Word: napoleons
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...note in English for Jean Pierre Blanchard so that the French balloonist, on his pioneering flight over the Delaware River, would not panic the New Jersey natives. Thomas Jefferson benefited from early airmail in 1803: a carrier pigeon flew from New York to Washington bearing the good news that Napoleon had agreed to the Louisiana Purchase. Teddy Roosevelt was the first occupant of the White House to fly, even though he was no longer President when he did so. After some difficulty getting through the wires supporting the wings, he boarded a Wright biplane in St. Louis in 1910, flew...
...result, Frederic Chapin, the American chargé d'affaires in San Salvador, persuaded President José Napoleon Duarte to back a further investigation. Worried about her safety, U.S. officials based Torres in Washington and flew her to Central America for the proceedings...
...beings are the only ones who make money writing about it, and it is the Wallaces of course - father, daughter, mother and son-who have reduced the practice to its final and most lucrative essence: an encyclopedia of what our celebrated betters, lessers, do between the sheets. How was Napoleon in bed? Or Victor Hugo, Eva Perón or Virginia Woolf? Just ask the Wallaces. (The short answers: terrible, terrific, often and rarely...
...miscellany of letters from Napoleon, Copernicus, Erasmus, Rossini, Queen Christina of Sweden and Mary Queen of Scots. Not included is the legendary erotica collection widely rumored to be hidden somewhere in the Vatican Archives...
...church papers to be gathered into one central archive. Said he, in a decree written in 1612: "We order you, custodian of our archives, under pain of our displeasure ... to allow no one whatever, on any excuse, to consult these books." Hardly had the papers been assembled when Napoleon seized the whole collection and carted it off to Paris. It was restored to Rome after the Congress of Vienna...