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What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Napoleon
Slate via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIt’s not hard to see why the story of Napoleon Bonaparte—a man who emerged from obscurity to marshal large numbers of people and matériel to realize his...
With cars and kaiju, artists Umar Rashid and Frieda Toranzo Jaeger subvert American myth
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 1816, Kentucky-born portraitist William Edward West created a print depicting the battlefield death of British Maj. Gen. Edward Michael Pakenham at the Battle of New Orleans. At the time, ...
April 4, 1818: Thirteen stripes only, Congress changes flag design
WHTM via Yahoo News· 3 months agoWASHINGTON (WHTM) — It all started in 1777. On June 14 of that year, the Second Continental Congress...