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[History: 1750-1900]: NAM SUMMIT TO SEEK END TO ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:58:05 +0000

SHARM EL-SHEIKH (Egypt), July 14 (Bernama) — Leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) are expected to issue a “strong” declaration on the issue of Palestine, with Egypt playing the lead role soon after taking over the helm of the 118-member grouping during a summit which begins here Wednesday.

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[History: 1750-1900]: ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ Star Gets His Own TV Series

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:55:31 +0000

If you liked Jon Heder in “Napoleon Dynamite,” get ready to see much more of him in a Comedy Central series planned for next year.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Thousands beheaded in French Revolution named online

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:07:37 +0000

The names of thousands of people beheaded during the French Revolution are going online for the first time on Wednesday through Ancestry.co.uk.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Napoleon’s chair found in storage

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:34:04 +0000

A mahogany bergere chair believed to have been used by Napoleon Bonaparte is rediscovered at a museum in Kent.

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[History: 1750-1900]: David Quigg: How Abraham Lincoln’s “Hot Letters ” Can Keep You From Going All Alice Hoffman

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:52:17 +0000

Today, just when I found myself musing that we can turn to Abraham Lincoln’s exemplary life and leadership to guide us through any dicey situation,…

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[History: 1750-1900]: Napoleon died of kidney failure: Danish doctor

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:39:47 +0000

Arne Soerensen, a retired Danish doctor, flips through thousands of pages of notes scribbled over 50 years of research and issues his diagnosis: Napoleon died of a kidney disease.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Napoleon died of kidney failure: Danish doctor

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:20:14 +0000

Arne Soerensen, a retired Danish doctor, flips through thousands of pages of notes scribbled over 50 years of research and issues his diagnosis: Napoleon died of a kidney disease.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Law firm and bank regret slave trade links

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:29:00 +0000

Investment bank Rothschild and top law firm Freshfields said on Wednesday they “greatly regretted” links between their 19th century founders and the slave trade.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Napoleon artifacts on display in Philadelphia

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:22:58 +0000

Almost two centuries after Napoleon Bonaparte met his Waterloo, all many people may know about him is that he was short. Except he wasn’t, really.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Ian Robson: Ed’s Jack the Ripper criticism is a bit rich

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:43:09 +0000

NICE to see former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie still breaking news stories . . . even if it was more than 120 years after the event.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Britain’s John Galliano does Napoleon of France

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:57:09 +0000

Britain’s diminutive king of fashion, John Galliano, paid homage Friday to another vertically challenged emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte of France.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Police unite to tackle Asian sex slave trade

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:25:23 +0000

Police officials in Asia have decided to form unprecedented joint operations to target modern day sex slave traders.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Geographic Profiling Works: Great White Sharks’ Hunting Skills As Refined As Jack The Ripper’s

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:29:02 +0000

What do great white sharks have in common with serial killers’ Refined hunting skills, according to a new article. Researchers have found that sharks hunt in a highly focused fashion, just like serial criminals.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Napoleon enthusiasts reenact Battle of Waterloo

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:28:52 +0000

More than 1000 Napoleon enthusiasts have reenacted the French leader’s historic defeat in the Battle of Waterloo.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Napoleon rides again as Waterloo re-staged

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:49:01 +0000

This weekend Napoleon’s great army threatened the peace of Europe once more, as 1,200 enthusiasts re-enacted the French leader’s historic defeat at Waterloo.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Time right for Arab-Israeli peace – Mubarak

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:42:02 +0000

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[History: 1750-1900]: Actor tackles French Revolution play

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:35:35 +0000

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[History: 1750-1900]: Honours: Order of the British Empire, Civil – MBE

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:45:40 +0000

Order of the British Empire

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[History: 1750-1900]: Sheldon Filger: Can the U.S. Win the War in Afghanistan’ What Napoleon Can Teach Obama About Guerrilla Warfare

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:10:20 +0000

Will President Obama’s approach on Afghanistan prove more efficacious than that of George W. Bush’ The lessons of history raise doubts that deserve serious reflection.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Blowback: sins of the British Empire hitting home

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:32:30 +0000

The collapsed British Empire’s 300-year plunder of the rest of the world is now coming home to roost, says George Monbiot .

