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Originally Posted by Happinow

After coming home from church, I noticed the smell of septic. Not a good way to start the day so I called the plumber. He told me that when they put the pipe in for the drain they did a botch job and the pipe leaked. After fixing the drain, it was time for my cooking class with the youth group. We cooked kettle corn and sat by the fire. A good way to end the day.

A funny story about the consequences of Napoleon Bonaparte's various military actions which touches on septic tanks, youth, kettles from which diners shared food often grabbed just with the fingers, botched opportunities and other matters. -- 1808 - Words Without Borders

Crossing the Atlantic had been an adventure replete with hardship and suffering. The old, poorly-equipped Portuguese ships and frigates were brimming with people. Overcrowding and the lack of hygiene and sanitation favored the proliferation of pests. On the ship Alfonso de Albuquerque, on which Princess Carlota Joaquina, wife of the crown prince, had traveled, a lice infestation had obliged the noblewomen to shave their heads and throw their wigs into the sea. Their bald heads were anointed with pig fat and dusted with antiseptic powder. This resulted in one of the most comic episodes in the history of the Brazilian court. To protect their heads when they disembarked in Rio de Janeiro, Carlota, her daughters, and other ladies-in-waiting wore turbans. When they saw the princesses dressed like that, the women of Rio de Janeiro assumed it was the latest fashion in Europe. In no time, almost all of them had cut their hair and were using turbans to imitate the Portuguese noblewomen.

Thus began the most noteworthy period of transformation


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Word Jumble answers for June 25, 2013.

Toxic.
Ankle.
Vulgar.
Thirst.

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/c.../comic/Jumble/

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Clio's Lessons: French Revolution - Battle of the Pyramids

This battle's name is a bit of a misnomer as it sounds like Napoleon's ankle could have been touching the closest pyramid to him instead the nearest pyramids were nine miles distant. Bonaparte's squares proved toxic to the enemy troops who would soon be drowning in the Nile trying to get away from the French soldiers who probably thirsted for whatever booty they could get off the slain soldiers either those killed in battle or those who had met the more vulgar fate for them of drowning while trying to escape.

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http://www.chron.com/entertainment/c.../comic/Jumble/

Idiot.
Gloat.
Botany.
Hermit.

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/c.../comic/Jumble/

Idiot.
Gloat.
Botany.
Hermit.

Empress Josephine at Château Malmaison - Woman of Influence | The Culture Concept Circle

Napoleon Bonaparte's wife Josephine could gloat about her interest in botany which made others into almost idiots when compared to her knowledge. Of course, some of these people probably had much more of a life of traveling when compared to hers. She led the life almost of a hermit in her marvelous garden of plants collected from around the world by other people.

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Bounce.
Hefty.
Campus.
Opera.

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Inept.
Might.
Length.
Tirade.

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the history of Tosca

Napoleon's lengthy stay in Egypt had a profound effect on the affairs in Italy as can be seen in the opera Tosca which sees French might wane under Austrian pressure. The Austrians take advantage of Napoleon's inept handling of a campaign for a while but the battlefield had always been Bonaparte's campus and he soon bounced back from defeat probably causing a tirade of curses from the Italians who had wanted to take back power. There would be a hefty price to pay the victorious Napoleon.

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Inept.
Might.
Length.
Tirade.

As inept as I am at selling things, I though I might try to sell a long legnth of copper pipe. I wondered how I might go about it until a friend suggested that I might triade in the classified section of my local newspaper.

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Audio.
Goalie.
Flawed.
Tacky.

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Napoleon has his name on all kinds of things like on a fair but sometimes tacky movie Napoleon Dynamite: a town in Ohio, USA; a hockey goalie; an ice cream sandwich http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-Fre...Sandwich-22386 and many other places and things. Even though the audio may be a little flawed, there was even a 9.5 hour silent movie made about Napoleon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on_(1927_film)

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Abbey.
Pupil.
Benumb.
Yearly.

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A CA abbey's Prior's friend made a replica of Napoleon's royal carriage. http://www.newclairvaux.org/1/archives/09-2010/1.html Many a pupil of these monks wondered why Bonaparte was a fascination for religious folk. They were benumbed though by the beauty of the royal transport. They might even have been persuaded to take yearly trips to see other carriages like those in Paris http://kathrynsanderson.com/tag/napoleon/ or perhaps even those at the Florida Carriage Museum. http://www.thegrandoaks.com/the-flor...exhibits-tours

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Axiom.
Blurt.
Feeble.
Outlet.

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David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps - Smarthistory

It is probably an axiom of artists that they not insult the hands that pay them, but to many David's portrait of Napoleon crossing the Alps is a feeble attempt to hide just how much David had to make Bonaparte look like an Emperor. Napoleon had a perfect outlet for his propaganda in David's work. At this stage of the Little Corporal's political career, very few people who wanted to stay alive would have blurted out what they really thought of David's 1800 painting.