For his first two months on St. Helena, Napoleon lived at Briars Pavilion, a small house on the estate of English merchant William Balcome. He was then moved to Longwood House, a 40-room wooden bungalow. Security around Napoleon was tight, the island being garrisoned by 2,100 British tro...
Napoleon Bonaparte died on May 5, 1821, on the island of St. Helena off the coast of Africa. He was 51 years old at the time. When doctors examined Napoleon’s body, they said that the former emperor of France had died from cancer of the stomach. That was the cause of death recorde...
Napoleon was sent to the island of St. Helena in 1815 after he lost the battle of Waterloo. He was a prisoner on the island. Although he had servants to attend to him, he had to live in one small building. St. Helena is a very wet island, so the walls of the building were alway...
If you've been around for a while, you know that trends come and go, especially when it comes to women's beauty. But do men like the end result? We asked! This is what I posted to social media for one of my highly unscientific research projects....
Located at the very tip of the Cow Neck Peninsula on Long Island, this exclusive, affluent community-inspiredEast Egg—F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional enclave in "The Great Gatsby." Well-to-do families like the Hearsts and Guggenheims would flee the summer heat in New York City for their...