After Napoleon was exiled (for the second time) in 1815, Ney was arrested and condemned. For his past military service, he was given the right to order his own execution squad to fire. It was the last order he issued. The Tower of London Was the Best Place to Kill Spies in Wo...
France was not in it’s best shape in 1812 and the miserable defeat angered the people more than it was expected. In fact, the people were so disgraced, they exiled their own emperor. Upon Napoleon's return, it was expected from him to re establish his undefeatable authority, instead the...
Though most people did not really need maps when traveling on foot or horseback, as they usually followed already well-known paths and roads, cartography was extremely useful in the field of sea travel, as there were often no orientation points for thousands of miles and one could get lost v...
Napoleon’s Cologne and The Art of Citrus Fragrances Napoleon Bonaparte is said to have used liters of cologne. While exiled on St. Helena, his servant Mameluke Ali created a blend that approximated the former emperor’s favorite combination of citrus and herbs. While my ambitions don’t reac...
Napoleon tried to force the other animals to build it quickly, but the strain of building the windmill meant the animals worked long, hard hours and received small amounts of food. By pronouncing the struggle of the animals and their mistreatment in an attempt to rapidly build a windmill, ...
“Half was done by the war, the rest was completed by the revolution. The war was an artificial interruption of life, as if existence could be postponed for a while (what nonsense!). The revolution burst out against its will, like a sigh that had been delayed for too long. Everyone ca...
Longform How Wes Anderson Perfected the Music-Nerd Soundtrack Charting the impact of the director’s use of music in his work across the last 20 years in anticipation of his latest film, Isle of Dogs. By Judy BermanMarch 21, 2018 Wes Anderson photo by NurPhoto. Graphic by Martine Ehr...
(Napoleon even once quipped that Britain was “a nation of shopkeepers”), but their social policies were very much liberal, in promoting cosmopolitan society. For all intensive purposes, the British Empire shared far more in common with Nazi Germany, economically, but the common Brit cring...
Victoria is also the one character to fully welcome the exiled Grizabella (Jennifer Hudson) into the group. In the musical, she is the first cat to touch Grizabella after her big “Memory” number but that doesn’t happen until the end. In the movie, we see her slowly trying to bring ...
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