Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tracking Far. Electronic tracking told the rest of the story: Atlas coursed over an ocean at 16,000 m.p.h.. past the equator, past Ascension island, to a point near St. Helena, where the exiled and imprisoned Napoleon died, until, only 1,200 miles from the African coast and only 30 minutes after launching, its nose cone shot down into the South Atlantic. The distance: a fully programed 6,300 statute miles, equal to the span between Denver and Peking, or between an Alaskan launching site and any major target in the Northern Hemisphere. Thus, after only 17 months...
Dreaming of empire, France's Napoleon III sent mild-mannered, well-intentioned Austrian Archduke Maximilian to rule Mexico while the U.S. was busy fighting its Civil War. But Napoleon had to abandon "Emperor" Maximilian to the advancing forces of Mexican Patriot Benito Juárez, and the pathetic Austrian went gallantly before a firing squad in Mexican shirt and cowboy trousers, dividing his few remaining gold coins among his executioners...
...they do, Author Crompton insists, the bees know that they give their lives for a good cause. The most successful career woman in the insect world converts her useless ovipositor into a weapon of aggression-and self-destruction. Only the queen bee has it made. Not for nothing did Napoleon have his robes embroidered with the bee symbol: that belated Beelzebub knew who was Lord of the Flies...
...China sleep," warned Napoleon nearly a century and a half ago. "When she awakens the world will be sorry." Eying the path along which Mao proposes to lead an awakened China, most of the world, if not yet sorry, is already apprehensive. In Warsaw recently a Communist editor nervously reflected that "the entire Polish nation represents little more than a slight miscalculation in Chinese population statistics for one year." In the U.S. some thoughtful men argue that within a generation the U.S. will be helping bolster Soviet defenses against Communist China. Writing in London's New Statesman, British Socialist...
...acts like a Rover Boy, looks like the early Skeezix with his upswept lock of hair, and is easily Europe's most popular comic-strip character. French children once named him their favorite hero in a magazine poll, gave him nearly three times as many votes as Napoleon. Compared to U.S. characters, Tintin has a close kinship to Little Orphan Annie in his devotion to morality. Like Annie, oddly enough, Tintin has undeveloped eyes, e.g., she has circles but no dots; he has dots but no circles...