Napoleon disliked Gall and his views (it is claimed because of Napoleon’s anti-German and anti-materialist views, and because he was dissatisfied with Gall’s reading of his skull; Hedderly 1970). Napoleon pressured the French Academy of Sciences to evaluate Gall’s work. In 1808 Georges ...
This scenario has quite the history to it. I am sure that most readers would know that Kevin Ross has a long history of published Lovecraftian game scenarios — including some of the most highly claimed ever written. But prior to his first published scenarios (in 1989’s “The Great Old O...
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In England, it was the landed aristocracy; in France, Napoleon III’s bureaucracy; in Germany, the Junkers; in Japan, the Meiji. In America, the closest approach to a ‘natural’ bourgeois evolution, industrialisation was carried out by a mercantilist aristocracy of Federalist shipping magnates ...
Haute Couture has come a long way since the days of Louis XIV who promoted French fashion throughFashion Dolls. The fashion history of Haute Couture truly began in France in the 18thcentury with couturier Rose Bertin as Minister For Fashion and continued with Leroy after Napoleon became Emperor ...
Kingdom should remain a member of theEuropean Union. In that capacity, he faced off with Cameron, who was the country’s most prominent proponent ofBritainremaining in the EU, and came undercriticismfor equating the EU’s efforts to unify Europe with those undertaken byNapoleon IandAdolf ...