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.
Nawlins/Katrina + 1 yr. : What did we learn for NEXT TIME?
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I have not seen that one. I have seen the seperation by county and the seperation by state. (I think the state’s the least accurate.)
The bleeding one’s probably the most accurate, as long as they bled it based on percentages, not just 50/50 when it wasn’t 80% or more for one side or the other.
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That’s kinda neat, but I don’t think it’s very accurate. For instance, Illinois is purple…now I know I am the ONLY republican in the entire state of Illinois, so how do I personally change the entire state to purple???
*that was a joke, in case you missed it.
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One of the things that stands out to me is in North Carolina. Most of the stte is red or purple. But look at the top center. That big blue square is Durham, NC (actually, Orange County).
And I find it also rather interesting that the only areas that are REALLY red, are those areas that are nearly devoid of population.
Oh and Jen… while Illinois may be purple… Cook County is as blue as can be :-)
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thats one is terrible. I’ve seen two after this one 3. priceton of all places has no liberal bias eh. Kind of reminds me of berkely universities “scientific studies”.
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And you think it is more valid to show it as just “red” whehter the vote was 50.1% or 99.9%?
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no.
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Then you get the Purple Map.
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So, what do you have against Barney, Gays, and Prince?!?!?!
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@ncscswitch:
One of the things that stands out to me is in North Carolina. Most of the stte is red or purple. But look at the top center. That big blue square is Durham, NC (actually, Orange County).
And I find it also rather interesting that the only areas that are REALLY red, are those areas that are nearly devoid of population.
Oh and Jen… while Illinois may be purple… Cook County is as blue as can be :-)
Don’t I know it! Cook County is also one of the most morally corrupted coutnies in the United States of America. Whether that’s because of the in-duh-viduals running it or because of the party, I don’t know.
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anyone got another map?
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You can get the one form Sean Hannity’s site if you want the red and blue only map. But you said you did not think the one that was just “red” whehter 501% or 99.9% was valid.
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