Ok, this is just for trivia.  What French monument did Napoleon Bonaparte have built?  Why was it built?
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Arc de Triomphe on the Place de l'Étoile. \n\nNapoleon Bonaparte built this monument for the glorification of his French Army. His victorious troops would march on through the arch cheered by the population of Paris. This never happened thanks to General Wellington who defeated Napoléon at Waterloo in 1815.  It was finished in 1836 and is decorated with bas-reliefs depicting scenes from the revolutionary era. In 1921, the tomb of an unknown soldier was added in remembrance of 1.5 million soldier victims of WWI.\n\nDo you need more than than?  :)
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It was built by many emperors during many dynasties.\nHere's a really good website on the Great Wall of China:\n\nhttp://www.great-wall.org/facts.htm\n\nIt's really helpful.Go take a look :)
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George Washington....thanks for the points! :)
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Here's a link for you on the history of Napoleon.\n\nhttp://www.web-books.com/Classics/Nonfiction/History/Napoleon_Abbott/Napoleon_AbbottP1.htm\n\nHere is what Napolean realized at the end of his life...\n\n“I know men – I tell you – Jesus is not a man. He commands us to believe and gives no other reason than His awesome Word: ‘I am God.’ Philosophers try to solve the mysteries of the universe by empty dissertations – fools... Christ never hesitates; He speaks with authority. His religion is a mystery, but it subsists by its own power. He seeks and absolutely requires the love of men – the most difficult thing in the world to obtain. Alexander, Caesar, Hannibal conquered the world, but had no friends. I myself am perhaps the only person of my day who loves Alexander, Caesar, Hannibal, Charlemagne who, like myself, founded empires. But upon what? Force. Jesus founded His empire on love. And at this hour millions would die for Him. I myself have inspired multitudes with such affection that they would die for me, but my presence was necessary. Now that I’m in St Helena, where are my friends? I am forgotten, soon to return to the earth and become food for worms. What an abyss between my misery and the eternal Kingdom of Christ who is proclaimed, loved, adored, and which is extending over all the earth. Is this death that He died? I tell you, the death of Christ is the death of a god. I tell you, Jesus Christ is God. This Man respects your dignity. He will never force you to become His disciple. But He loves you and He asks you to invite Him to be the Lord of your life. He leaves you to decide...” \nNapoleon Bonaparte  (1769–1821)
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L'OM a grand secret: Son histoire. Son palmarès et les joueurs qui y ont joué ont fait de ce club ce qu'il est aujourd'hui: un monument. C'est le club qui a le plus representé la France sur le plan Européen et international. MARSEILLE, C'EST L'HISTOIRE!!
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Shāh Jahān, who commissioned the monument, was a prolific [lover] with effectively limitless resources. He had previously created the gardens and palaces of Shalimar in honor of his wife, Mumtaz. After her death in childbirth (she had already borne him fourteen children) Shah Jahan was reportedly inconsolable; the court chronicler 'Abd al-Hamid Lahawri tells us that before her death the emperor had but twenty white hairs in his beard, but thereafter many more.[1] The contemporary court chroniclers paid an unusual amount of attention to Mumtaz Mahal's death and Shah Jahan's grief at her demise, and it may well be that the traditional "love-story" associated with the construction of the Taj has some basis in fact.[2] The Taj Mahal was begun not long after Mumtaz's death in 1631. The principal mausoleum was completed seventeen years later, and the surrounding buildings and garden five years after that. Visiting Agra in 1663, the French traveller François Bernier gave the following description of the Taj Mahal and Shah Jahan's motive for building it:\n\n    I shall finish this letter with a description of the two wonderful mausoleums which constitute the chief superiority of Agra over Delhi. One was erected by Jehan-guyre [sic] in honour of his father Ekbar; and Chah-Jehan raised the other to the memory of his wife Tage Mehale, that extraordinary and celebrated beauty, of whom her husband was so enamoured it is said that he was constant to her during life, and at her death was so affected as nearly to follow her to the grave".[3]
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The original Napoleonic Code, or Code Napoléon (originally called the Code civil des français, or civil code of the French), was the French civil code, established at the behest of Napoléon I. It entered into force on March 21, 1804. Even though the Napoleonic code was not the first legal code to be established in a European country with a civil legal system — it was preceded by the Codex Maximilianeus bavaricus civilis (Bavaria, 1756), the Allgemeines Landrecht (Prussia, 1792) and the West Galician Code, (Galicia, then part of Austria, 1797) — it is considered the first successful codification and strongly influenced the law of many other countries.\n\nThe Napoleonic Code, formally said, dealt only with civil law issues, such as filiation and property; other codes were later published dealing with criminal law, criminal procedure and commercial law. It also did not deal with how laws and regulations were to be passed — which is reserved for a constitution.\n\nThe Code, with its stress on clearly written and accessible law, was a major step in establishing the rule of law.
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Why would you want to deface a national monument and put something like that up. Just give him his own library and tell him that is all he gets.
