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...going to be less like me and more like previous People of the Century, guys like Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great and Napoleon. I started to research these giants of history until I found out they didn't have websites and gave up. But I basically suspect I need to take over a large piece of the world, give the people something useful like libraries or fruit smoothies, and get myself a cool name. I like Joel. I also like Joel, but I'm not sure I'll ever find that button on my keyboard again. I plan to amass...
...book goes beyond what might be expected of such a compilation, offering up entries not only on celebrated designers from Paul Poiret to Helmut Lang but also on tastemakers generally less well known--for example, textile creator Zika Ascher, cobbler Pietro Yantorny and early 20th century cosmetics manufacturer Alexandre Napoleon Bourjoi. Another plus: at $39.95, The Fashion Book is about one-sixth the price of a Hermes scarf...
...Napoleon thought of one, but not until 192 years later would a tunnel under the Channel linking England and the Continent be finished. Beginning on their respective shores, teams of French and English sandhogs used 1,000-ton boring machines to burrow through the 24 miles of chalk, clearing 20 million tons. The two sides...
Power not only corrupts, but it fascinates--absolutely. Consider the cult of the biography, the aura of the Kennedy Camelot myth and the endless tabloid intrigues of the British royals. From Shakespeare to Lewinsky, Napoleon to The Godfather, few things are as enthralling as the machinations of power: trying to seize it, trying to keep it, losing yourself in it. In its best moments, Shekhar Kapur's new biopic Elizabeth fascinates with the gleam and glamour of the very, very powerful. Though its Elizabethan Godfather pulp style strains the limits of historical revisionism, the spectacle of young Elizabeth's entrance...
...going to miss me, but I'm going to miss him. I'll miss his knowledge of Prussian history, his unerring sense of what the Duke of Wellington would do in any situation, his grandiose sense of walking in the boots of Winston Churchill and Ulysses S. Grant. Like Napoleon, he was tall enough to see a future invisible to lesser mortals. A global visionary, he wrote in a calendar unearthed by Slate magazine that on June 30, 1993, he was going to "articulate the vision of civilizing humanity" and, when that was done, "define, plan and begin to organize...