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...others: The Making of a King, by Alan Lloyd, Invasion: 1066 by Rupert Furneaux, The Conquest of England by Eric Linklater...
...line then meanders through many monarchies-Hungarian, Aragonese, French-and finally back to Britain at the time of Edward II, whose brutal murder in 1327 provided a gory conclusion to Christopher Marlowe's biographical play. To Britons of Saxon descent who may still harbor resentment over the Norman Conquest, the fact that their Queen shares brave Harold Godwinson's blood can only come as a relief...
...could take away the years of lightning with a single day of drums," says Narrator Gregory Peck, as he eulogizes the authentic youth, vigor and intelligence of the Kennedy attack on half a dozen major issues. The Peace Corps, the Alliance for Progress, the "conquest of space," civil rights, peace and freedom are the projects ticked off-sometimes in conventional shots of happy peasants and hopeful Negroes, more often in briskly edited footage of Kennedy's trips abroad. The President's motorcade in Mexico City is barely visible through a blizzard of red, white and blue confetti...
Despite ultimate conquest by Rome, and later by the Turks, who ruled Rumania with Ottoman harshness for 400 years, the Colorado-size enclave retained its sense of separateness. Rumanians speak a lilting, Latinate language that sets them apart from neighboring vowel-deficient Slavs; though they say da for yes, they say bunā seara for good evening. Bloodied by the Central Powers in World War I, Rumania emerged into the modern world as a reactionary monarchy, sided with Nazi Germany during World War II; its fascist Iron Guard proved just as murderous and anti-Semitic...
...Faculty members sought to allay fears of Chinese world conquest in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday...