Word: queenly
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King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth were so pleased with the Hudson locomotive on the train that carried them across Canada on their 1939 royal tour that they granted the title Royal to a group of Hudson locomotives. One of these, Locomotive 2860, traveled proudly through British Columbia for 16 years before it was forced off the tracks by diesel engines. Rescued from the Winnipeg scrap yards by the government of British Columbia, 2860 was refurbished in 1974 and is now the only steam engine in regular mainline service in North America. Tom Savio, a former stationmaster...
DIED. FRED KELLY, 83, Broadway dancer and choreographer who taught his brother Gene to tap dance, gave ballroom-dancing lessons to Queen Elizabeth and helped a young John Travolta learn how to swivel his hips and improve his strut; in Tucson, Ariz...
...Harvard Law School is the Queen Elizabeth--no one thing is going to change its direction," says Gottlieb Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren, who chairs the Institutional Life Committee (ILC), which deals with student life issues...
DIED. IOANNA, 92, Bulgarian queen; in Estoril, Portugal. Her marriage to King Boris III was blessed by Mussolini, and her husband was rumored to have been poisoned by Hitler. She helped many Jews escape the Nazis, and was exiled in 1946 when communists dissolved the monarchy...
DIED. FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, 71, Austrian painter and architect best known for designing a brightly colored Viennese apartment building lacking any straight lines, which the artist considered to be "the tool of the devil"; of a heart attack, on the Queen Elizabeth II cruise ship...