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20 Jun 2019, 4:02 am
STC Towers, LLC, planned to build telecommunications towers in Ottawa Township and Napoleon Township. [read post]
5 Sep 2007, 1:05 am
Apparently having some second thoughts about its defense of a portrait of Jesus -- as depicted in an Eastern Orthodox icon-- hanging in the lobby of its City Court, the city of Slidell, Louisiana has now expanded the courthouse display to include a copy of the Constitution and portraits of 15 "notable lawgivers in history," including Moses, Charlemagne, and Napoleon. [read post]
16 Apr 2008, 10:20 pm
The European Jewish Press today reports that this is the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's creation of Jewish consistories in France, set up by imperial decree to organize the life of the Jewish community in the empire. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 8:53 am
During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: "Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church? [read post]
6 Jan 2021, 8:30 am
The French Civil Code, which Napoleon Bonaparte introduced in 1804, has had an enduring impact on the law, not just in France but throughout the world. [read post]
14 Sep 2017, 7:36 am
Ten years ago. [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 3:15 am
If Cafe NAPOLEON had a food truck, why wouldn't it call the truck CAFE NAPOLEON? [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 8:19 am
”(Actually, I just tried it out on a summer associate a few minutes ago -- he didn't seem to mind).Speaking of books, here is Richman Greer attorney and Palm Beach County Bar Association President Michael Napoleone on the best business books he's read:Best business books you've read: What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith, and Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath… [read post]
28 Jun 2016, 11:01 am
After Napoleon fell, Talleyrand—a leading French diplomat—purportedly said of the returning Bourbons: They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing. [read post]
19 Aug 2024, 12:25 pm
Here is the abstract: In 1814, after Napoleon’s military defeat and with major European political re-alignments afoot, two German law professors of Huguenot lineage—Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut and Friedrich Carl von Savigny—debated the question of whether Germany was ripe for a national code that could replace the motley patchwork of legislated and customary laws swirling amidst the German law and language space. [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 4:37 pm
Have you seen that Napoleon Dynamo? [read post]
2 Sep 2014, 6:44 am
These laws fell by the wayside after the French Revolution, when the Napoleonic regime re-established the Gregorian calendar. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 9:38 am
Napoleon crossed the stage a few times on a white horse, which I thought a needless distraction.... [read post]
24 Sep 2018, 3:26 pm
On July 12, 1790, in the first year of the French Revolution, the National Constituent Assembly passed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. [read post]
23 May 2008, 2:00 am
" Napoleon Polo, Cuzco Peru. [read post]
10 Jan 2021, 1:14 pm
Napoleon *** But it is Section 4 of the 25th Amendment which is most relevant in determining whether Donald Trump’s recent conduct of encouraging a coup on this Government should result in his removal from office. [read post]
8 Oct 2012, 12:58 am
The wealth tax often conflated with the idea of a mansion tax has long been a feature of Napoleonic regimes but in the UK, where house prices are both high and volatile, there is not the necessary correlation between available income and value of real property held to make such a tax practical. [read post]
5 Jun 2008, 10:46 pm
[Prettier Than Napoleon] * Remember Louise Woodward, the British nanny tried for murdering an 8-month-old boy? [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 12:43 am
Unemployed handyman Napoleon Leonard stands in front of the shed where he keeps his belongings at the spot where his house once stood before it was destroyed by fire May 6, 2009 in Marks, Mississippi. [read post]
10 Mar 2013, 12:32 pm
It was a period of conservative politics in reaction to the horrors and chaos of the French Revolution and Napoleons wide-reaching conquests. [read post]
