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Default Bonaparte and palindromes.

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Useful.
Kayak.
Uproot.
Crack.
There is a palindrome-- a word spelled forward and backwards the same way such as kayak-- that references Napoleon Bonaparte. ◦Able was I ere I saw Elba. It is about when he was uprooted from France after various defeats in Russia and elsewhere but he had not yet met his Waterloo. It probably still makes many an Englishman crack a smile at the expense of the people across the Channel. Probably not much of a smile given how useful stoicism is to many a man or woman in the United Kingdom-- stiff upper lip and all that. http://www.rinkworks.com/words/palindromes.shtml