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Parliament flies the flag for St Helena’s national day
21 May 2021 2021
The tiny volcanic island of St Helena has gifted its flag to fly at the entrance to the UK Parliament on its public holiday.
The blue embroidered flag, which features the Union Jack and a shield with the rocky coastline of St Helena, a three-masted sailing ship with a Wirebird atop, was raised in New Palace Yard on Friday, 21 May.
Kedell Worboys, the UK’s representative of the St Helena Government, said it was a huge honour to see her nation’s flag flying in such a prestigious place.
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Obsession With Cologne May Have Caused Napoleon s Death! Published May 10th, 2021 - 12:47 GMT
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Highlights What they have missed is the huge volumes of cologne that Napoleon smothered on his body.
Napoleon Bonaparte hero of the French Revolution and twice emperor of France may have been killed by his extreme obsession with cologne, a study has claimed.
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The former leader died on May 5, 1821 on the remote Atlantic island of Saint Helena, where he had been in exile for six years following his surrender to the British navy.
While autopsy cited the cause of his death as stomach cancer, conspiracy theories abound from poisoning at the hands of his captors or his arsenic-dyed wallpaper.
Napoleon’s bath meets its Waterloo Published: 10:05 PM, May 09, 2021
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One of the many things Napoleon Bonaparte was famous for was taking long soaks in the bath, during which he read newspapers and held forth to his entourage.
It was a habit he carried over to isolated but relatively comfortable exile, reinforced by his doctor recommending it as therapy for chronic skin rashes.
Now, the copper bathtub he used in Saint-Helena, his remote island prison in the South Atlantic, is being put on show in perhaps the most famous site associated with the French emperor: Waterloo, in Belgium.
There, inside a museum that is part of the Waterloo Memorial commemorating the close defeat of Napoleon’s troops in June 1815, it features alongside other exile memorabilia, including indoor garb and billiard balls.
Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St Helena on May 5, 1821
While his autopsy cited stomach cancer as the cause, other theories abound
Some argued his death had been faked, while others said he had been poisoned
Now, 200 years later, biomedical scientist Parvez Haris has an different theory
The ex-emperor accidentally poisoned himself with an overdose of essential oils
This, he says, explains much of Napoleon s deteriorating health in his final years
The military genius would use some 50 bottles of Eau de Cologne each month