Word: scions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, in the year 660 B.C. began the divine dynasty whose 124th scion is the Emperor Hirohito, the Magnanimous-Exalted, the Sublime Majesty, the Imperial Son of Heaven of Dai Nippon (Great Japan), in whose reign the Japanese nation was fated to attempt to carry out the Emperor Jimmu's command...
...Scion of the Ages. Hirohito was born in the lying-in chamber of Tokyo's Aoyama Palace on April 29, 1901. Japan itself was suffering a rebirth. It was 48 years since U.S. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry had opened the ports of the Land of the Gods to U.S. trade and western ideas. Four years hence Japan would defeat vast, backward Russia and emerge as a foremost Pacific power...
...General Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeberg (head of the German Navy since Admiral Doenitz became Reichsführer) to reply. Grey-faced and grim, that scion of a long line of Prussian officers asked permission to surrender three German armies-not those facing Montgomery to the north but those facing the Russians to the east...
...Albrecht Luitpold Ferdinand Michel, Prince of Bavaria, scion of the Wittelsbachs and the Stuarts (a few British Jacobites still regard the Wittelsbach line as Britain's rightful sovereigns). He was taken by U.S. troops in a Bavarian hunting lodge. His father, former Crown Prince Rupprecht, Field Marshal in Kaiser Wilhelm's armies, was taken by the Allies in Italy...
Fritz & Hedy. Fritz Mandl was the scion of Austria's pre-Anschluss Hirtenberg Arms factory. In Vienna of the 1920's he acquired notoriety as a young viveur who gambled for high stakes, and kept fancy apartments. His grande affaire was Second Wife Hedy Kiesler (Lamarr) of Ecstasy fame...