Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, who ruled as president of France from 1848 to 1852, then as emperor until 1870, when his regime collapsed after a crushing military defeat at the hands of Prussia. In the second half of the 20th century, Napoleon’s reputation underwent a modest rehabilitation, as he won praise of France’s…
We were born before Television, before penicillin, pollo shirts, frozen foods, Xerox, plastic, contact lenses, videos, camcorders, atoms, laser beams, ballpoint pens before dishwashers, tumble dryers, electric blankets, air conditioners, drip dry clothes, and before man walked on the Moon. We got married first and then lived together ( how quaint can you be?). We…
Nikola, an American electric-car start up company and pioneer in zero-emission trucks, offering pure electric and also hydrogen electric power across multiple who has delivered its first two vehicles to a customer operating at the ports of Loa Angeles and Long Beach, has dropped its US $2 billion suit against Tesla. The lawsuit filed in…
International Test Match Day 3 of 5 South Africa vs India India 1st Innings 202 ao off 63.1 ov, Rahul 50 off 133, 9 fours, Agarwal 26 off 37, 5 fours, R Ashwin 46 off 50, 6 fours, Rabada 3-64, Olivier 3-64, Jansen 4-31. South Africa 1st Innings 229 ao off 79.4ov, Elgar 28 off…
A 49-year-old man was arrested and would appear in court on Tuesday, facing charges of arson, housebreaking and theft after a large fire severely damaged the Houses of Parliament in the South African city of Cape Town. “ A terrible and devastating event” President Cyril Ramaphosa said. Footage from the scene showed a plume of…
Alicia Tulsee, founder and CEO of MoxieScrubs, a New Yorker and Harvard alum based in Boston, wanted to the something meaningful for the nursing profession when the pandemic made peoples life miserable. She developed the idea for Moxie Scrubs and founded the brand out of Harvard University’s innovation Lan with the passion to create a…
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Prof Chris Whitty and Prof Jonathan Van-Tam have been knighted in the New Year Honours List. Dr Jenny Harries, CEO of the UK Health Security Agency and Dr June Raine Head of the vaccines regulator MHRA, are both made dames. Tony Blair is knighted being appointed to the Order of the Garter. In sport…
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Prize Laureate who helped bequeath “a liberated South Africa and end apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 90. According to Nelson Mandela, he was one of the driving forces behind the movement to end the policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the white minority government against the…