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...bishop died, Gia Long built him a great temple and wrote his epitaph. Some of the Nguyens turned Catholic, remained true to the memory of great Pigneau de Béhaine. The Imperial line did not. It massacred great quantities of Annamite Catholics, including its own distant Nguyen kin, and brought more French troops tramping across the rice fields into the Imperial City of Huê. Prince Vinh Tuy (Bao Dai), educated from nine to 19 in France, was France's crowning accomplishment. And it was no accident that the French Resident General of Annam allowed him to fall...
Investigator Saudek examined the writing of 234 pairs of identical twins, found that 5% wrote the same hand. Other pairs wrote enough alike to deceive a bank teller completely, to make experts hesitate. This degree of resemblance he also found in the handwriting of two young girls, no kin, both taught to write in the school of Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for the Deaf...
...State's largest cattle ranches and where he began practicing law in 1892 after leaving Washington University (St. Louis). He still goes back to Dillon to visit his brothers, still maintains his local reputation as a teller of prime fish stories. His branch of the family claim no kin with Republican Miles Poindexter, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator from Washington, onetime (1923-28) U. S. Ambassador to Peru...
...publishing a book he had written on Oriental symbols, eruditely entitled : The Chinese Monad: its History and Meaning. While Doom hummed with Monarchist delegations, Wilhelm decorated his head gardener and eight under-gardeners with the Royal Order of the House of Hohenzollern, led another religious service for his kin and house servants, inspected tons of birthday gifts including one huge wild boar (live) and bushels of congratulations. Protesting that "the only birthdays worth making memorable are those marking decades," he reminded his guests that in five years he will...
...crop of curse stories was especially thick last month when Arthur Weigall, distinguished Egyptologist who had visited Luxor, died of an undisclosed cause (TIME, Jan. 15). Searching the rosters of expeditionists, tomb-visitors and their near & distant kin, Hearstpapers found that no less than 20 persons had shared the ancient penalty. Dr. Louis Dublin, master statistician of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., examined the list of the dead, found that in 1923 their average expectancy of life was 20 years. Out of him was wormed the admission: "There is something uncanny about...