Category: Destinatios
Napoleon’s sarcophagus But not all of Napoleon rests inside the sarcophagus. There has been a long tradition in certain European countries of extracting various body parts and burying them …
Ask the proverbial man-on-the-street to name famous Frenchmen, and Napoleon Bonaparte will likely be at the top of the list. Indeed, Napoleon is in that rarefied group of individuals …
The leaders in these projects were usually urban commercial interests. Philadelphia was the most active center of canal promotion. Buffalo Map Thomas Gilpin, a Quaker merchant and member of …
Whether they arrived in cities in wagons or on boats, once there, goods were frequently maneuvered through narrow, winding streets on carts. Rwanda Map Carts and their operators were …
Les Invalides is a rambling complex of buildings relating to France’s military history. More formally known as l’Hotel national des Invalides (The National Residence of the Invalids), it was …
At the front of the cemetery is a cenotaph dedicated to the memory of Barry the St. Bernard. There is a certain amount of confusion about the monument, which …
Rin Tin Tin (sometimes spelled Rin-Tin-Tin) was a shell-shocked puppy found in a bombed-out kennel in Loraine, in what is now northeast France, by American serviceman Lee Duncan. Duncan …
A suitable burial site for the corpses was located in a garden about a quarter mile away at what is now 35 rue de Picpus. From Country June 14 …