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On This Day, May 16: Joan of Arc canonized as saint
United Press International via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoFile Photo by Eco Clement/UPI On this date in history: In 1804, the French Senate declared Napoleon Bonaparte emperor. In 1871, U.S. Marines landed in...
The Story of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's American Descendants - Our American Stories |...
iHeartRadio· 3 days agoOn this episode of Our American Stories, The History Guy unpacks the largely forgotten saga of the Bonapartes who came to America. The story illustrates the pretensions and complexity of < ...
Bridgerton, Lady Whistledown, and the Secret History of High-Society Gossip
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 4 hours ago“They knew as much about what was happening in Paris as they did London,” she says. “Besides...
Emilia Wickstead Launches Vacation Wear Collaboration for a Dolce Vita Lifestyle
WWD via Yahoo News· 1 day agoPassalacqua dates back to 1787 and over the years has hosted the likes of Napoleon Bonaparte,...
The Day Most Important to Understanding the Israel-Palestine Conflict Is Here
Slate· 1 day agoThe Holy Land and its syzygy of faiths has no natives, only interlopers. Of the millions of...
101-year-old World War II veteran from Pennsylvania receives France’s highest honor
Stars and Stripes· 13 hours agoA 101-year-old from Linfield, a thrice-wounded veteran of some of World War II’s most famous and deadliest battles, has received France’s highest honor — the Legion of Honor — from the French ...
Lu Dort is the undrafted elbow grease of the Thunder
SB Nation· 3 days agoAt the turn of the 19th century, the French God King Napoleon Bonaparte had a nagging, annoying problem on his hands. It was half a world away in Saint...
‘Merci beaucoup,’ Ernest Scango: World War II veteran Army paratrooper receives French Legion of...
Citrus Chronicle Online· 1 day agoIn 1943, Ernest Scango worked in a Pennsylvania steel mill. He was 20 years old and some of his...
It can’t just be the brain worm: what the hell is wrong with RFK, Jr?
Boing Boing· 1 day agoRarely have I seen anyone who presents as such a normal, intelligent, and erudite dude have such profoundly dangerous ideas as RFK, Jr. His brain farts over the years were not harmless, but ...
Long (Political) Covid
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 days agoMaybe libertarianism never was a school of political thought at all. Schools of political thought are the work of many hands. Political auteurs—sui...
