swagger conceals a doofus-like understanding of the game and whose pernicious, autocratic meddling has consigned the team to perpetual mediocrity and its players and coaches to a perennial state of harrowing anxiety, all of this… [read post]
21 Dec 2006, 5:09 am
I would probably not be the first to observe that Reich, famously short at 4'10", has generated more controversy per inch than almost anyone since Napoleon (and even CIO Insight, the magazine interviewing him, calls him one part "polemicist"), but he's saying something important here, reasonably well divorced from his ideological premises, and it's worth pondering. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 6:52 pm
Here are the next 4 paragraphs: Late in the eighteenth century, after the loss of their American colonies...Foreign Policy didn't want to remind us Americans that Britain antagonized us. ... the British set out to compensate for what had been lost, first by defeating Napoleonic France and then by expanding the reach of the crown in colonies from India to the tip of South America and from Africa to the islands of the Western Pacific. [read post]
17 Feb 2019, 9:45 am
Today’s post—our eighth—in recognition, honor, and celebration of Black History Month, provides a link to a reading guide on the Haitian Revolution as well as material from a prior post on that revolution in the art of Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000), an African-American painter, storyteller, and professor of art at the University of Washington in Seattle. [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 5:55 pm
Neff’s fluid and authoritative chapter, which shows the evolution of POW treatment away from the pre-Napoleonic regimes of “redistribution” of captured prisoners to the modern practices of “holding” or “internment. [read post]
30 Sep 2019, 6:46 am
Halloween is a month away, but the candy is on the shelves at our local grocery stores and the courts are already delivering tricks and treats for those of us concerned with accessibility lawsuits. [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 7:20 am
Emperor Napoleon was resting between wars, and while he was able to sell Louisiana before he would have lost it (to Britain), he had nothing to gain from the Hispaniolan gentry, so he cut them loose. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 9:20 am
The Napoleon Community school district in Michigan said that it had already provided a one-on-one support person to help the child at school, and the dog wasn’t needed. [read post]
18 Aug 2007, 10:40 am
Pupils as young as 15 can be imprisoned for this.- Until 1984 Belgians were made to choose their children’s names from a list of 1500 drawn up in the days of Napoleon.- In Romania, in 1935, Mickey Mouse was banned because the authorities thought that the sight of a 10ft high rodent on screen would terrify the nation’s children.- Donald Duck comics were once banned in Finland because he never wore pants.- Belgium is the only country that has never imposed censorship on… [read post]
26 Aug 2019, 10:33 am
We find Austen, living at the dawn of industrialization and against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, having spent her entire life in central and southern England. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 3:39 pm
Other examples range from Napoleon’s 1795 prize for a method of sterile canning to DARPA’s 2004 prize for a self-driving car. [read post]
28 Apr 2016, 4:40 pm
And thus my provocation: half a century from now, in gatherings like this one, our grandchildren may look back and marvel at the lunatic arrogance of a project that sought to confine law in and to the state in the manner that our twentieth century thinkers found so mindlessly without problem.They may conclude that the madness of the Enlightenment, of metastasized scientism, of Napoleon and Marx, and Anglo-American pragmatists, and those who followed hem, who sought to classify and confine… [read post]
4 Jul 2015, 8:27 pm
But stirring music written to commemorate a Russian victory over invading Napoleonic forces int early 19th century, and the climax of which, over the sound of cannon's roar, includes strains from the old Imperial Russian national anthem of the later 19th century. [read post]
13 Feb 2018, 7:46 am
., Canada, Australia) have much more in common with each other than they do with systems that grew from different roots, such as the Napoleonic Codes that are the foundations of the legal systems in much of continental Europe and Latin America. [read post]
27 Oct 2021, 7:30 am
Napoleon Bonaparte (passim) and Thomas Stanford Raffles (pp. 200–202), in turn, promoted written constitutions to legitimize and solidify French and British imperial projects. [read post]
30 Dec 2007, 12:20 pm
TTAB Affirms Refusal of "ECODOWN" for Pillows Under 2(a), 2(d), and 2(e)(1) "PECORA NERA" and "BLACK SHEEP" Confusingly Similar for Clothing, Says TTABTTAB Dismisses "SPAM ARREST" Cancellation Petition TTAB Finds "QUESTIONARY" and "PICTIONARY" Confusingly Similar for Board GamesBose Wins 2(d) "WAVE" Opposition Despite Losing One Registration to Applicant's Fraud Claim "MONSTER" Mistake: 2(d) Opposer Fails to Get… [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 11:44 pm
I feel myself in the position of a disabled French veteran who watches as Napoleon, just returned from Elba, whips his countrymen into a frenzy to go on the warpath once more -- the warpath that will end in disgrace and defeat at Waterloo. [read post]
27 Sep 2021, 3:33 pm
To conclude, this history of the AI as inventor reminds us of the power of Myths, and, at the time of the bicentenary of Napoleon’s death, that “imagination rules the world” (for good or ill, one might add, as the Emperor himself demonstrated it). [read post]
24 Jun 2015, 12:24 pm
Quebec’s First Civil Code Sixty-two years after the enactment of the Napoleonic Code and 10 years after the adoption of its enabling legislation of 1857, the Civil Code of Lower Canada (which would today correspond to the province of Quebec) came into effect on August 1, 1866, 11 months before the advent of the Canadian confederation. [read post]
