Madame Tussauds, now a global wax museum brand, has its roots in the French Revolution, where Marie Tussaud crafted death ...

Napoleone di Buonaparte was born on August 15 ... and his name was Gaulified to Napoleon Bonaparte as he and his family painfully accommodated themselves to French rule. In fact, he was extremely ...

There Corsica It is not Italian because the Republic of Genoawho owned the island for almost five centuries from the ...

"Love him or hate him, Napoleon is a figure probably unrivaled in modern history." Today Jonathon Riley, a British General ...

The closed-door trial was part of a crackdown on dissent that reached an unprecedented scale after Moscow launched its ...