Napoleon Bonaparte

Mummified animals brought back from Egypt by Napoleon’s scientists sparked a pre-Darwinian debate about evolution

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Georges Cuvier (left) and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck fundamentally disagreed about whether or not species can change over time.GeorgiosArt/iStock via Getty Images Plus; Kean Collection/Archive Photos via Getty Images Decades before Darwin, there was a debate about transformism, the idea that species change over time. Two colleagues from the French natural history museum faced each other. They … Read more

Is a £96 cup of coffee actually worth it? I traveled 5,000 miles to find out

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The Saint Helenian coffee that Napoleon Bonaparte drank is one of the rarest and most expensive in the world today – Getty Napoleon is currently a la mode with the release of Ridley Scott’s swashbuckling new biopic. But when he died in 1821 on the South Atlantic British overseas territory of St. Helena Island, after … Read more