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The 1848 Revolutions Did Not Fail
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 11 months agoWhat’s the best way to build a barricade? A carriage or wagon is a good start, heaved over to form a sturdy base. Next: Peel up the street cobbles and...
Opinion: Principles of democracy best means of preserving peace, unity
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Age of Revolutions was inaugurated by the English Puritans in 1640 when they overthrew King...
Does the French Royal Family Still Exist? A Look Inside the Monarchy
LOVE to KNOW via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoAntoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Like many European countries,...
Retro Louisville: King Louis XVI statue
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 23 hours ago“Louisville will get a statue of King Louis XVI from her sister city, Montpellier, France, if arrangements for transportation can be worked out. A...
“Live Free Or Die!” Learn About Solitude, The Heroine Of Guadeloupe
Travel Noire via Yahoo News· 2 years ago“Live free or die!” declared Solitude, “The Warrior Woman” of Guadeloupe shortly before her...
The Napoléon that Ridley Scott and Hollywood won’t let you see
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe 1802 Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot was part of Napoléon's effort to retake Haiti − then known as...
Paranoia Will Destroy Ya
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 months agoFrom the G-File on The Dispatch "Lamartine Rejects the Red Flag," by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux. The painting depicts Alphonse de Lamartine, then...
Anna's Thinking Cap: Chicken Marengo or how Napoleon birthed a dish
Iowa City Press-Citizen via Yahoo News· 5 months agoWhat do Marengo, Iowa and Chicken Marengo have in common? Napoleon Bonaparte, of course, whose June...
My wife reminds me of Mexican Revolution women who wore 'bandoliers across their chests'
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMy wife, Sonia Ruiz, reminds me of the women in the Mexican Revolutionary song “Adelita” who wore...
The Monday After: Remembering Napoleans in the news
The Repository via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe news reported in the Canton Repository And Republican 150 years ago was positioned less than prominently, when considering its subject's status in...
