Word: napoleonism
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...crowd and released a bird that was nesting in his hair; Bobo Holloman, who pitched only one complete game in the majors-and that one a no-hitter. There are players whose names alone could render them immortal: Eli Grba, Fenton Mole, Eppa Rixey, Wally Pipp, Napoleon Lajoie. All these men, the immortals and the "flakes," exist like the game beyond the erosions of style and time...
...astonished to read that Napoleon had ransacked the antiquities of Egypt for the Louvre. It would have been difficult for him to do so. As everyone knows, he slipped out of the country in a small frigate with just a few followers, carefully concealing his departure from the rest of the expeditionary force. The latter would not have been in a better position to bring back any loot, as they made the trip on British ships after capitulation. What they might have gathered−including the famous Rosetta Stone−eventually found its way to the British Museum...
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...