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19 Jan 2011, 3:09 am
Please spare a thought for the family and friends of Johan Nortje, a senior South African customs investigator who, having enjoyed considerable success in the fight against the tidal wave of counterfeits, has been murdered amid fears that the gangs who smuggle unlawful goods into the country are targeting enforcement officers -- or at least the ones who are (i) effective and (ii) don't accept bribes. [read post]
30 Nov 2022, 5:01 am
Army (@USArmy), Twitter, Sept. 2, 2012, 9:13 am, https://perma.cc/8SYH-M8HY (crediting Napoleon). [3] See Dave Phillips, Navy Orders High-Level Outside Investigation of SEAL Course, N.Y. [read post]
6 Mar 2011, 2:04 pm
It opens with Horatio Nelson's famous challenge confronting the armada of French and Spanish ships that Napoleon had dispatched across the English Channel to disrupt Britain's commerce and set the stage for an invasion of the British Isles (Nelson is of course famously commemorated today in Trafalgar Square in the heart of London, up the street from Parliament and home to the National Gallery). [read post]
4 Aug 2024, 9:05 pm
In War and Peace, Tolstoy describes how the Russians slowly defeated Napoleon and the French by sapping their strength and attacking at all junctures, even though they lacked the strength to win a decisive battle. [read post]
26 Dec 2023, 12:01 am
The refectory in which it was painted became a stable for Napoleon’s troops in 1796. [read post]
4 Feb 2022, 10:01 am
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29 May 2016, 1:14 pm
Napoleon Community Schools; I discuss that case in more detail in a post on my own blog.) [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 11:05 pm
Some background information on canning The canning process dates back to the late 18th century in France when the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, concerned about keeping his armies fed, offered a cash prize to whoever could develop a reliable method of food preservation. [read post]
2 Sep 2010, 4:04 pm
Well, here some other famous people who probably should have quit before the end: Napoleon, Muhammad Ali, and Jesus Christ. [read post]
30 Oct 2015, 9:21 am
In the depths of winter during the Napoleonic war, attention was drawn to Hammersmith, which at the time was a small village on the outskirts of London in England, as it was terrorized by a ghost. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 7:00 am
Both of these articles were in the very first Civil Code, adopted by Napoleon in 1804. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 3:49 am
Napoleon Community Schools, which stems from a school district’s refusal to allow a disabled child to bring her service dog to school, comes from Amy Howe for this blog. [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 7:51 am
One such player was Napoleon “Nap” Lajoie, a star player for the National League’s Philadelphia Phillies. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 9:05 pm
As consumers demand protections for the environment, corporations increasingly tout their sustainability efforts. [read post]
23 Oct 2012, 6:35 am
It’s also a challenge of consensus, because the Allies (as one might call them in Napoleonic terms) must also reach agreement with each other, and squabbling can be the norm. [read post]
16 Nov 2014, 8:00 am
Maxims originating in the Latin tongue served as a kind of universal legal language across European boarders for over a millenia, continued in Anglo-American jurisprudence even after the implementation of the Napoleonic Code in the rest of Europe, and remain codified today, for example, in the California Civil Code (Civ. [read post]
15 Aug 2024, 6:00 am
For the Balkinization Symposium on Alison L. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 12:09 pm
Evil, Tears for Fears, or Napoleon, ruling the world is at or near the top of your to-do list, and part of ruling the world is having as omniscient a knowledge as possible of what’s going on, in order to better control it. [read post]
8 Dec 2013, 8:44 pm
Some background information on canning The canning process dates back to the late 18th century in France when the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, concerned about keeping his armies fed, offered a cash prize to whoever could develop a reliable method of food preservation. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 9:40 pm
Some years ago the City of New London condemned a neighborhood of homes so they could be torn down. [read post]
