Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carved out of special pink marble used only on imperial edifices, this statue, it is believed, originally appeared in the temple or triumphal arch of Emperor Trajan, who reigned from 98 to 117 A.D.
"Quelle Horreur!" At 5:30 on the evening of Sept. 30, 1869, France's Empress left St. Cloud with her staff, her pets and her retainers to board the imperial yacht Aigle at Venice and sail to Suez. On the way they called on Italy's Victor Emmanuel...
Quelle Emotion. The next day France's imperial yacht led a triumphal procession of flag-decked yachts, warships, steamers and sailboats from a score of nations through the rest of the canal. Everybody worried about running aground. "During the entire trip," wrote De Lesseps, "the Empress felt as though...
The Science Council was not organized nor even blueprinted by the U.S. occupation. It is an outgrowth of the dissatisfaction which Japanese scientists have felt toward the stiffly hierarchical science bodies inherited from imperial Japan. In the early days of the occupation, Japanese scientists, hungry for outside news and without...
Father Franz Joseph was more furious than grief-stricken when he heard the news. Years before, a tailor had tried to kill him, and ever since he had used the word "tailor" to describe anything that he considered utterly contemptible. So now he shrieked: "My son died like a tailor...