Word: napoleonic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...That kind of networking was something Barnhill couldn’t have learned at home, his father said in a phone interview from Napoleon, Ohio, were he was picking up a delivery at a Campbell Soup plant...
...tomorrow’s performance has been a rocky one, both in the institution’s recent and distant past. But its members and leaders remain optimistic that the bicentennial concert will signal a bright future for an organization that has played on since the days when Napoleon walked the earth.‘SERENADE THEIR DAUGHTERS’Though it’s considered venerable nowadays, the organization did not always have a perfect reputation. Indeed, the University so loathed their practices that the administration once tried to stamp the group out.The Pierian Sodality—named after...
...Britons who crowded to see it in 1812 would not have missed Turner's mocking reference to Napoleon, who had just begun his advance into Russia. Twelve years earlier, the Little Colonel had been famously painted by Jacques-Louis David on a rearing horse, preparing to cross the Alps at St. Bernard Pass. The maelstrom that engulfs Hannibal, who would eventually be worn down by the Romans, is Turner's way of predicting that Napoleon would be cut down to size too. In the same way, The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834, Turner...
...Afghan capital's foreign community, Victor and Cressaty have opened a branch in Kabul's sandbag-ringed NATO compound. This is so that troops - who aren't allowed around town without a humvee escort - can get a decent meal with relative ease. To quote the restaurateurs' compatriot, Napoleon Bonaparte, "an army marches on its stomach." Dishes like L'Atmo's almond trout, duck breast with peaches or grilled king prawns flambéed with whiskey should see them quite a distance...
...Nicolas Sarkozy - Napoleon III or Mick Jagger? "Sarko," the rock star, struts his stuff with gold chain and bared chest, hanging out with the high and mighty. The third Napoleon, French Emperor from 1852 to 1870, came to power in a putsch, installing an authoritarian monarchy...