Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis: Gold Mine of Blue Jeans
Less than 30 years after gold was discovered in California, the iconic symbol of ruggedness and individuality of blue jeans began.
Historical Sewing and Time Travels
Tag: Code Napoleon
Caroline Bonaparte unlocks secret door of Pompeii
Napoleon’s sister, Caroline, married one of his generals and together they ruled parts of Italy, including the land upon which Pompeii was secretly buried.
Napoleon revitalizes France after the Revolution
I highly recommend chapter 13, Rebuilding France, which analyzes how Napoleon flipped around a new government that failed under several previous leaders.
Unique Napoleonic biography for rhetoric homeschool studies
This British author with a degree from Oxford, wrote this book in 1970 because of stunning new research that unveiled a different Napoleon than oft described.
Learning Napoleonic Perspective
While Europe allied against Napoleon to prevent revolutions in their countires, the lower classes cheered Napoleon.
The Napoleonic Code brought new freedoms.
