Nelson had his right limb blown off during the Battle of Santa Cruz in Tenerife in 1797. Five months after the remains of his ...
Paris’s map looks odd at first — the neighborhoods spiral outward like a snail shell. But that swirl hides centuries of history: city walls, expansion, Emperor Napoleon III’s redesign, and political ...
Born on the fringes of Europe, he rose through chaos and revolution to crown himself Emperor of the French. His name became a ...