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Deposed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will go down in history for the wrong reasons | Opinion
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOn a warm but stormy summer Paris day in 1794, Maximilien Robespierre, a leader of the French...
Europe's long and chequered history of rationing
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoThrough war, siege and social strife, Europe has a long and often painful history of rationing everything from food to fuel and water, sometimes with...
On This Day, July 27: Truce ends Korean War
United Press International via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA U.S. Marine orders captured North Korean soldiers to keep their hands up in 1950. On July 27, 1953, a truce officially ended the Korean War, which had...
Column: From BuzzFeed to Netflix, digital media promised revolution. And a bloody business it's been
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBuzzFeed News is the latest victim of a digital revolution that confused 'new' with 'sustainable.'...
From grain to gasoline: a brief world history of rationing
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoThrough war, siege and social strife, rich and poor countries across the world have had a long and...
Labour has confirmed that it’s now the stupid party
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIn 1794, the National Convention, a representative body designed to bypass the old governance of the Ancien Régime, voted to condemn one of its key...
Ridley Scott Concocts Another Bloated Historical Epic in Napoleon: Review
Consequence of Sound via Yahoo News· 7 months agoLike previous Ridley Scott historical epics, wait for the director's cut. Ridley Scott Concocts...
Napoleon and Josephine Had a Stormy and Unfaithful 13-Year Marriage
Biography via Yahoo News· 4 months agoNapoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais before becoming the French emperor. Their...
‘Napoleon’ Review: Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix Deliver a Film That Works Better as a Comedy...
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThose worried about a glorification of the dictator needn't have feared. You won't be prepared for...
Vanessa Kirby Knows ‘Napoleon’ Is Funny, but That’s Only Part of the ‘Extreme’ World She Needed to...
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe British actress steals the show in Ridley Scott's unhinged epic, and as she tells IndieWire,...