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[History: 1750-1900]: Phoenix – A new French revolution

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:11:09 +0000

Thomas Mars is arguably the coolest Frenchman in pop. His girlfriend is the American director Sofia Coppola, she of off-beat, ethereal feature films like Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides (for which Mars helped mix some of the soundtrack). He has elfin features, peaking out above his often black, artfully dishevelled wardrobe, and is crippled by an enigmatically shy personality. There …

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[History: 1750-1900]: Israel hopes for Arab-Israeli reconciliation

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:06:20 +0000

Israel expressed hope on Thursday that US President Barack Obama’s landmark speech will lead to reconciliation with Arabs and Muslims but stressed that national security remains its top priority.

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[History: 1750-1900]: The Media Consortium: Weekly Immigration Wire: Modern Day Slave Trade Uncovered Immigration NewsLadder

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:56:22 +0000

by Nezua, TMC MediaWire Blogger The Wire will be brief this week, as I’m attending New America Media’s Expo and Awards at the University…

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[History: 1750-1900]: Queen Victoria gift doll being sold at auction

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:35:11 +0000

THE antique doll, a gift from Queen Victoria, in 1899. Picture by Jennifer Burton. AN ANTIQUE doll, given as a gift by Queen Victoria and handed down through the generations, is due to be sold at auction next month.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Text of Abraham Lincoln letter

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:07:35 +0000

Text of the letter written by Abraham Lincoln that the National Archives added to its collection on Thursday.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Jennifer M. Granholm: Michigan Will Lead the Green Industrial Revolution

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:08:50 +0000

Some doubters on this website have advocated “pulling the plug on Detroit.” Instead, I invite you to plug in to the power of American ingenuity and American transformation.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Sherlock Holmes battles Jack the Ripper in New Demo

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:17:00 +0000

Happy Memorial Day, and in the interest of keeping things memorably elliptical, how about some Sherlock Holmes time-tangling with Jack the Ripper’ In the crossover tradition of pairings like Freddy versus Jason and Alien versus Predator, meet Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper, the latest installment in developer Frogware’s critically well-thought-of Sherlock Holmes series.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Revealed: the woman who terrified the British Empire

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:15:56 +0000

On 1 August 1863, shortly after 6:15 in the evening, a frail and partially-blind queen who had spent much of her life raging against the British Empire, died in her bed on the top floor of a Kensington townhouse.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Wreck of HMS Victory endangered by trawler fleets

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:27:46 +0000

The wreck of HMS Victory is being slowly destroyed by fishing trawlers claim divers.

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[History: 1750-1900]: MPs warn on sex ’slave trade’

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:39:32 +0000

More than 5,000 mostly women and children have been smuggled into Britain to work as sex slaves and beggars, according to a parliamentary report into human trafficking released Thursday.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Trafficking ‘like new slave trade’

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:26:51 +0000

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[History: 1750-1900]: A tale of romance by the king of chick lit – Napoleon Bonaparte

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:00:21 +0000

• Novella about first love is translated into English • Historian pieced together manuscript of lost book Napoleon is already credited with writing some of the most romantic – or revolting, depending on your sensibilities – words in his urgent message to Josephine: “Will return to Paris tomorrow evening. Don’t wash.” Now the man the world knows as emperor, war hero and bogeyman, the ruthlessly …

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[History: 1750-1900]: Lily is Queen Victoria

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:53:00 +0000

Lily Allen performed as Queen Victoria at her one-off fancy dress show in London last night.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Napoleon Bonaparte – the romantic novelist

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:11:53 +0000

Napoleon Bonaparte’s romantic novel is set to be released in English.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Nigeria: No Apologies for Slave Trade, Says Aro Council of Elders

