Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 4, No. 2 - January 13, 2022
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A Food Delivery Robot is at LAX
NomNom is a cargo robot that is able to carry up to 40 pounds of food at a time as it follows behind delivery staff from AtYourGate, which delivers food ordered via LAX Order Now. The robot can move at
speeds up to 6 mph and uses a series of cameras and sensors to recognize and follow its handler throughout the airport. The LAX Order Now service offers contactless order pickup from LAX restaurants,
with optional delivery available directly to the gate areas in select terminals. Guests can scan QR codes throughout the terminals or visit LAXOrderNow.com to browse menus, place an order and pay.
Photo courtesy LAX.
Chasing Napoléon Bonaparte
Article and photos
by Ben & Glinda Shipley
In 1940, when Adolf Hitler arrived to play
tourist in the newly conquered city of Paris,
his favorite photo op took him to the Left
Bank and the massive dome of Les Invalides,
gazing down at the tomb of the nineteenthcentury
French Emperor, Napoléon Bonaparte.
It was the greatest moment of Hitler’s life—he
would later say—when he finally came faceto
tomb with his spiritual idol.
Today, most would agree that Hitler’s
legacy has vanished into nothing more than
a dirty stain on the pages of history. There
are no monuments to his military victories,
because they all eventually ended in failure.
His legal code dissolved into a nightmare of
thuggery and opportunism, and his squeakyclean
social revolution lost all credibility in
the snows of Stalingrad and the ovens of
Auschwitz. You can travel virtually anywhere
Hitler conquered—or came to play
tourist—and you’d be hard-pressed to find
a trace of the man.
In the nineteenth century, on the other
hand, it can be argued that Europe made the
modern world; that the French, more than
anyone, made Europe; and that Napoléon
made the French.
Most famously, there were the military
victories and Napoléon’s complete re-write
of the laws of military strategy. There was
his destruction of the guilds and feudal
systems that had stifled invention and commercial
competition since the Middle Ages.
There was the common-sense Napoleonic
legal code that, even today, governs a huge
chunk of the planet. There was the fervor
of nationalism that, for better or worse, has
become the key to world governance. But
mostly, there was the sense that individual
merit—and not birth or class—should be the
sole determinant of a human being’s worth
and social mobility.
Not that everyone remembers the Emperor
so fondly. From the minute the Mob stormed
the Paris Bastille on July 14, 1789, they set
off a wave of war, revolution, and terror that
would engulf all five continents well into the
twentieth century. The British, Austrian, and
Russian aristocracies threw everything they
had into holding back the modern era, and
if it wasn’t for Napoléon, they might have
succeeded. This is the reason the Emperor’s
sarcophagus at Les Invalides—fashioned from
huge blocks of Russian quartzite and French
granite and marble—feels a bit gaudy and
overdone to celebrate a mere human being—
yet woefully inadequate to memorialize the
impact of Napoléon Bonaparte.
So… What about the human being at the
eye of this hurricane of energy? Who, what,
and where was he? How can we as travelers
get a feeling for the ages that made him and
the forces he encountered, latched onto, commanded,
and unleashed? After growing up
in the shadows of Waterloo, we’ve spent a
lifetime chasing Napoléon’s story through the
ancient Europe he disrupted and the modern
world he did so much to create. A handful
of the many stops along the way:
Ajaccio, Corsica.
The neighborhood where Napoléon was
born into a large and happy bourgeois family
was anything but uncomfortable. But it was
much too small, dull, and conventional for a
man of his talents. Once Napoléon became
Emperor, he sent plenty of money and public
works home, but never gave a thought to
returning himself.
Toulon, France.
The first test of Napoléon’s organizational
genius, which he passed with spectacular
Childhood in Ajaccio—Mama Letizia’s little big man with all the plans.
See Travel, page 7