Word: sacredness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forgotten Royalty. During the next 200 years, 37 members of the royal family were laid to rest there in hermetically sealed sarcophagi, and the tombs were untouched until the Napoleonic invasion of 1808, when French troops drove out the nuns and turned the cloister into a barracks. Later, when Wellington...
When the assembly voted for this proposal it did go under rights granted it in the UN Charter, rights "to recommend measures for peaceful adjustment of any situation ... which seems likely to impair ... relations among nations." Jerusalem certainly presents such a situation. The Holy City, important because of its size...
Too Good. From Los Angeles, Hilton went shopping in New York. "When I saw all those people in the streets, I didn't see how you could lose money," he says. "And I had to establish myself in New York. I could borrow money from my Texas friends to...
On the Veldt. Three years ago a message came to Scott in Johannesburg from black friends on the veldt: in South West Africa, a former German colony mandated by the League of Nations to the Union of South Africa, the white men were plotting to defraud the black men of...
Ana Maria is fond of lilies and orchids, which she grows, and wild about bullfighting. Having studied in the U.S. for a year at San Francisco's Sacred Heart School, she would like to travel more, hopes to take up social work as a career.