Word: napoleonic
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...could just admit that America was overpowered, like Napoleon, by the strategic superiority shown in Waterloo, a song about 19th century Belgium that makes you want to dance. Sometimes, as that song says, you feel like you win when you lose...
...Waterloo, as you may have heard, Napoleon did surrender. Oh, yeah, and America has met its destiny in quite a similar way. Having held out admirably for decades, the U.S. has at last fully succumbed to the charms of the stickiest thing to come out of Scandinavia since the sauna. When 14-time Oscar nominee Meryl Streep is in 3,000 cinemas nationwide singing Dancing Queen, it's time to break out ze white flag, mes fr?...
...whirlwind when she told an interviewer that "The Colossus was not Goya's work. "We were attacked by the press," says Mena, "by academics defending traditional interpretations, by nationalists for whom Goya was Spain's somber bullfighter, by political liberals for whom Goya was a revolutionary who stood against Napoleon. I understood something of what religious persecution is like...
...Created in 1802 by Napoleon, the Legion's original mission of recognizing "outstanding services rendered to France or a feat befitting humanity" was intended to replace inherited aristocratic titles with an award earned for distinguished conduct. But many in France share Porte's view that a gush of entertainers has crowded out the monumental artists, philanthropists, humanitarians, and makers of history for which the award was originally intended...
Many a king has marched into Naples. German-born monarchs sailed in from Sicily. Bourbon conquerors came over from Spain. Napoleon's brother and brother-in-law landed in their royal vestments too. And now, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the exquisitely attired and democratically elected incarnation of modern Italian royalty swept into this troubled coastal city, bringing his can-do Milanese attitude and a small army of cabinet ministers. But these days, conquering Naples is most of all a matter of picking up the garbage...