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5 days ago · Napoleon was born on Corsica shortly after the island’s cession to France by the Genoese. He was the fourth, and second surviving, child of Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer, and his wife, Letizia Ramolino. His father’s family, of ancient Tuscan nobility, had emigrated to Corsica in the 16th century. Carlo Buonaparte had married the beautiful and ...
- The Directory
Summarize This Article The Directory of Napoleon I....
- Exile on St. Helena
Napoleon I - Exile, St. Helena, Emperor: On October 15,...
- Napoleonic Code
Napoleonic Code, French civil code enacted on March 21,...
- Napoleon Summary
Napoleon, French Napoléon Bonaparte orig. Italian Napoleone...
- Timeline
Timeline of events in the life of Napoleon I, emperor of...
- Concordat of 1801
Concordat of 1801, agreement reached on July 15, 1801,...
- Bonaparte Family
Bonaparte Family, a family made famous by Napoleon I,...
- Saint Helena
St. Helena (born c. 248, Drepanon?, Bithynia, Asia...
- Napoleonic Wars
How did the Napoleonic Wars end? After the Allies entered...
- War With Britain
Napoleon I - Continental System, Trafalgar, Waterloo: From...
- The Directory
2 days ago · The Seleucid Empire in 200 BC (before expansion into Anatolia and Greece). A revival would begin when Seleucus II's younger son, Antiochus III the Great , took the throne in 223 BC. Although initially unsuccessful in the Fourth Syrian War against Egypt, which led to a defeat at the Battle of Raphia (217 BC), Antiochus would prove himself to be ...
3 days ago · Galileo (born February 15, 1564, Pisa [Italy]—died January 8, 1642, Arcetri, near Florence) was an Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method. His formulation of (circular) inertia ...
- Albert Van Helden
- Galileo was a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and stren...
- Galileo invented an early type of thermometer. Although he did not invent the telescope, he made significant improvements to it that enabled astron...
- In 1610 Galileo discovered the four biggest moons of Jupiter (now called the Galilean moons) and the rings of Saturn.
- For his heresy in claiming that Earth orbits the Sun, Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Roman Catholic Church in 1633. He was not t...
- Galileo influenced scientists for decades to come, not least in his willingness to stand up to the church to defend his findings. His improvements...
5 days ago · Topline. Three people who work for an Oklahoma-based missionary group, including a young U.S. couple and a Haiti-based staff member, were shot and killed after being ambushed by gang members near ...
5 days ago · Carlos Acutis, a teenage boy who died after a battle with leukemia in 2006, is set to become the first millennial saint in the Catholic Church.
5 days ago · Aristotle was born on the Chalcidic peninsula of Macedonia, in northern Greece. His father, Nicomachus, was the physician of Amyntas III (reigned c. 393–c. 370 bce ), king of Macedonia and grandfather of Alexander the Great (reigned 336–323 bce ). After his father’s death in 367, Aristotle migrated to Athens, where he joined the Academy ...
4 days ago · Rav Feinhandler, author of the Teshuvos Avnei Yashfei, often quotes the psak halacha of a "Gaon Echad" who was eventually known to be Rav Elyashiv. Why didn't he write in the teshuvos tha...
