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...Napoleon Bonaparte...
...England, broadcasting to Latin America for the BBC, and working for various international organizations. All the while he poured out-in English, French and Spanish-a torrent of political books, literary essays, novels, poems, plays, histories and biographies. (His Bolivar dubbed the great liberator "a vulgar imitator of Napoleon.") In Anarchy or Hierarchy (1937), Madariaga called for political equality but social hierarchy, since he believed that "inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty." His decades of exile, he once told a reporter, were not too bad since, he said. "I carry Spain inside...
...settled a dispute over who owned the 190 sq. mi. territory by agreeing to rule it in tandem. The Spanish title of co-Prince was handed down in a direct line to the present bishop, while on the French side it passed to the Kings of Navarre, then to Napoleon, and ultimately to Presidents of the French republic. Andorrans annually pay token tribute to their co-Princes. In even-numbered years the bishop gets $12, plus six hams, six chickens and six cheeses. In odd-numbered years the French President gets $460, but no victuals...
Douglas MacArthur is one of the major embarrassments of American history. On one hand he was, without quibble or question, a military genius of the rank of Alexander, Hannibal and Napoleon. On the other hand, as this flawed but fascinating biography makes clear, he could be one of the pettiest and most arrogant men ever to have worn the uniform of the U.S. Army...
Silver Fizz Perrier water, this year's fashionable fizz, has been available in the U.S. since 1908. That same year, Cartier, the international jeweler, also arrived on these shores. Moreover, the two French enterprises originally enjoyed the patronage of Napoleon III, who had good taste if not much else. So how to celebrate their twinnage? A diamond-studded Perrier decanter, peut-étre? Nothing so bourgeois. What Cartier has designed for Perrier is a $45 three-piece sterling silver set consisting of an artfully shaped bottle opener and two engraved bottle stoppers...