The failure of the European Union may have started with the choice of the flag. Not that national flags are supposed to be works of art, but...

  Napoleon Bonaparte in full imperial regalia. He got close to creating a European Empire, but he failed in the end. He faced the same strat...

         Empires are alive, they move, they grow, they feel, they die. They have a soul that sometimes can be glimpsed, as in this unbelieva...