Napoleon

The Battle Hymns of the Republic

George Heymont | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Carl Davis, Oakland Paramount Theatre, Film, Napoleon, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Oakland East Bay Symphony, Kevin Brownlow, Video, Arts News

During the final 20 minutes of silent film Napoleon, theatre's organ joined forces with the Oakland East Bay Symphony to acoustically anchor an unforgettable cinematic experience.

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Napoleonic War Versus the Afghanistan Grind

William Dietrich | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Warfare, Afghanistan, Napoleon, Robert Bales, Books News

One of the challenges when writing historical fiction is imagining physical and social conditions very different than our own. My Ethan Gage novels take place during the Napoleonic Wars. Did combat of that time produce Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

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Napoleonland And Other Weird Theme Parks

Time.com | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Video, Weird Theme Parks, Napoleon, Weird France, Weird Videos, Napoleonland, Weird News News

It's been 200 years since Napoleon ravaged Europe in the name of French nationalism, so maybe it's time to put aside the differences over all that war...

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French Plan Napoleon Theme Park

Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Video, Napoleon, International Destinations, France Theme Park, Napoleon France, France Travel, Napoleon Theme Park, Napoleon Bonaparte, Travel News

Allons enfants de la Patrie...and head on down to Napoleonland! A Napoleon-themed amusement park is being planned for just south of Paris, and is bein...

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'Storage Wars' Big Score

Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Reality TV, Napoleon, Storage Unit, Jarrod Schulz, Storage Wars, Tv Replay, Brandi Passante, TV News

Buying storage units is a gamble, and like any form of gambling, there's a euphoric rush when that big payoff comes. "Storage Wars" (Tue., 10PM ET on ...

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Oscar-Winner Kevin Brownlow Continues His Labour on Behalf of Cinema's Past

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Academy Award Winners, Silent Film, Napoleon, Film, Movie News, Movies, Kevin Brownlow, Film History, Martin Scorcese, Video, Entertainment News

In the history of film, Kevin Brownlow is unique. The British documentary filmmaker, preservationist and author is the first and only film historian to have won an Academy Award.

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Saint Helena, Island Where Napoleon Died, To Get Airport

Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Saint Helena Napoleon, St Helena Airport, Napoleon, Video, Saint Helena, Travel News

Saint Helena, a remote U.K.-owned island in the southern Atlantic, is finally getting an airport. The island, which was home to Napoleon until his ...

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Was Goya A Traitor To The Spanish Cause?

Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Napoleon, Amsterdam, France, French Occupation, Spain, X-Ray Technology, Delft University, UK Arts, Napoleon Bonaparte, Joseph Bonaparte, Francisco Goya, Rijksmuseum, Francisco De Goya, X-Ray, Antwerp University, Don Ramón Satué, Goya, Disasters of War, Arts News

A new painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya has been discovered underneath his portrait of Judge Don Ramón Satué at the Rijksmuseum in Amste...

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Thinking About War and Peace

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Anna Netrebko, King Vidor, Hitler, Napoleon, War and Peace, Turin, Natasha, Sergei Prokofiev, Valery Gergiev, Norman Rose, Richard Pevear, Rostovs, Metropolitan Opera, Sergei Bondarchuk, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, NBC Opera Theatre, Bulgarian State Opera, Vilcek Foundation, Bolshoi Opera, Kiev, Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Nino Rota, Larissa Volokhonsky, Tolstoy, General Kutuzov, Prague Spring, Andrei Bolkonsky, Moscow, D. W. Griffith, The Crowd, Pierre Bezuhov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Constance Garnett, The Big Parade, Arts News

When I first saw Bondarchuk's "War and Peace," in 1968, in New York, it was presented in two parts and ran six hours. You went in the afternoon, broke for dinner, then came back for the rest. It was stupendous.

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Propaganda: Art Of Gaddafi, Hussein And Kim Jong Il

BLTWY | Posted 05.25.2011

Gaddafi has posed beneath a giant gold fist in Tripoli, but he's hardly the first dictator to use art to create the illusion of victory. From Ramses I...

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Our Coup d' Etat, by Accident

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

If we Americans and our civilian-elected leaders don't come to terms with our over-dependence on the military, we will cede increasing authority to an institution that doesn't want it and should not have it.