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:50:34 +0000

The Trans-Atlantic slave trade which led to the forceful enslavement of millions to the Americas and Europe, has elicited the call for reparation even to the United Nations by Africans.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Nigeria: Why Labour is Campaigning for Industrial Revolution – Aremu

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:02:50 +0000

Noting that only good governance can guarantee the imperative of industrial development for any nation as it was the case in the 70s when the manufacturing sector made a significant contribution of about 15 percent to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the organised labour last week, started a road show campaign through out the federation to urge Federal Government to re-industrialise …

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[History: 1750-1900]: Angola: Angolan Commercial Attaché to Spain Expects Industrial Revolution in Angola

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:09:29 +0000

Luanda — Angola’s commercial attaché to Spain, Miguel Catraio, considered that the political stability associated to development programmes approved by the central government will enable an industrial revolution in the country in the coming years.

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[History: 1750-1900]: HMS Victory bucket is up for sale

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:46:46 +0000

A leather fire bucket believed to have been used on HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar goes under the hammer.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Zombie Austen author moves on to Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:33:54 +0000

Author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies lands major deal for presidential biography with added bloodsucking The author currently enjoying a surprise hit with the new literary genre of monster remix, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies writer Seth Grahame-Smith, has landed a rumoured $575,000 (£390,000) deal with a major US publisher that will entail writing the life of Abraham Lincoln, vampire …

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[History: 1750-1900]: Jerry and Joe Long: Cheney Wants Documents Released, Jack The Ripper Wants Brothels Closed, Peter Luger Wants Vegan …

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:50:52 +0000

It’s come to this. Dick Cheney wants more disclosure. Yes, the Empire’s media continue to treat the reality of torture with all the introspection of…

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[History: 1750-1900]: Labour’s industrial revolution

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:23:49 +0000

New Labour will today abandon 12 years of support for market forces by unveiling an interventionist strategy under which the Government will subsidise the growth industries of the future.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Manitoba seeing some of the highest water levels since American Civil War began

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:40:00 +0000

WINNIPEG – Water levels in sopping-wet Manitoba are now the second highest in the last century and a half, behind only the devastating flood of 1997, officials confirmed Friday.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Jack the Ripper ‘lived in Australia’

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:44:18 +0000

It is a mystery that has baffled the police and the public for more than a century but an Australian academic may have come up with one of the most bizarre Jack the Ripper theory yet.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Black Friday: Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:05:37 +0000

“Now, by God, I’ll put him through,” actor John Wilkes Booth told a companion on the night of April 11, 1865. “That is the last speech he will ever make.”

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[History: 1750-1900]: Al Pacino to play Napoleon

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:44:44 +0000

Academy award winning actor Al Pacino, who had a longtime wish to don the character of Napoleon, is now getting a chance to play the French emperor in an on-screen adaptation of children’s book.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Al Pacino measures up to Napoleon

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:03:13 +0000

Will star in ‘Betsy and the Emperor’ adaptation The Godfather will step into the shoes of one of history’s most famous misunderstood bad guys.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Al Pacino finally playing Napoleon

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:07:12 +0000

BY James White Apr 8th 2009 3:03AMFILED UNDER: Movie news Al Pacino has wanted to play French emperor Napoleon for years now, and it looks like he’s finally getting his chance. After waiting for seven years, Pacino signed on to the part in an …

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[History: 1750-1900]: Industrial Revolution sets the stage for Civil War

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:41:22 +0000

Past columns have discussed the Industrial Revolution’s enormous effect on our Civil War. This period’s inventions precipitated enormous social changes.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Reaching People on Both Sides of the Arab-Israeli Divide

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:48:40 +0000

TAKING THE MORAL HIGH GROUND — The lack of self-criticism is the Arabs’ most serious social problem, while each aimless Qassam rocket fired from Gaza into Israel makes the world unfairly forget how the Israeli occupation factors into Palestinian resistance.

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[History: 1750-1900]: Bob Dylan on Barack Obama, Ulysses Grant and American Civil War ghosts

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:59:55 +0000

Bill Flanagan: In that song Chicago After Dark were you thinking about the new President’

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