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16 May 2019, 2:00 pm
The Palais de l'Industrie (The Palace of Industry) was an exhibition hall constructed for the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1855 under special request of Emperor Napoleon III to demonstrate superiority of French technologies... [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 4:37 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
NPR – A Girl And Her Service Dog Head To The Supreme Court – “Ehlena Fry was born with cerebral palsy, a condition that significantly limited her motor skills but not her cognitive ability. [read post]
5 Oct 2009, 1:30 am
Napoleon was a revolutionary who made himself Emperor. [read post]
7 Jan 2008, 12:00 am
  Sun Tzu and Napoleon obviously thought the same way:"Thus, to take a long circuitous route, after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him, to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 8:30 am
The French Civil Code, which Napoleon Bonaparte introduced in 1804, has had an enduring impact on the legal world, not just in France but throughout the world. [read post]
26 Jan 2018, 8:06 pm
Abandon Hope All Ye Who Walk Down This Hall....What happened to the statute of Napoleon Bonaparte Broward? [read post]
5 Jan 2021, 8:00 am by ernst
The French Civil Code, which Napoleon Bonaparte introduced in 1804, has had an enduring impact on the legal world, not just in France but throughout the world. [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 8:21 am
In 1861, the Confederacy sent John Sliddell, a southern statesman from Louisiana, to the Court of Louis Napoleon III, in order to obtain diplomatic recognition by France as well as to try to enlist France as an ally against the United States. ...Sliddell spoke excellent French (his wife was the ‘queen’ of French creole society in Louisiana) and his daughter Mathilde was known throughout the South for her beauty. ...On arrival in Paris, Sliddell’s courtly manners, and… [read post]
10 Jun 2016, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On one level, the book gives you the story of how Admiral Horatio Nelson led the British fleet to victory over Napoleon’s navy and thus ended any threat to England by Napoleon. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 8:04 am by atussey@mortgagefraudblog.com
Guillermo Napoleon Lopez, Miami, Florida, was disbarred from practicing law immediately following an October 19, 2010, court order. [read post]
14 Mar 2020, 8:00 am by Paul Caron
Daniel Shaviro (NYU), Literature and Inequality: Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era Through the First Gilded Age (Anthem Press 2020): We are an intensely social species, and often a rivalrous one, prone to measuring ourselves in terms of others, and often directly against others. [read post]
22 Mar 2024, 5:13 am by Gerry W. Beyer
Adam Hirsch (Napoleon Jones Professor of Law and Herzog Endowed Scholar, University of San Diego School of Law) has recently posted on SSRN his article entitled Beyond Privity of Blood: Intestacy and Charity. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 8:24 am by InternationalLaw Blogger
The International Committee of the American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section ("TIPS") will meet in New Orleans this Saturday, February 4, 2012, at 1:00 p.m. in the New Orleans Marriott Hotel, Napoleon Room, 41st Floor. [read post]
10 Dec 2014, 10:34 pm by Eric Rasmusen
Napoleon said something like "I choose my generals because they're lucky, not because they're smart. [read post]