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SINATRA STORIES FROM THE LATE FRANK, JR.; TAX TALK WITH JERSEY CITY MAYOR FULOP & MORE ON NJTV (NJTV - Public Media NJ Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Mar 2016
(Source ... Joseph Bonaparte - Napoleon's older brother - came to America in the 1800s, living in Philadelphia and ... Find out more in Bonaparte's Retreat, a State of the Arts documentary....

The Other Bonaparte

Edit The Atlantic 08 Jan 2016
Napoleon’s brother Joseph has a body of water named after him off the coast of the Northern Territory and western Australia ... / Australia, Bay-Joseph Bonaparte....

Isabella II of Spain

Edit About.com 01 Jan 2016
Dates. October 10, 1830 - April 9, 1904; Queen of Spain 1833 - 1868Background. Isabella, who lived during troubled times for the Spanish monarchy, was the daughter of Ferdinand VII of Spain (1784 - 1833), a Bourbon ruler, by his fourth wife, Maria of the Two Sicilies (1806 - 1878) ... He abdicated about two months later, and Napoleon installed Joseph Bonaparte, his brother, as the Spanish king ... His first wife died after two miscarriages ... A ....

‘From Waterloo to New Jersey,’ a Glimpse of Joseph Bonaparte’s Life in Exile

Edit New York Times 08 Oct 2015
This exhibition is the first major American display of artifacts that belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte’s older brother, the former king of Spain and Naples ... ....

The cardinal, the prostitute and the painter: the strange story of Titian's most erotic masterpiece

Edit The Guardian 02 Jul 2015
It was considered a fake for a century, but now one of the UK’s greatest art treasures is back on show. So how did the Duke of Wellington get his hands on it? ... This is a painting about love and money – and it is priceless ... Is this the money Farnese paid his professional lover? ... When Joseph Bonaparte, delegated by his brother to rule Spain, finally had to flee, he took a load of paintings from the Spanish royal collection ... ....

US was ready to grant Napoleon asylum in America after defeat

Edit Deccan Chronicle 31 May 2015
The US was willing to offer Napoleon Bonaparte refuge in America after his defeat in the historic Battle of Waterloo and floated the ... Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's elder brother, did make it to America, living in Philadelphia and New York from the proceeds of selling jewels he had plundered from Spain, where Napoleon had installed him as king in 1808....

This Day in History — May 5

Edit Jamaica Observer 05 May 2015
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT. 1862. Mexican army defeats invading French forces in the Battle of Puebla. May 5 is now Mexico's National Day, Cinco de Mayo. OTHER EVENTS. 1494 ... 1570. Turkey declares war on Venice for refusing to surrender Cyprus ... Napoleon Bonaparte forces Spain's King Charles IV to abdicate in favour of him in Madrid. He appoints his brother Joseph Bonaparte to rule ... France's Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the island of St Helena ... ....

Velázquez? Think of him as creator of the Facebook pages of his day

Edit The Irish Times 25 Apr 2015
It was rotten being a royal in 17th-century Spain. The populace were decimated by plague and endless war. The Dutch and French coveted one’s territory ... Napoleon’s older brother Joseph Bonaparte looted the royal collection when he fled in 1813, after ruling Spain for five years ... Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan and Joseph’s Bloody Coat Brought to Jacob, story paintings he brought back from Rome, bear a strong resemblance to Poussin....

The beauty of Matera’s “Sassi”

Edit The Examiner 17 Oct 2014
On October 17, 2014, Matera was declared the Italian host of the 2019 European Capital of Culture ... This started to change several years ago. In the coming years leading up to and including 2019, Matera will become increasingly popular throughout Europe and with Italians in the Western Hemisphere ... Later, Matera became the capital of Basilicata, which it retained until 1806 when Joseph Bonaparte reassigned the capital to Potenza ... 1866 ... ....

Biography chronicles the life of Cuba’s first female published author

Edit The Miami Herald 03 Sep 2014
On a trip to Miami, while leafing through a beautifully illustrated book on Havana, Alina Garcia-Lapuerta encountered La Condesa de Merlin for the first time ... The result of that research is a new book, La Belle Créole ... Garcia-LaPuerta will speak about her work at 7 p.m ... In Madrid, she lived through the king’s abdication, the rule of Joseph Bonaparte (Napoleon’s older brother) and a drawn-out, bloody civil war ... What ... ....
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