France’s first Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is like Adolf Hitler, British director Ridley Scott said ahead of the release of his biopic movie on the French military leader in the fall.
“I compare him with Alexander the Great. Adolf Hitler. Stalin,” Scott said in the upcoming September edition of the British monthly magazine Empire.
Napoleon — who reinstated slavery and whose military campaigns ranged from Spain to Russia and were responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths on the battlefield —
Der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin hat am Donnerstag sein neuestes Atom-U-Boot mit dem Namen „Kaiser Alexander III.
Das U-Boot wurde in der Stadt Severodvinsk am Weißen Meer zu Wasser gelassen, nachdem es von der russischen Schiffbaufirma Sevmash entwickelt worden war – einer Tochtergesellschaft der United Shipbuilding Corporation, die den Bau und die Wartung der russischen Marine beaufsichtigt.
Putin setzte sich dafür ein, dass die Flotte mit keiner anderen Marineflotte der Welt vergleichbar sei.
Während die „Emperor Alexander III“, die 16
American President Joe Biden has left the White House and will arrive in London this evening alongside his wife Jill ahead of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday.
The couple boarded the Air Force One from Washington on Saturday afternoon, just hours after Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako were also seen taking a first class flight into London.
The emperor and empress will swap their luxury digs for a shuttle bus alongside other world dignitaries to get to the
Cosmic rays may be used to scan the sealed tomb of China’s First Emperor — long rumoured to contain deadly traps and an ancient map with liquid mercury rivers.
Buried under a 249-feet-high pyramidal mound, the tomb lies within a necropolis in Xi’an’s Lintong District, and is famously guarded by the Terracotta Army.
Found in their thousands to the tomb’s east, as if to protect Qin Shi Huang in death from the eastern states he conquered in life, each statue
