“Look at that outfit Napoleon’s wearing in this painting — kind of Roman emperor, right?” In his memoirs, Lafayette recounted how he turned down Napoleon's offer of a seat on the Senate ...

Confident of yet another triumph, Napoleon’s private secretary Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne wrote in Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte that the general had even set a precise date for the ...

Even exploring for uranium with boreholes releases radon, which is a noble gas, tasteless and invisible. Radon is radioactive ...

Although he would not become famous for his Jewish work until some thirty years later, Oppenheim painted one of his most famous works, Return of a Jewish Volunteer from the Wars of Liberation to His F ...

Of all the European capitals, perhaps the French capital Paris has historically played the most important cultural role in the Arab world. Not only has the city been a magnet for ...

O ver the years, Cincinnati has found itself tangled in some unique and curious bathtub mythology. Since so much of our city’s history involved the manufacture of soap, that may not be surprising at ...

Among the 130 books he published were an anthology of Old Testament apocrypha; biographies of Napoleon I and the Caesars ... of original verse and two memoirs and left behind a vast correspondence ...

In the Krakow Naprzod a former comrade of Pilsudski has published his memoirs in connection with a trip to Berlin ... did not prevent him from preferring the biographies of Plutarch and Napoleon to ...