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Cold War Currency. Writing his own postscript to the invasion, Fidel Castro last week turned the 1,000 prisoners he took at the Bay of Pigs into cold war currency. Recalling Spain's exchange of Napoleon's soldiers for pigs,* Castro told a crowd of whooping peasants: "We are a little more refined. We will exchange them for bulldozers." The price would be 500 bulldozers. "Otherwise they must pay by hard work, very hard work, digging trenches and building fortifications." After a weekend celebration of his newly awarded Lenin Peace Prize, Castro sent a committee of ten prisoners...
...aviation, but the Industrial Revolution was transforming England; bold ideas were sprouting in a climate of change. In 1792 Cayley was already experimenting with a model helicopter. He came down to earth for a while in 1804 and designed artillery shells for the British navy to shoot at Napoleon. But his journal shows that he was also searching for a light, powerful engine to drive some sort of airplane. In 1809 he published an extraordinary scientific treatise, "On Aerial Navigation," that outlines most of the principles of aeronautics...
...founding of L'Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, where "they spent several months of every year in examinations to weed out the weak and encourage the strong," said Courant. The Germans followed suit with a technical school in 1793, and both institutions collected the best minds of all ages. Napoleon drew on the Ecole for his Egyptian campaign, taking the celebrated mathematician Fourier along to decipher hieroglyphics, Courant related...
...thought he was kind of funny there at first." said a patrolman. "But then he started acting like Napoleon, saying he demanded Jade Beach, he demanded the right to drink beer in the street, he demanded this and that." With the aid of a utility-truck ladder, Dalluge was pulled from the traffic light and off to pokey, given a 70-day sentence for inciting a riot and resisting arrest. Next morning he was thinking of home and mother. "What'll she think?" he asked nervously. "Do you suppose she's heard...
...Wolf in the Sheepfold. To their artistic differences, master and disciple then added political ones. David was a passionate partisan of the Revolution; Ingres seemed wholly indifferent to the comings and goings of monarchies, republics and empires. He painted Napoleon as First Consul and Emperor, and when the Bourbons came back, he painted them too. He did a portrait of Louis Phillipe's oldest son, and during the Second Empire he turned out more Napoleons...