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Napolean Didn't Meet Aresenic-Laced End

Italian researchers deflate claim of arsenic death

By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 10, 2008 8:00 AM CDT

(Newser) – For decades scholars have debated whether Napoleon, who died in exile on the island of St. Helena in 1821, was poisoned with arsenic by his British captors; as recently as 2002 a biographer wrote that there was "nothing improbable about the hypothesis." But...   Read full story »

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