Word: napoleonism
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Galoshes. When Napoleon's Marshal Jean Bernadotte became Charles XIV of Sweden in 1818, he was afraid that revolutionaries might endanger his throne. "Sire," said one of his ministers, "the only danger to which you are exposed in Sweden is a cold, and you can avoid that by wearing galoshes...
...Napoleon's foolhardy bravery is an old story to most schoolboys. "Forward, comrades!" cried the Little Corporal at the battle of Montereau. "The cannon ball that will hit me has not been cast...
...Gaulle may become another Louis Napoleon, Bethoin conceded to a questioner, but added, "the De Gaullists are the only alternative to Communism...
Minarets & Masters. Founded in the same decade as Cairo, Al Azhar has known trouble: earthquakes have crumbled the university's minarets, Napoleon's artillery have chipped its walls, and a succession of foreign masters have ruled Egypt. Al Azhar has survived them all-even Saladin, who destroyed its library and exiled its faculty. The university's 32-man Senatus is the highest religious and educational authority in Islam; its rector is the nearest thing to a Moslem pope...
...prize Airedale bitch, which wore ribbons to the ceremony; vows were read for her and her dog. *In 1802, after the Peace of Amiens, a group of British residents of Calcutta presented the temple of Kali with 5,000 rupees as a thank offering for victories over Napoleon. A century later Kali became a symbol of anti-British Indian nationalism, a place to which Mahatma Gandhi succeeded. That this substitution was only temporary was indicated not only by the killing but by Gandhi's recent loss of popularity among Hindus. Because he preached communal peace, Hindu extremists last week...