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Emperor of France

December 2, 1804--Napoleon Bonaparte crowned emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII



By 1807, Napoleon's empire stretched from the River Elbe in the north, down through Italy in the south, and from the Pyrenees to the Dalmatian coast.

In other Napoleon news, a Rare Napoleon Kremlin letter up for auction

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Friday Recipe: Vegetable Soup

Healthy! Not exactly a word that's bandied around this time of year, but after eating entirely too much over Thanksgiving, I thought I'd post a light, healthy recipe!

Beaker's Vegetable Barley Soup

Ingredients: 2 quarts vegetable broth1 cup uncooked barley2 large carrots, chopped2 stalks celery, chopped1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes withjuice1 zucchini, chopped1 (15 ounce) can garbanzo beans,drained1 onion, chopped 3 bay leaves1 teaspoon garlic powder1 teaspoon white sugar1 teaspoon salt1/...

Breathless Press Presents...

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1/2 off Cyber Monday only! November 26, 2012

On Monday November 26 from 12:00 am EST  thru 11:59 pm my Hellfire Club Erotique books will be 50% off at All Romance eBooks.

The Escape:

Gabrielle Bertrand believed the men she loved had been beheaded during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Now promised in marriage to a general of the revolution, she still fears for her life and has resigned herself to the union.

And then fate intervenes and she sees Eric LeClaire and André St. Germaine again. Eric and André have spent the last two...

Cyber Monday

The Monday after Thanksgiving and Black Friday, Cyber Monday is all about the online deals. (And a new movement to improve working conditions) So this year, on Monday, November 26 all day from 12:00-11:59 my Hellfire Club Erotique series will be 50% off at All Romance eBooks !

[image error] The Escape: But with National Police after them, and years spent apart, will Gabrielle return to her lovers?
The Masque: But when old enemies exact vengeance and Madame Guillotine an ever present threat, will the three of...

Support Small Business Saturday

Saturday, November 24, 2012 is Small Business Saturday® – a day to celebrate and support small businesses and all they do for their communities.

Shop local! Shop small businesses! Why am I such a big advocate of this? Because the money small businesses earn is spent locally, thereby helping YOUR community, not the corporate headquarters in wherever for a company that pays a fraction of the taxes you do.

Read this on Why Buy Locally Owned? for some great reasons to keep your money local!
Top Ten...

Thanksgiving

In my household, Thanksgiving equals food, overindulgence, alcohol, and football (in the background) with Christmas music (in the foreground). So today I thought I'd share some Thanksgiving trivia from the About.com site...if you go there the questions are always in a different order.

Who was the first U.S. President to declare a national day of Thanksgiving?

a) George Washington
b) Abraham Lincoln*
c) Franklin D. Roosevelt
d) Rutherford B. Hayes

Friendly natives from which tribe were invited to...

Historic people with disabilities

I hadn't planned a post for today but read this on BBC and thought I'd share. You can read the entire article here, it's pretty interesting but here are a few highlights:

Henricus Dandolo or Enrico Dandolo--Doge of the Republic of Venice from 1192, Dandolo led the Fourth Crusade - an expedition intended to conquer Muslim Egypt - to Constantinople. His armies smashed the heart of the Christian Byzantine Empire. He achieved all this when he was in his 90s. And he had been blind for more than two...

Recipe: Thanksgiving Desserts

Yes, I know it's not Friday, but Friday is the day after Thanksgiving and for such a holiday (or any holiday really) you need a dessert. Now there are tons of things you can have for a Thanksgiving dessert, but alas, we're going traditional here.

Mrs. Sigg's Fresh Pumpkin PiePrep Time: 20 MinutesCook Time: 1 Hour Ready In: 14 Hours 40 MinutesServings: 8 Ingredients: 1 sugar pumpkin1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch single crustpie2 eggs1 cup packed light brown sugar 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour1...