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its A Palace build by Muslims in Granada its highly decorated its famous because of 12 lions statues in circle very hour one of the make sound like a real one (like a watch) they work on water\nonce while maintenance one of the lions was broken accidentally and no one could restore it
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Since France gave it to us, you can use cake and cut out the image.\n\n(France is only good for baking.)
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I don't think it's just now.  Napoleon was a dramatic figure in world history--a brilliant tactician (for the most part!), notorious for his behavior.  He's a great study in how to do some things, and how not to do others.
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I'm not going to do your homework for you, but I'll point you to some sources on the web:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon's_invasion_of_Russia\nhttp://www.zum.de/whkmla/military/napwars/napinv.html
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It is a day of celebration of when the Mexican army defeated the French. There was just a program on the Discovery channel about 2 hours ago about it! Check the listing I'm sure it will be on again.
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Did Napoleon's troops shoot the nose off the Sphinx?\n\nBy Tom Holmberg\n\nAlthough popular legend blames Napoleon and his troops during the French campaign in Egypt (1798-1801) for having shot the nose off the Great Sphinx, in fact this story just isn't true. I have yet to locate an original source for this myth. The idea that Napoleon was to blame for the Sphinx's missing nose dates at least to the beginning of the twentieth century.\n\nOne traveler to Egypt around the time of World War One wrote the following: "To take our photos sitting in front of the Sphinx on a camel was the aim of another. ...And so, repulsing the hordes of robbers on all sides, we came to the wonderful, inscrutable, worth-millions-of-pounds-to-authors Sphinx. The great riddle of the mysterious East. How many reams of rubbish have been written about this misshapen block of stone. Napoleon, a practical man, fired a few cannon balls at its face. High explosive shells were not invented in those days." [From: Sommers, Cecil. Temporary Crusaders. (London: John Lane, 1919) Chapter VI. "19th April."] Another book from about the same time (In the Footsteps of Napoleon (1915) by James Morgan, p 85) states "There is a tradition among the Arabs of the Pyramids that all the scars of time and the wounds of a hundred wars, which the Sphinx carries, were inflicted by Napoleon's soldiers, who used its mystifying and majestic countenance as a target. That, however, is only a legend for the tourist. Long before the discovery of gunpowder, the Arabs had laid iconoclastic hands on the beard of this god of the desert..." Though the Arab guides may have spread this tale, this myth has been perpetuated over the years by countless teachers the world over who have passed this bit of "history" on to their students.\n\nA poll conducted on the Internet found that fully 21% of respondents believed Napoleon was responsible for the Sphinx's missing nose. One of the most recent examples of the persistence of this falsehood was Louis Farrakhan's "Million Man March" speech where he said: "White supremacy caused Napoleon to blow the nose off the Sphinx because it reminded you [sic] too much of the Black man's majesty." And the perpetuation of this myth in "Afrocentric" circles was even the subject of a segment of the U.S. television investigative journalism program "60 Minutes."\n\nThis error has persisted in spite of the fact that the truth can be readily found in such common reference sources as the Encyclopedia Americana> (Danbury, CT: Grolier, 1995). vol.25, p.492-3 under "Sphinx", which states: "Over the centuries the Great Sphinx has suffered severely from weathering...Man has been responsible for additional mutilation. In 1380 A.D. the Sphinx fell victim to the iconoclastic ardor of a fanatical Muslim ruler, who caused deplorable injuries to the head. Then the figure was used as a target for the guns of the Mamluks." In the book The Egyptian Pyramids: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990), p.301, the author, J.P. Lepre, adds the fact that, in addition to the 14th century damage, "The face was further disfigured by the eighteenth century A.D. ruler of Egypt, the Marmalukes [Mamluks]."\n\nEuropean visitors to Egypt prior to Napoleon's expedition had already discovered the vandalism to the Sphinx. In 1546, for example, when Dr. Pierre Belon explored Egypt, he visited "the great colossus." "The Sphinx," writes Leslie Greener in The Discovery Of Egypt (London : Cassell, 1966), p.38, by this time "no longer [had] the stamp of grace and beauty so admired by Abdel Latif in 1200." Greener goes on to say: "this exonerates the artillerymen of Napoleon Bonaparte, who have the popular reputation of having used the nose of the Sphinx as a target." The charge against Napoleon is p
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It was a gift from France t ocommorate the 100th anniversary of the United States, Frederic Bartholdi was the designer and the Statue was dedicated in 1886.  It was gifted as the result of our help in any war but as a thanks to the beacon we were seen as, espceially with the French Revolution following in the footsteps of the American Revolution (which they helped us win).
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You will find your answers here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Revolution\n\nGood Luck!!!
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Stanley. I have limited information about him 'though he was my great grandfather. When I go home this weekend I will dig out his diary which has his wrestling record in it. His brother is next to him on the Victoria monument (not sure whether it was James or Stanley). There is supposed to be another statue in London. A great uncle of mine saw a film of a wrestling match in Australia with George Hallwood refereeing, maybe in the 1920's although he always lived in Liverpool. I have a number of photo's, although none with him wrestling there is one as a sculptor's model.