In one of the strangest new bids to get tourism dollars,
Yves Jégo, the current veep of France's Radical party and the former Overseas Secretary of State, has announced plans to start raising funds for a new theme park dedicated to
Napoleon.
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posted by suburbanbeatnik
on Jan 22, 2012 -
34 comments
Dr. John K. Lattimer died earlier this week. &nCThe fact that he was the former chairman of the urology department at Columbia University is the
least interesting fact about him. He was an expert in ballstics and became the first private citizen granted access to Kennedy's autopsy photos (he made this
drawing to explain the path of the bullet). He treated survivors of the
Hindenburg explosion and
Nazi defendants at Nuremberg. He was also a collector of some very odd items: a pair of Eva Braun's earrings, the cyanide ampule that Hermann Goring used to
commit suicide [.pdf], the key to Lincoln's presidental box at Ford's Theater. Oh, and he bought
Napoleon's penis in 1977 for $3000. Some think it should finally be allowed to
rest in peace.
posted by scblackman
on May 19, 2007 -
9 comments
On October 17, 1815, following
The 100 Days and Waterloo,
Napoleon Bonaparte
arrived on the
Island of St Helena, where he would remain until his
death (
mysterious or
otherwise) in 1821.
Discovered by the Portuguese in 1502, St Helena had a long and interesting
history before Napoleon arrived, but that
history was overshadowed by the story of the Emperor's last years,
living in captive exile at the
simple yet beautiful Longwood House. Victorians had
an insatiable interest for information about the
remote island. Today, the
picturesque Island is a
a tiny bit of England in the South Atlantic, where
coffee and
tourism (indeed, what some might call
pilgrimages) are the main sources of income.
posted by anastasiav
on Oct 17, 2003 -
3 comments
