Word: napoleonism
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Decades ago, a controversial novel stirred England and America. Its action took place in 1984, and its theme was the encroachments of a future authoritarian state. The book was The Napoleon of Notting Hill, written in 1904, when George Orwell was an infant. The author was Gilbert Keith Chesterton, a man perpetually in advance of, and behind, his time...
...fatal for the U.S. and for the whole continent. It is hardly necessary to recall the case of Fidel Castro, whom Washington pushed toward Moscow (or to whom, at least, the U.S. gave the pretext for falling into Soviet arms). Without firing a shot, the Soviet Union obtained what Napoleon III in the 19th century and Wilhelm II in the 20th could not: a political and military base in the Americas...
...ensure that his 'dead souls' really were dead, [the Ruza manager] went out to the municipal cemetery and meticulously copied down the names of dead people from the gravestones and entered them on his list. These names included some people who had been buried even before Napoleon's invasion, to which Ruza fell victim...
...longest (400 meters) passenger train in all Europe. Its eleven wagons-lits, three restaurant cars and bar car, all first class, can accommodate 194 passengers; there are two cars for the crew of 30. It may be the greatest display of grandeur the Boulonnais have seen since Napoleon and his army gathered there in 1805 for an invasion of England that never took place...
...branch in its right talons, a cluster of 13 arrows (for the original states) in its left. Americans were not the first to adopt eagles as symbols of independence, courage and power: European cave men decorated their walls with drawings of eagles, and rulers from the Roman Caesars to Napoleon chose the bird as their emblem. But no people took to eagles like the Americans to Old Baldie, which has adorned everything from 19th century $20 gold pieces and 20th century quarters to brass door knockers and even mass-produced "colonial-style" paper-towel dispensers. American craftsmen have featured...