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Kissinger should have known better than to have so underestimated the strength of America, since he certainly would have known how Napoleon had foolishly dismissed England as "a nation of shopkeepers" -- where the shopkeepers built a navy that sank Napoleon's, and then carried him to exile on...
Napoleon was banished to the tiny island of Elba, which lies just off the Italian coast and the monarchy was restored to France, the exiled king taking the throne as King Louis XVIII. The French government were supposed to provide Napoleon with a pension, which they failed to pay. At the...
57. Napoleon (1927), France, directed by Abel Gance An eye-roasting epic of the type even David Lean never made. Abel Gance used every filmmaking trope in the book and then invented a few of his own. Keep an eye peeled for surrealist nutcase Antonin Artaud as Marat. ...
The origins of today's troubles can be seen in the debris left by Napoleon's new order. Before 1789 the Jura districts had belonged to the prince-bishop of Basel. Exiled by the Reformation, the prince-bishop had established his see in the pretty Lilliputian residence of Arlesheim, from whi...
Napoleon had originally intended to erect the monument at the east end of the city, not far from the Bastille. His Minister of the Interior informed him that because the area was so densely populated, among other reasons, the project would be far too costly. Napoleon was thus convinced to ...
Trump was a businessman, and he promised to run the country like a business. Every beloved small mom-and-pop business is a dictatorship in miniature, helmed by some grubby little Napoleon who leches on the employees, issues memos on acceptable hairstyles, or forces them to listen to his ...
edited together to come up with a new story for U.S. audiences. One of those shows was "Super Dimension Fortress Macross," one of the most influential anime of all time. Aside from being one of the shows that made the Frankenstein's Monster that is "Robotech" a reality, 1982's "Supe...
The liberal fantasy of Free Individuals choosing harmonious government under a sensible constitution was never going to happen, But modernisation without a radical cultural break might have happened, if there had been a competent leader in the right place at the right time. As I said in the prev...