Napoleon abdicated today, the 11th April, 1814. He had been ruler of 70 million people, 30 million of them French, the rest Spanish, Belgian, Dutch, some Italian and German. He had also ruled parts of Poland and Yugoslavia. Then he attacked Russia. After the disaster that was Russia he was outnumbered two to one by a coalition of Austrian, Prussian, Russians and Swedes at the battle of Leipzig, losing this battle. This too had come after the loss of Spain to Wellington(June 1813).
On the 31st March 1814 the Allies entered Paris. His Generals persuaded him to abdicate in favour of his 3 year old son. His 10 year Empire had come to a close.
He tried to poison himself on the 12th, but ended up vomiting and not dying. On the 29th he was on his way to exile on Elba.
He would return.
You heard it here first - Immortality
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula
A Jelly-fish that is naturally immortal. It essentially reverses and restarts it’s aging cycle, and although it’s still suceptible to predation and disease, It otherwise -never- dies of age.
Yet no one seems interested in studying it… ?!?! wth?
No single specimen has been observed for any extended period, so it is not currently possible to estimate the age of an individual, and so even if this species has the potential for immortality, there is no laboratory evidence of many generations surviving from any individual.
I mean, pfftp, who could possibly want to learn about an IMMORTAL jelly-fish/form of life, what good could that possible be <sarcasm>Just look at the process it uses - the creature is not even mentioned!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransdifferentiationI totally want some in a salt-water fish tank, to pass down Generation to Generation, who wouldn’t!</sarcasm>
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I mean, if the Red Baron ate these for lunch… maybe he -never- would have died.
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No room left after all the Champagne and caviar
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