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Facebook and Goldman Sachs

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Cnbc, Goldman Sachs, Congressional Hearings, Napoleon, Facebook, Zuckerberg, Oil Futures, Municipal Bonds, Business News

To attach the emergently celebrated name of 'Facebook' to that of a company whose actions at a time when the country needed financial help and vision rather chose to profit heedlessly is profoundly sad.

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In France, They Cherish Lunch and Liberte

Matthew Jacob | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Cheese, Napoleon, Toulouse-Lautrec, Melons, Bastille Day, Henri Matisse, Food News

Both France and the United States celebrate their national holidays in the month of July. Yet that's where the similarities end. As the French prepare...

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Google and the Napoleonic Model: Business in Revolutionary Times

Robert Greene | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Greene, Google, Globalization, Napoleon, Strategy, Sergey Brin, Warfare, Larry Page, Power, Zara, Business News

Google's culture is focused on the idea that the company is the spearhead of a revolution. This sense of being part of a cause created an extremely motivated workforce, which allows Google to practice a kind of maneuver warfare.

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Napoleon's Lock of Hair Fetches Over $13,000

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Rare memorabilia of former French Emperor Napoleon 1st, including a lock of hair cut from his head after he died in ex...

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Mon General McChrystal

Michael Vlahos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Identity, Napoleon, Battle, Dien Bien Phu, War, Stanley McChrystal, Afghanistan, Napoleon III, Politics News

America, it seems, is coming to inhabit the puzzle that was once the lonely outpost of the French Empire. We are now the ageing Grand Nation. We have also been in losing mode since 1968.

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Boehner-McConnell: The Movie

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011

Both Boehner and McConnell have deluded themselves into believing they have already triumphed. Health care was to be Obama's Waterloo, but he won that battle. Those he defeated have become Napoleons.

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Shared History Forever Links Haiti And the US

Jim Downs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, Toussaint L'ouverture, Napoleon, Civil War, Lousiana Purchase, Haitian-Revolution, World News

Most Americans today are completely unaware of the critical role Haiti has played in the development and expansion of America, and the historical connections that link our two nations.

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Columbus Day Special: Colonialists And Conquerors (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

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Columbus Day may be celebrated as a patriotic holiday in the United States, but the man himself remains somewhat controversial. Some view Christopher ...

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Capitalist Pigs

Jane Smiley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, African Swine Fever, Reagan Administration, Napoleon, Haiti, World News

In the 1980s, American hog farmers became nervous about African Swine Fever, and exterminated the Haitian pigs. As a result, the peasantry moved to Port-au-Prince, now one of the great disaster areas in modern history.

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Interview: Robert Greene on 50 Cent

Jason Richards | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lil' Napoleon, Napoleon, The 50th Law, Rap, The 33 Strategies of War, Books, The 48 Laws of Power, Music, 50 Cent, Entertainment News

In The 50th Law, the new book Robert Greene co-wrote with 50 Cent, Greene regards the rapper as the music world's modern-day Bonaparte.

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6 'Facts' About Historic Figures (Their Enemies Made Up)

Cracked.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Napoleon, J. Edgar Hoover, Catherine the Great, Comedy News

The truth is like Silly Putty: you can stretch it, mold it and use it to destroy someone's life. Just ask anyone who's ever run a nasty smear campaig...

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Curse Words from an Old Manse

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Napoleon, Slaves, Free Speech, Stupid, Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Henry Louis Gates, Cursing, Benjamin Franklin, Barack Obama, Politics News

I strongly disagree with anyone caring about this "stupidly" business. Politics is serious, and sometimes people get fired up. Diplomatic speaking is for diplomats.

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Who Owns Art? Who Owns Democracy?

Karen Essex | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: British Museum, Napoleon, Louvre, Lord Elgin, Parthenon, Stealing Athena, Bernard Tschumi, New Acropolis Museum, World News

If the Parthenon marbles are returned to Greece from Britain, it should not be done on the basis of returning "colonial booty." These sculptures are a unique and special case.

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Can the U.S. Win the War in Afghanistan? What Napoleon Can Teach Obama About Guerrilla Warfare

Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Pakistan Taliban, US Troops Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Napoleon, Guerrilla Warfare, World News

Will President Obama's approach on Afghanistan prove more efficacious than that of George W. Bush? The lessons of history raise doubts that deserve serious reflection.

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