Word: napoleon
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There is no one named Napoleon in Sobel's history. Aaron Burr does not shoot Hamilton. There is no Civil War, although the C.N.A. and the United States of Mexico fight the Rocky Mountain War in 1845-52. Karl Marx remains an obscure German professor, but Bernard Kramer, an inspired monopolist, builds a business empire that becomes a world power by the middle of the 20th century...
...standard defense for smuggling is the Elgin Marbles ploy: if Lord Elgin had not "rescued" the Parthenon sculptures from the Turks in Athens, they would probably no longer exist. The British Museum was built on the Empire's plunder. Napoleon had no qualms about ransacking Egypt for the Louvre. Likewise, since the Latin Americans or Italians "cannot look after" their own archaeological wealth, it is the collectors who preserve it by extracting it from their hands...
...Mexico, the kidnapers' leader turned out to be Raymond Napoleon, 24, a primary-school teacher, whose relatives are being held in jail. "I belong to no party," he declared, "but I am part of a group of students and teachers who are fighting the Duvalier government." The twelve prisoners he had freed included several student leaders and a union leader, Ulrick Jolly, who had spent most of the past ten years in jail. The 13th prisoner, Ambassador Knox, who plans to resign soon anyway, flew to Washington declaring, understandably, "I need a rest...
...every French schoolchild learns to his sorrow, is a dictation exercise full of traps for the unwary. Prosper Mérimée, author of the original Carmen, once offered a 248-word specimen as a test at the imperial court in Compiègne, and Napoleon III committed 75 errors. (Empress Eugènie made only 62.) Nothing much has changed since then in the stern regulations governing how the French teach their language to their children. Grading is fierce (more than five mistakes on a dictée bring a zero), and two out of three students flunk...
...press: well-publicized conquests, a dramatic assassination, a sympathetic portrait by one William Shakespeare. Yet historians generally agree that Caesar's lesser-known nephew and heir, Gaius Octavius Caesar-later to be called Augustus-was in many ways a greater man. His conquests endured longer than those of Napoleon and Alexander; the imperial system he painfully built took five centuries to decay; the Pax Romana he warred to achieve was one of the longest periods of relative peace that history has ever known. The man himself, however, even in this excellent study by Novelist and Poet John Williams...