Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tide of humanity that has washed over the American continent during the last three or four decades of the 20th century has had profound consequences, to be sure. But in relative terms, it is no match for the waves that came ashore during the 19th. Between Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, more than 30 million Europeans left their homelands -- some involuntarily -- to settle in the U.S. It was by far the greatest mass movement in human history. The influx continues, in ever greater variety. For people...
...Napoleon III had a taste for ostentation. On the ceiling of his gilded reception room in the Louvre is a fresco of the goateed sovereign himself, sitting on his throne and surrounded by puffy clouds and horn-blowing cherubs. . Flying toward him are two figures brandishing architectural plans and a model of the royal palace. The painting commemorates the Emperor's 1852 decision to expand the edifice by adding a new north wing, named after Cardinal Richelieu, to house his private apartments and expanding bureaucracy...
...200th anniversary, completed Pei's vision of a subterranean crossroads linking every wing to a central starting point. Before the renovation, the entrances were confusing, and the Richelieu wing, occupied by the Finance Ministry, had been subdivided into a warren of cluttered, low- ceilinged offices. Apart from the Napoleon III apartments, the entire structure had to be gutted and rebuilt by an international team of architects under Pei's supervision...
Frustrated at doing police work by the book, detective Wade Preston likes to hark back to the cops he idolizes: "Baretta, Starsky and Hutch, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin -- those guys had fun!" His partner replies impatiently, "Those are TV cops. They're not real." Whines the TV junkie: "Who says everything has to be real...
...Aubrey/Maturin voyage is typically tempestuous. Their ship, the Surprise, is rocked by an underwater volcanic eruption. They capture the Franklin, a privateer sailing under American colors and carrying a Frenchman who may be a spy for Napoleon. Next comes a full-fledged pirate ship, then a whaler ripe for the taking, and then a particularly nasty storm called a wind- gall. Aubrey sustains some serious injuries. Maturin is kept busy cleaning up after various forms of carnage; the duty includes performing amputations without anesthesia. "This will hurt for a moment," he tells one patient, "but it will not last. Hold...