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Another day had begun for Farouk I, King of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, Sudan, Kordofan and Darfour, and for his young Queen, who are currently in the 13th week of their honeymoon...
...R.A.F. went after the Baltic port of Liibeck one night in March 1942 because Lübeck was a vital link on the Wehrmacht supply line to Russia. It was no part of the R.A.F. plan that the fire bombs rained down on Lübeck's beautiful 13th Century Marienkirche, but fire melted the church's great bell, gutted the interior. Repair crews got a surprise: whitewash had peeled from the walls, revealing patches of vividly colored frescoes beneath...
Reinforcement of towers and masonry came first, but by last year trained workers began chipping away the rest of the Marienkirche's whitewash. Slowly they uncovered panel after panel of 13th and 14th Century work. With crude but forceful strokes, the old Gothic craftsmen had covered the walls with stately saints and serene virgins, friezes of animals and flowers, medieval street scenes, vignettes from the Bible and Aesop's fables. The colors, brilliant reds, blues, greens and yellows, were still unfaded...
...Waldenses, who like to think of themselves as the first Protestants, were followers of a French merchant named Peter Waldo. They publicly objected to papal pomp and corruption, and in the 13th Century were driven into the hills, where they managed to survive despite sporadic attempts to exterminate them. One massacre inspired Milton to write his famed sonnet...
...really cracking the whip in the Cleveland pennant drive was Righthander Bob Feller. The onetime boy wonder, who has never had a losing season since he came to the majors, was having his best ever. His 19 victories (four defeats) leads both leagues in his 13th year in the majors, puts him well on the way to 25 wins for the season...