Word: frankish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...April day in 963, Count Sigfroi, a Wagnerian warrior from the Ardennes, raised his banner over a fortress on a formidable rock above the Alzette River in the eastern Frankish empire. Though Sigfroi's wife soon vanished-she turned out to be a water nymph-and his fortress crumbled, the fief he founded proved as durable as it is diminutive. It is formally known today as the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and, though international surveys often omit its statistics entirely, it is a thriving charter member of the European Coal and Steel Community and the Common Market, as well...
...sure, the government established by Trujillo to administer his dictatorship seems to have the country pretty much under control, for the moment at least. Nevertheless, the political and economic structure erected over the past thirty years does not lead one to expect future stability. Like the ancient Frankish kingdoms, Trujillo's government was "despotism tempered by assassination." Intimidation and murder effectively wiped out any possibility of a meaningful "opposition," while Trujillo's demand for unqualified support and complete servility among his subjects have prevented him from grooming a successor...