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Buy Napoleon's tooth for 8000 pounds
Hindustan Times ^
| November 3, 2005
Posted on 11/03/2005 12:02:27 AM PST by nickcarraway
Napoleon Bonaparte's tooth, which was troublesome and pulled out in 1817, is up for auction, and it is probably set to fetch much more than what a tusk goes for.
According to the Sun, Napoleon's 'boney part' could fetch a price as high as 8000 pounds.
The tooth, extracted during his exile after defeat at Waterloo, is being sold at Swindon, Wilts, next week, said the paper.
Napoleon was held on St Helena, in the South Atlantic, after Waterloo.
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To: nickcarraway
St Helena..(now ascension island) ..a great place for Napoleon to spend his later years ....:o)
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posted on
11/03/2005 12:15:28 AM PST
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
To: Squantos
a great place for Napoleon to spend his later yearMany years ago I read of how some modern medical researchers got ahold of a lock of his hair that had been snipped off when he died. They found very high levels of arsenic and theorized that someone among his British captors had slowly poisoned him to death.
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posted on
11/03/2005 12:21:10 AM PST
by
CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
(The heart of the wise man inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. - Eccl. 10:2)
To: nickcarraway
Napoleon Bonaparte's tooth, which was troublesome and pulled out in 1817, is up for auction, and it is probably set to fetch much more than what a tusk goes for. My, my ...... how much does a Napolean tusk fetch?
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posted on
11/03/2005 12:32:22 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(Gloria Borger is Andrea Mitchell on Peyote)
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
I believe there were a lot of medicinal and cosmetic sources of that also, he may have cured his vanity alone too....
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posted on
11/03/2005 12:38:45 AM PST
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
To: beyond the sea
8000 pound tooth? That is one big tooth.
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posted on
11/03/2005 1:26:28 AM PST
by
MPJackal
("If you are not with us, you are against us.")
To: MPJackal
Yeh, pretty big for such a little guy.
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posted on
11/03/2005 2:23:39 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(Gloria Borger is Andrea Mitchell on Peyote)
To: nickcarraway
really!!!
Who weighs that much?
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posted on
11/03/2005 2:29:51 AM PST
by
wickedpinto
(The road map to peace is a straight line down an Israeli rifle.)
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
Many years ago I read of how some modern medical researchers got ahold of a lock of his hair that had been snipped off when he died. They found very high levels of arsenic and theorized that someone among his British captors had slowly poisoned him to death. In truth, from what I've learned, the slow poisoning may account for his change in demeanor upon return from his first exile. That the British would have continued the process following his latter defeat wouldn't surprise me.
Although I think some cheap lead and gunpowder following the first incarceration would have sufficed. It'd work for Saddam, too.
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posted on
11/03/2005 2:37:24 AM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
They're pretty sure that Napoleon was poisoned by a FRENCHMAN in his entourage, acting as an agent for the Bourbons.
To: Squantos
To: Charles Henrickson
I want to buy his elba. I will sell it to you cheap.
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posted on
11/03/2005 6:40:14 AM PST
by
Colorado Doug
(Diversity is divisive. E. Pluribus Unum (Out of many, one))
To: agere_contra
They're pretty sure that Napoleon was poisoned by a FRENCHMAN in his entourage, acting as an agent for the BourbonsYou say he was poisoned with Bourbon? How sad. That has happened to many a good man.
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posted on
11/03/2005 11:14:25 PM PST
by
CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
(The heart of the wise man inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. - Eccl. 10:2)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/10/2005 10:55:03 AM PST
by
aculeus
To: nickcarraway
where is he buried...shouldnt it be with him
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posted on
11/10/2005 10:56:47 AM PST
by
wallcrawlr
(http://www.bionicear.com)
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