In ancient Egypt, women rulers kept the society stable in times of potential turmoil. Can we use those lessons today?
But if their grip slackened, the Turks would be more likely to move in and establish client states. Lenin is still sidelined (we WILL hear from him eventually though, promise!) but he's spent a quarter century trying to bring communism to Russia. He can't, won't, st...
Napoleon III Apartments Replica of Napolean Apartments Richelieu Wing, First Floor, Room 547 Image Courtesy: Louvre.fr The building of the Louvre was used for multiple purposes throughout history and in the 18th century, it was renovated to accommodate Napoleon III apartments. The rooms are wel...
Passion in the Desert (1997) Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism. During ...
In 2020, only 20 pilots had permission to land there, but neither the Aviation Safety Network nor the Bureau of Aircraft Incidents Archives show any accidents. 9. St. Helena Airport, St. Helena This remote British island in the Atlantic is the place where Napoleon went into exile after his...
My election has been stolen. I’m out in the cold. You have to fight, or you won’t have a country anymore.Then at one point he warned they might never see him again. That’s very important. If a strongman’s followers are bonded to him, they become existentially upset at the ...
Napoleon associated the bee with regeneration. There is no question that bees have a firm place in the spiritual world. In reality, it isn't just the bee that may turn up in dreams but you could see a beehive, honey, or the actual honeycomb. The bee from a spiritual perspective ...
The word was popular throughout the nineteenth century—used toexpress the romantic view of the east that had been popular since Napoleon’striumph over Egypt. And, the story is about Romantic irony, for the unnamed boyhas a romantic view of the world. The fictional term predicts that the ...
the chaos and terror of the revolution, the emergence of Napoleon as an avatar of French élan, the slow death of the feudal system, the increasing presence of the United States in European politics, and all the famines and assassinations and coups that make the Napoleonic period one of the...
As an aside: Napoleon went into Russia to prevent Britain from getting wood from Baltic countries (Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were all controlled by/incorporated into the Russian Empire) to build ships and make iron, as France had become nearly deforested by 1812. Britain used its ...