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A candy maker helped popularize canning by bottling everything from eel to eggs to peaches
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 5 months agoNapoleon wanted to conquer the world, but he lost thousands of soldiers to starvation, disease, and...
Opinion: Genealogy research reveals the U.N. beneath our skins
Corpus Christi Caller-Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoWe think of America as the great melting pot where every nation, culture, language, and religion in...
On This Day, March 4: 4 convicted in 1993 World Trade Center bombing
United Press International via Yahoo News· 3 months agoMourners lay flowers at the Reflecting Pools on February 26 at the annual remembrance ceremony at...
Napoleon Bonaparte Is the Subject of a New Movie ‘Napoleon’
Biography via Yahoo News· 6 months agoNapoleon Bonaparte was a French military general and emperor of France from 1804 to 1815. Read about...
Son of Franklinton's founder recounted 'marvelous changes' in Columbus after founding
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn Saturday, June 3, 1871, a large group of people gathered in Columbus to hear local resident...
What Is Napoleon Cognac And How Long Is It Aged?
Tasting Table via Yahoo News· 3 months agobottle and glass of courvoisier cognac - Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images Cognac, a type of brandy native to the idyllic hills of the Cognac region of...
Fact Check: Are Pirates Who Hijacked Measuring Tools Intended for Thomas Jefferson the Reason US...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 9 months agoericfoltz / Getty Images Claim: In the 1790s, piracy of a ship carrying metric standards intended...
Napoleon and Josephine Had a Stormy and Unfaithful 13-Year Marriage
Biography via Yahoo News· 3 months agoNapoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais before becoming the French emperor. Their...
In the rakish footsteps of Lord Byron
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA statue of Lord Byron stands near the heart of Athens - Getty It looks a little incongruous, the moment you set eyes upon it. There, at the south-west...
150 years old and still kicking: As KC public celebrates anniversary, memories abound
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 6 months agoCarrie Westlake Whitney earned the moniker “Mother of the Kansas City Public Library” by nurturing...
