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What Did Napoleon Bonaparte Die Of?

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Bonaparte.jpgHe may have been dead for some time but by no means is he forgotten. This man who once ruled France has kept the people actively debating. What about? Why they wonder what really caused his death. Did he die of natural causes in exile or was he indeed poisoned with arsenic?

Dr. Robert Genta and a team of US, Canadian and Swiss researchers have tried to determine the cause of death for themselves. Dr. Genta, senior author of the study is a professor of pathology and internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is also an expert on stomach cancer.

The team had nothing to use but the previous reports filed. So they worked with the autopsy report and applied modern pathological and clinical methods as best they could on these reports. Their conclusion is that Bonaparte had a tumor measuring the length of his stomach. He appeared to have third stage stomach cancer and probably had mere months to live. There was no hemorrhage of the heart that would have been present if Napoleon had indeed been poisoned.

Dr. Genta hopes that Napoleon may spark renewed study on gastric cancer just as Betty Ford inspired the interest in breast cancer. How many more famous personages in our history died of stomach cancer? The scientists will have to tell us.

Al Gore Wins The Quill Literary Prize

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Al Gore recently won the prestigious Quill Literary Award for his acclaimed book on the startling state of the environment, “An Inconvenient Truth”.

The ex-vice president and former electoral Bush opponent has been applauded lately for his staunch efforts on promoting environmental awareness, mostly through his book, which has been also made into a film. The book, which talks about climate change, was awarded the Quill prize in the history, current events and politics category.

The Quills, which just started last year, hope to be likened to the famous Pulitzer and National Book Awards, and was created to promote literacy and gain exposure for authors. The prize was voted by the public, who cast their votes online.

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7-11 Gets Very Patriotic

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After my post a few days back on Venezuelan President Chavez‘ somewhat amusing oration at the United Nations, it was even more amusing for me to see how his words, dismissed as mere “thug talk” by the Bush folk, has indeed hit some sour feelings with America’s patriots.

I’m talking about convenience store giant, 7-11 (where you can pick up some necessities like blue slurpies and overpriced chips, anytime anywhere in the world), who, has dumped Venezuelan-owned Citgo as their petroleum supplier.

In spite of the converience store chain’s 20-year-old relationship with the supplier, they’re sudden decision to change was partly because of “political reasons”. They made no excuses for this and even seemed proud to have acted in this patriotic (and emotional?) manner.

Of course, 7-11’s officials later took back what they said and in a very politically correct commercial fashion said that it was because they simply wanted a cheaper supplier.

It Still Smells Of Sulfur In The UN

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“The devil came here yesterday… and it still smells like sulfur”

It sounds almost too theatrical to be true, but those words were really said in the United Nations by Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela.
The now-famous speech and impassioned rhetoric on the “imperialistic” Bush rule gained the Venezuelan President an ovation as well as giggles from the international delagation.

It was reminiscent of his mentor, Fidel Castro‘s speech to the General Assembly in 1960. Aside from his firey declarations of the Bush administration’s militarism, he accused them of abetting “international terrorism” referring to so-called evanlgelical Reverend Pat Robertson’s call for his assasination.

“The only place where a person can ask for another head of state to be assassinated is the United States, which is what happened recently with the Reverend Pat Robertson, a very close friend of the White House. He publicly asked for my assassination and he’s still walking the streets.” said Chavez.

Later, he made more speeches in Harlem, which equally stirred up crowds to rousing applause.

“Every day I ask God, and the sooner the better, for the American people to elect a president who you can talk with, who you can work with, who you can talk with face-to-face as a brother and see each other as equals….Not this gentleman who walks like John Wayne,” Chavez said, puffing out his chest and swinging his elbows back and forth.

Al Queda’s “Happy Anniversary” Greeting On 911

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Its 911 once more, and Al Queda’s number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri sent a lengthy video as an eerily hate-laced “Happy Anniversary” for the terrible event 5 years ego.

Ayman al-Zawahiri is Egyptian and said to be the personal doctor of Bin laden himself.

In the video which lasted more than an hour, al-Zawahiri basically called for Muslims to work a little harder in their resistance to the United States.

“Your leaders are hiding you from the true extent of the disaster….and the days are pregnant and giving birth to new events with Allah’s permission and guidance”

The video, which was released on Al-Sahab’s website (a terrorist production company), is said to be more sophisticated than previous one, complete with English subtitles as well as a “highlights” section in the beginning.

Basically, Al-Sahab attacks those so-called “collaborators” who have abandoned Islam, blames the West for arming Israel, and calling Muslims to join the fight with its Muslim brothers in Lebanon and Gaza.

As if that wasn’t enough of a call to hate, he also told Muslims to fight the US allies in Somalia and for Iraqui Kurds to do the same to Americans.

Sigh.

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