Word: napoleonism
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...While some editorialists heap on the derision, others just puzzle over how a metaphysical twist on a familiar idea—long available in books like Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” and Norman Vincent Peale’s “Power of Positive Thinking”—is able to occupy the number two spot on the Amazon.com bestsellers list...
...wars and revolutions; a bit of bother in the outre-mer hardly fazes them. Both firms were built around water concessions first granted in the 19th century. The Compagnie Gnrale des Eaux, which evolved into Veolia, was born in 1853 when the progressive councilors of Emperor Napoleon III granted a group of investors the concession to provide water to the city of Lyon. It was such a hit on the Paris stock market that the company soon spun off its own bank, Socit Gnrale. Competing bank Crdit Lyonnais parried in 1880 with the creation...
...glorious successes and humiliating defeats: American frigates beat British ships; Detroit fell to the enemy. The crisis came in 1814, when Napoleon's defeat freed British resources for a final push in the U.S. The British tried, and failed, to take Lake Champlain in upstate New York. They burned Washington but were stopped outside Baltimore (a battle that inspired The Star-Spangled Banner), and they prepared to attack New Orleans...
Balthazar Napoleon de Bourbon may be the heir to the lapsed French throne. That sounds reasonable enough-except that the portly 48-year-old is also a decidedly un-Gallic lawyer from the central Indian city of Bhopal. Nevertheless, according to the book Le Rajah de Bourbon, published last week by European blueblood Prince Michael of Greece (a Bourbon scion himself), Balthazar is a direct descendant of Jean de Bourbon, a swashbuckling nephew of Henri IV who joined the court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1560. While Jean's progeny faded into obscurity in the East, Henri...
...love that White Stripes song We're Going to Be Friends that they used for the Napoleon Dynamite theme. I've always thought it was just a sweet, beautiful little song, maybe because I've watched Napoleon Dynamite a bazillion times...