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...medieval Rome, when swords were drawn in factional street fighting, the battle cries of the two most powerful families were "Orsini for the church!" and "Colonna for the people!" For more than a millennium the princely Orsinis have stood firmly beside the Vatican; tradition credits them with five Popes, 18 saints, 40 cardinals. Eleven Orsini women became queens; Orsini men married twelve daughters of kings and emperors. In 1725 Pope Benedict XIII sought to end the continuous feuding between Orsini and Colonna by ordering that the leader of each house should alternate as his Prince Assistant at Mass and other...
...pain-little of his thoughts. He is brave; some of the others are cowardly, but courage and the lack of it do not matter; nor does brutality or kindness. The meaninglessness of war swallows everything. West German Novelist Ott is writing about men engulfed by the dark millennium Yeats foretold when "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...
...Middle America, archaeologists are uncovering at a laborious pace the remains of the incredible art and culture of Indians who lived as long as 3,000 years ago. They have found, buried beneath the brush and muck of the jungle, skillfully formed stone sculpture done by Olmecs perhaps a millennium before Christ. Even more remarkable was the civilization of the Mayans, whose artists, sculptors and priest-scientists of some 1,500 years ago left behind marvels of work and thought. so advanced that they have been called the Greeks of America...
California, said Fred Allen, is all right if you are an orange. Henry (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer) Miller believes that it is even more all right if the oranges are the ones painted by Hieronymus Bosch in his famed Millennium- enigmatic little cosmological fruit "far more delectable, far more potent, than the Sunkist." For Author Miller is a devotee of the great Dutch painter (c. 1450-1516), who is believed to have been a follower of a heretical order called the Brethren and Sisters of the Free Spirit...
...ancient conquests. The new states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were created out of what had once been St. Stephen's realm. Rumania got a large slice, and the Hungarian nation was reduced to a puny third of the Carpathian basin where Arpad had made his home a millennium earlier. Its predominantly Magyar population of 8,354,400 was 75% Roman Catholic, 20% Calvinist, and the balance Greek Orthodox, Uniate, Lutheran and Jewish. In 1919, amid the anarchy of defeat and humiliation, a disciple of Lenin named Bela Kun, freed from a Russian prison camp and sent back to Hungary...