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Sunday Word Jumble answers from the Villages Daily Sun:

Frosty.
Drone.
Arouse.
Panda.

Monday's Word Jumble puzzle-- http://www.chron.com/entertainment/c.../comic/Jumble/

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Round.
Brave.
Socket.
Galaxy.

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Word Jumble answers for this week so far except for Thursday:

18th-- Panda, Frosty, Drone, Arouse
19th-- Round, Brave, Socket, Galaxy
20th-- Modem, Prawn, Gallon, Rookie
21st-- Spurn, Porch, Detach, Rosier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Holland
http://www.authorama.com/history-of-holland-30.html

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Word Jumble answers for this week so far except for Thursday:

18th-- Panda, Frosty, Drone, Arouse
19th-- Round, Brave, Socket, Galaxy
20th-- Modem, Prawn, Gallon, Rookie
21st-- Spurn, Porch, Detach, Rosier

Kingdom of Holland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
History of Holland - Chapter XXVIII: The Kingdom of Holland and the French Annexation, 1806-1814 (by George Edmundson)

22nd-- Rugby, Video, Submit, Rotate

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Thinking that his third brother would be like a lazy panda only aroused by hand-outs from its zookeepers , Napoleon set up his brother Louis Bonaparte as a somewhat caged puppet king of Holland. Unfortunately for Napoleon, Louis was anything but his drone and put a frosty attitude towards the Little Corporal's need to protect his flank from attack by the English as well as to supply his army with Dutch recruits.

These actions created a galaxy of supporters for Louis as many saw how brave he was to stand up to his brother. Word of actions like these also got around and encouraged others to try this socket for more power in their own regions.

Louis was unfortunately kind of a rookie in the art of political intrigue and there was a time when a blockade of Holland by the French probably only stopped a gallon of prawns at one port from coming in while allowing a boatload of goods spurned elsewhere to come in. This was modem for the removal of Louis from Kingship. Napoleon Bonaparte forced his brother to abdicate especially as the blockade was more of a porch swing door than a dyke. Fortunately for the Dutch, this taste of a king who had their own interests at heart, left a path for the Dutch to set up their own Kings. It certainly gave a rosier picture for friends of European monarchies and upset those factions which had spurned monarchies.

Even if the real power is now somewhat detached from the King and Queen in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe as well, you can still see the love of monarchy in the celebrations like the one shown in this video of Dutch showing the orange for their royals. This would appear on streets, in rugby and football matches, and I even submit probably around those who were more interested in having their rooms rotate due to getting high in Amsterdam. They could still root for the Orange even though high as kites. http://za.news.yahoo.com/video/amste...163000701.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarc...he_Netherlands

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

August 23, 2013 Word Jumble answers.

Gripe.
Mourn.
Weaken.
Bottom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bonaparte

Napoleon I made him the King of Holland on 5 June 1806. Napoleon had intended for the younger brother to be little more than a French governor of Holland. However, Louis had his own mind, and tried to be a responsible and independent ruler. In an effort to endear himself to his adopted country, he tried to learn the Dutch language; he called himself Lodewijk I (adopting the Dutch form of his name) and declared himself Dutch rather than French. Allegedly, his Dutch was initially so poor that he told the people he was the "Konijn van 'Olland" ("Rabbit of 'Olland"), rather than "Koning van Holland" ("King of Holland"). However, his sincere effort to learn Dutch earned him some respect from his subjects.

Having declared himself Dutch, Louis tried to make his court Dutch as well. He forced his court and ministers (mostly provided by Napoleon) to speak only Dutch, and also to renounce their French citizenships. This latter was too much for his wife Hortense who, in France at the time of his demands, refused his request.

Louis could never settle on the location for his capital city while he was in Holland. He changed capitals over a dozen times, trying Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, and other places. On one occasion, after visiting the home of a wealthy Dutch merchant, he liked the place so much that he had the owner evicted so he could take up residence there. Then, Louis moved again after seven weeks. His constant moving kept the court in upheaval since they had to follow him everywhere. The European diplomatic corps went so far as to petition Bonaparte to remain in one place so they could keep up with him. This restlessness was later attributed to his alleged "lunacy".

