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4 Mar 2008, 1:12 pm
The British army, trapped, fought free and fell back toward the Channel ports, converging on a fishing town whose name was then spelled Dunkerque.Behind them lay the sea.It was England's greatest crisis since the Norman conquest, vaster than those precipitated by Phillip II's Spanish Armada, Louis XIV's triumphant armies, or Napoleon's invasion barges massed at Boulogne. [read post]
6 Jan 2007, 11:17 am
From Friday's Gary Post Tribune, a story by Carrie Napoleon that begins:Despite strong protest from nearby residents, Wolf Creek Calf Co. was given permission to proceed with plans to convert the Schuringa Poultry Farm into a 10,000-head calf farm. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 1:56 am
Things are so bad that Broward may just dissolve and ask to become "Dade North" (North Dade is already taken and we are sure the fine folks in North Dade want nothing to do with being associated with Broward in any manner), at which point the statute of Florida's 19th Governor- Napoleon Bonaparte Broward - (who notably wanted to drain the Everglades)- which stands ominously in the hallways of the new wing of the Courthouse in Broward, would just spontaneously implode. [read post]
6 May 2010, 3:02 am
It's from Napoleon Hill and it goes like this: "Within every adversity, there is a seed of an equal or greater benefit. [read post]
10 Mar 2021, 5:31 am
He later fought in the Napoleonic Wars and was killed at the Battle of Waterloo. [read post]
21 Oct 2016, 5:38 am
You will also not wonder whether “rock” meant “cat” or “Napoleon” or “n-dimensional pyramid,” depending upon my peculiar and idiosyncratic linguistic preferences, or upon my idiosyncratic view of reality. [read post]
24 Dec 2009, 10:04 am
I saw many people with trolleys loaded to the brim with food and satsuma oranges – catering, no doubt, for the possibility, as Palmer had suggested, that ‘Napoleon and his army might pop in on Christmas Day’. [read post]
Traffickers in Stolen Schieles: U.S. Museum Directors Warned Not To Act As Receivers of Stolen Goods
6 May 2010, 7:16 pm
***Not since the time of Napoleon Bonaparte has there been the wholesale looting and destruction of art property that is going on today in the occupied countries. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 7:29 am
Partly as a consequence of the Battle of Cape Saint Mary, Spain declared war against Great Britain and entered into the Napoleonic Wars as an ally of France. [read post]
4 Aug 2016, 10:14 am
And lest there be any doubt that her conspiracy theories were motivated by long-standing anti-Jewish memes, she included a leering image of Jacob Rothschild, with accompanying text (capital letters original) that could have been lifted straight from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion or Stormfront: MY NAME IS JACOB ROTHSCHILD MY FAMILY IS WORTH 500 TRILLION DOLLARS WE OWN NEARLY EVERY CENTRAL BANK IN THE WORLD WE FINANCED BOTH SIDES OF EVERY WAR SINCE NAPOLEON WE OWN YOUR NEWS, THE… [read post]
28 Oct 2016, 4:42 am
Napoleon Community Schools, a case to be argued next week stemming from a school district’s refusal to allow a disabled child to bring her service dog to school with her, arguing that the courts have turned the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, “which is meant to expand the rights of children with disabilities, into a law that also contracts their rights by forcing them into the IDEA dispute-resolution process even for non-IDEA disputes. [read post]
28 Jun 2016, 8:47 am
Napoleon Community Schools) is whether a disabled child’s family must first try to work out with school officials a dispute over the assistance their child needs, before the parents may sue for damages under federal anti-discrimination law. [read post]
1 Mar 2022, 11:45 am
It was that reality that emboldened Napoleon Bonaparte in his wars of world domination. [read post]
18 Jan 2023, 6:00 am
Some say Napoleon requested that bread be baked in long, thin loaves so it would be easier for his soldiers to carry with them. [read post]
2 Apr 2019, 4:00 am
During the Napoleonic Wars and shortly before its union with Norway, Sweden created a parallel office attached to the legislative branch. [read post]
24 Nov 2022, 6:19 am
Napoleon supposedly said that to understand a man one must look to the world when he was twenty. [read post]
8 Jan 2016, 8:00 pm
Napoleon Community Schools 15-497Issue: Whether the Handicapped Children’s Protection Act of 1986 commands exhaustion in a suit, brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, that seeks damages – a remedy that is not available under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. [read post]
18 Apr 2008, 7:54 am
One of these labor representatives, director Bernd Osterloh, has denounced the actions of Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking (also a supervisory board member), calling him a "Napoleon," news reports indicate. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 4:11 am
They gave us a legal system, codified in the 6th Century by Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis, also known as the Code of Justinian, and later modified via the Code Napoleon and the German Civil Code, used by a majority of the world’s nations that is based on a body of law created by the legislative process. [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]
