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Word: bonifacio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgians, was unable to reach her bedside in time. When the babe was one day old he was carried on a satin pillow into the chapel of the Royal Palace where Cardinal Ascalesi, Archbishop of Naples, christened him with twelve names: Vittorio Emanuele Alberto Carlo Teodoro Umberto Bonifacio Amadeo Damiano Bernardino Gennaro Maria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: God's Sign | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...defamed their public integrity and private morals. The Balintawac meeting at which 20,000 were expected was the feeble culmination of vigorous political agitation. A copy of the Roosevelt book was violently hammered on an anvil, doused in kerosene, burned on a bamboo pyre before the statue of Andres Bonifacio, one of the native leaders of the vain 1896 revolution against Spain. When a peasant in the crowd shouted Matay si Roosevelt ("Death to Roosevelt"), leaders quickly hushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Bookburning | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

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