Word: victoria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...built at 200 lbs., he is married to a beautiful princess who has borne him three handsome children. Through his veins courses the bluest of Europe's noble blood. He is the grandson of Alfonso XIII, Spain's last ruling king, the great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, and a direct descendant of Louis XVI, France's last Bourbon monarch...
Negative Rays. A public viewing of Mboya's body, scheduled for that night, was canceled. At four in the morning, the funeral cortege set out, headed for the shores of Lake Victoria, the heartland of the Luos, 300 miles away. Mboya's coffin was draped in the national colors of black, green and red, and covered with tropical flowers. Nothing went right. After only five miles, one car broke down. On the escarpment of the Rift Valley, the car carrying Mboya's pregnant widow, Pamela, was involved in a three-car collision that injured five people...
Buckskin Drums. The final leg of the journey was to Homa Bay on the shore of steel-gray Lake Victoria; the cortege arrived after nightfall, and the surrounding hills echoed with the ceaseless throb of buckskin drums. Another Requiem Mass was held, celebrated by the African Bishop of Kisii, Maurice Otunga, and throughout the night mourners filed past the casket at the rate of 100 per minute. Finally, the coffin was ferried across the choppy water to Rusinga Island, the ancestral home of Mboya's clan. Outside the family home, Mboya's coffin was placed under a shelter...
...five no-hitters and 259 strikeouts in 105 innings. In the Series, he struck out 47 batters in three games, and scouts from ten teams scrambled for him. Baltimore finally picked up the 17-year-old fire-bailer with an $80,000 bonus and packed him off to the Victoria, Tex., Rosebuds...
...might bring more rhythmic pizazz to Calendar; none but the Royal could evoke the special virtues of Enigma Variations. Based on the orchestral score by Sir Edward Elgar, the work is a nostalgic visualization of a half-remembered spirit and place: green and pleasant England at the end of Victoria's reign. Before a stunning set by Julia Trevelyan Oman that at once suggests the languor of an autumnal afternoon and the oaken mellowness of a Worcestershire estate, the Royal's dancers bring to life the Malvern Circle of friends whom Elgar referred to, by initials or nicknames...