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...leaves, Korans 25 mm wide (written so the verses form the shapes of animals) and, in the margins of verses by the poet Hafiz, annotations by the Mughal Emperors Humayun and Jahangir. There are even jottings by Byron - two verses added by the English poet to his "Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte." With so few visitors, director Imtiaz Ahmad will dig out his most precious pieces for you to peruse over chai and spicy chips. "The academic traditions of this city will endure," he says. "They are weakened, but not lost." It's almost enough to restore your faith in Bihar...
...Warren awaited Ms. Brophy with a candlelit dinner on the apartment building’s roof. “He got down on one knee and proposed…and then we went to go see ‘Napoleon Dynamite,’” Ms. Brophy adds...
...second third of The Plot turns into a minor detective story as a correspondent for the London Times discovers the similarity between Protocols and a nearly forgotten French parody of Napoleon III. A major portion of The Plot compares passages from both sources in an effort to expose the obvious similarities and outright plagiaries, a comparison that the Times used to declare The Protocols a fake in 1921. The final, melancholy third of The Plot examines the enduring virus of Protocols, which, in spite of numerous, incontrovertible findings of being wholly forged, continues to be published the world over...
...suspect that I am not. I like to tell myself that I am in pretty sane company. The game certainly has its pantheon of upstanding citizens. While ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin preferred to eschew the Paris opera for chess at the Caf? de la R?gence. (Excellent choice.) Napoleon played, although to judge by one of his games, a diagrammed and illustrated copy of which hangs in my office, he was a far better general. Nabokov was a fine player and renowned composer of chess problems. And the sanest man I know, Natan Sharansky, is a chess master who once...
...early 20th century Europe were blind to forces right in front of them, forces that would soon send their entire world crashing down in flames. Trench warfare would soon break out in a continent that had not known generalized war between the great powers since the time of Napoleon, and it would prove to be wildly more destructive than any previous conflict. Just as drastic was in the increase in political violence: In the first year of Communist rule in Russia ,more people were executed by the regime than during the entire 19th century...