Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much had passed, he said, so quickly. This was the land that George Washington dreamed about, that Lewis and Clark had seen in 1804 and called "the most butifull Plains," that Thomas Jefferson had purchased for $15 million from Napoleon, that Chief Black Hawk had warred over. The Mormons went west that way, just a few miles south, their cuts in the sides of the hills for their carts still visible. Lawyer Abraham Lincoln had stood on a bluff just 100 miles west and picked the spot where he would start the Union Pacific Railroad three years later from...
MADAME RACAMIER, the elegant French hostess, must have expected some sort of unique, charming ingenu when she invited the wild boy of Aveyron to dinner at her chateau in 1801. Most of Parisian high society would be there, from the future king of Norway to Napoleon's valet de chambre. But of her guests Madame Racamier chose to seat beside her the thirteen-year-old wild boy (called Victor), anticipating an evening of compliments from this new talk of the town. Victor hardly obliged. After devouring his own meal (and part of hers as well), he burgled a dozen desserts...
...high tides washed through the huts, causing constant and costly repairs. Although the cottages were filled in the summer months, the resort never came close to breaking even. Brando was driven to distraction by "middle-aged ladies from Peoria telling me, 'Mr. Brando, we loved you as Napoleon'-Napoleon, for Christ's sake -and asking for my autograph, while their husbands shove me against the wall to pose with the little lady." Admits Brando: "It was a bad idea, and it was badly managed. Why did I do it? Because I love having projects, even bad ones...
...called "Little Napoleon...
Richard M. Nixon, the same guy who named "Patton" as his favorite movie, named the 1812 as his favorite piece of classical music. Not surprising, given his predilection for the militaristic. Ironically, the piece was written during a lull in national spirit, and commemorates the battle in which Napoleon was defeated on the outskirts of Moscow. Traces of the Marseilles fade out, the Russian national anthem creeps in, canons go off (at Lowell, a policeman generally shoots a rifle into a garbage can)--all culminating in the peals of jubilation emanating from those vibrant bells of the Moscow churches...