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...thank you in advance for your attention to my modest request. I hope that we will both see the time when, in the mind of the layman, Mars will cease to rule on a celestial throne, but will take residence with his friend and cohort, Satan, in the bowels of the earth...
...shipwright in Holland he built Russia's first effective navy. On land he defeated Charles XII of Sweden, most potent warrior of the age, at blood-drenched Pultava. But Peter I was a moody, discontented man. "Whose son am I?" he roared one day from the Throne. "Yours, Tihon Streshnief ? Speak or I will have you strangled...
Harum-scarum Prince Franz is 76. He was five years old when his elder brother, Johann, came to the throne in 1858, and therefore he had to wait over 70 years for Good Prince Johann's death and his own accession a few months ago. So good was Johann, in the purest dynastic sense, that Prince Franz lived in daily terror for some 20 years lest his affair with a commoner be found out. His secret morganatic marriage a decade ago scarcely decreased the couple's anxiety. Today the new Mother of Liechtenstein is 51. She and Prince...
Eichemeyer, learning that Employe Steinmetz devoured mathematical treatises even more readily than Tom Sawyer, allowed him enough liberty to make his great discovery, the Law of Hysteresis.† This brought Steinmetz kudos from the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and a permanent throne behind the scenes of the electrical industry...
...Persia. Fifteen years ago he was an insignificant private in Tsar Nicholas II's Cossack garrison in Persia. By persistent, painstaking banditry he terrorized the Persian Majlis (Assembly) into making him Minister of War, Prime Minister, Dictator and finally Shah-inshah, King of Kings, ruler of the Peacock Throne...