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19 May 2015, 4:52 am by Tim Kevan
Kind of a posh English version of Napoleon Dynamite with the sort of face which looks as if it’s constantly […] [read post]
27 May 2010, 2:00 am by Karen Tani
Two books recent books take up the topic of political slander and free speech in 18th-century France: The Devil in the Holy Water, or, The Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon, by Robert Darnton (Harvard University), and Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech, by Charles Walton (Yale University).Lynn Hunt recently reviewed both [read post]
9 Jul 2007, 1:42 am
THE LAW OF NATIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IN THE FRENCH SATELLITE STATES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC AGE (1789-1815), R.C.H. [read post]
7 Dec 2021, 4:15 am by Mark Sommers
The team last rebranded in 1915, when it left behind its former name, the “Naps” (short for “Napoleons”) in favor of the “Indians. [read post]
19 Jun 2008, 1:01 pm
The famous line attributed to Napoleon, "Able was I ere I saw Elba", and "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama", are fairly well-known examples. [read post]
25 Mar 2008, 6:29 am
  Just kidding all you Napoleonic complex manly law school men. [read post]
10 Feb 2006, 8:26 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] defense lawyer and former head of the Jordanian Lawyers Association Saleh al-Armouti said Friday that Hussein has claimed that the United States had offered him life in exile "like Napoleon" if he would use his influence to end the Iraq insurgency. [read post]
6 Jan 2008, 8:16 am
Norton & Company), NAPOLEON'S EGYPT: Invading the Middle East by Juan Cole (Palgrave Macmillan) and ISLAMOPHOBIA: Making Muslims the Enemy, by Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg (Rowman & [read post]
4 Aug 2014, 6:48 am
I was just reminded of this tidbit I learned several years ago: The immediate predecessor to the FBI, called the Bureau of Investigation, was founded by then-Attorney General Charles Bonaparte, who was Napoleon’s grand-nephew. [read post]
17 Jun 2013, 6:42 am by Irina Tarsis, Esq.
Coat of arms of the House of Borghese Depending on one's background and taste, 'Borghese' is associated with different things: Italian papal history, art collection in Rome, Napoleon's sister, cosmetics, reality show "The Bachelor  and, now, an expensive legal suit Borghese Trademarks Inc. et al v.  [read post]
6 Jul 2009, 1:03 pm
It's about two magicians in early 19th-century England who aspire to return English magic to its rightful place in the world, and defeat Napoleon in the bargain. [read post]
30 Jan 2009, 9:23 am
This post over at Prettier than Napoleon (cool name for a blog, no?) [read post]
22 Feb 2017, 8:59 am by Erik Slobe
Napoleon Community Schools [SCOTUSblog materials], a child with cerebral palsy attempted to bring her trained service dog with her to kindergarten. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 8:53 am by Tom Smith
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]
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]