The Dutch mourned their French King Louis when he was forced to abdicate by his brother Napoleon. Before this happened there was other drama in the extended family of Napoleon Bonaparte as Louis wanted to become Dutch. This caused Louis' wife to gripe about having to try to learn Dutch which probably caused a bottom to their marriage with her moving back to France and him trying to find a suitable place for his court. Family strife often caused the Napoleon family bonds to weaken.

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Dismay.
Tithe.
Crank.
Closer.

http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/tmj.../24/index.html

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Napoleon III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_...teenth_century
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10699a.htm

Louis King of Holland's son may have had the last laugh with the rise to power in France of his son Napoleon III.

The Catholic Church probably did not suffer much with their tithes during the reign of Napoleon III but were dismayed by other acts of this "socialist Emperor".

Napoleon's large-scale program of public works, and his extravagantly expensive foreign policy, had created rapidly mounting government debts; the annual deficit was about fr.100 million, and the cumulative debt had reached nearly fr.1 billion. The Emperor had full control of the budget, but was managing it poorly. He needed to restore the confidence of the business world, and to involve the legislature and sharing responsibility. Therefore, he renounced his right to borrow money when the legislature was not in session, and agreed the budget should be voted on item by item. Nevertheless, he retained the right to change the budget estimates section by section, thereby defeating parliamentary control and angering the parliamentarians. The opposition formed an increasingly powerful coalition, ranging from Catholics outraged by the Papal policies to Legitimists, Orleanists, protectionists and even some republicans. Napoleon's position was further undermined during the 1860s by his failures in foreign policy.

There seemed to have been a lot of cranky Frenchmen due to Napoleon III's various policies. His end became closer when his policies clashed with those of Prussia.

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Siege.
Stodgy.
Oblong.
Hence.

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Short history of one of the less than honorable battles in the Napoleonic Wars is done by a rather stodgy Englishman. This is about the Siege of Badajoz. The oblong killing fields in the Badajoz fortifications took 2000 British soldiers' lives. You would have hoped that the British commandments hence forth would not force their men into these kind of predicaments. Unfortunately, that did not seem to be the case.
Wellingtons siege of Badajoz, spain - YouTube

If you are in the mood for something less academic take a look at one of the Sharpe's Rifles episodes which mostly also involve the Napoleonic Wars.
http://youtu.be/4ECvF86vl9I

Sharpe's Company
http://youtu.be/MYM2zOnnrV4

Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's series is also fun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_(novel_series) Sharpe's Company deals with the Siege of Badajoz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Company_(novel)

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Monday, August 26, 2013 Word Jumble answers:

Spring.
Evoke.
Shift.
Bottom.

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Monday, August 26, 2013 Word Jumble answers:

Spring.
Evoke.
Shift.
Bottom.

What images I evoke when I mention Napoleon Bonaparte? This may be one of them. Napoleon crossing the Great St. Bernard Pass over the Alps into Italy in 1800. He did wait for late spring to make an attempt to get over the pass and managed to get 60,000 Frenchmen to the southern bottom of the pass. This feat did shift his image in the eyes of many of the locals who lived near this pass. Napoleon

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Tuesday, August 27, 2013, Word Jumble answers:

Grill.
Empty.
Lotion.
Square.

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Wednesday's Word jumble answers:

Skulk.
Avian.
Encore.
Sprain.

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....An action would probably empty the Sumter Landing Square of lotioned revelers if a group of Bonaparte gulls decided to bombard the grills of various Villagers in some kind of French renaissance of the dreams of the Emperor. Avian Vocalizations Center : AVoCet recording of Bonaparte's Gull Larus philadelphia There would be so many cell phone calls from family members at such a happening that the other Squares might empty out as well. Some might even see a shadow of a skulking Alfred Hitchcock in a corner reliving his avian horror story from The Birds. Let's just hope such a stampede of concerned Villagers did not sprain any ankles or twist any knees. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/bonapartes_gull/id

This gull is named after zoologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte, a nephew of Napoleon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaparte's_Gull