Word: zoroastrian
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...report, ''His Majesty [Alfonso XIII], famed as 'the only man ever born a king,' has thus etc." (TIME, Jan. 19). Thus you ignore lamed oldster, the militant Zoroastrian Shapur II, onetime (310-379 A. D.) hard-boiled king of Persia. Potent foe of Christianity, he also slew Apostate Julian, drove the Romans from Mesopotamia, Armenia, cowed Jovian, died a king. Alfonso will need to step- FREDERICK B. Noss...