Napoleon Bonaparte News
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Few historical figures have as contentious an image as Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Nick Leeson, the trader whose wrong- way bets on Japanese stocks ruined Barings Plc, is joining a mediation firm to advise Irish borrowers looking to renegotiate debts in the wake of the real estate collapse.
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Who done it? A bloody kitchen knife, a smudged letter, a corpse toppling from a bathtub. The viewer becomes a police inspector sifting clues at a crime scene.
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Guests were transported to 1812 last night at the Russian Embassy. Tchaikovsky’s overture echoed down the red carpet leading to where Napoleon Bonaparte awaited arrivals.
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Name an inventor, evoke an invention. Gutenberg, moveable type. Galileo, the telescope; Samuel F.B. Morse, the telegraph; Matthew Murray, the sliding D- valve.
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South African winemakers are increasing sales to “non-traditional markets” such as Canada and China to compensate for declining purchases in the U.K., according to Wines of South Africa , which represents exporters.
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Beneath the costly modern splendor of Paris, far removed from its Michelin-starred restaurants and $2,000-a-night luxury hotel rooms, there lies a hidden treasure of history, food and drink.
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Herbert Lom, who played the twitching, exasperated Parisian police inspector driven to the edge of madness and beyond by Peter Sellers’s Jacques Clouseau in the “Pink Panther” movie franchise, has died. He was 95.
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Jean Cocteau’s “Orpheus,” newly restored by Criterion in a terrific two-disc DVD set, presents his deeply personal version of the mythological Greek poet whose songs could charm wild beasts.
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Russian-art sales in New York, once boisterous affairs spread over some days and hawking everything from Tsarist silver to Soviet spacecraft, have shrunk.
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