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...almost 700 years after Pompey's conquest, Syria was a Roman and Byzantine province, but sometimes it was difficult to tell who were the conquerors and who the conquered. When Rome celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of her founding in A.D. 248, the Roman Emperor was Syrian-born Philip the Arab. As the incubator of Christianity-Paul was converted on the road to Damascus-Syria gave Rome five Popes: John V, St. Sergius, Sisinnius, Constantine and St. Gregory...
...country to Our Lady Queen of Poland just 300 years ago. On an open-air altar high above the plains surrounding the shrine, a mere speck of red to most of the crowd, Cardinal Wyszynski celebrated Mass, opening a nine-year novena that will end in the 1,000th anniversary of Poland's beginning as a Christian land...
...musical hoaxes in a reverent and earsplitting performance. Originally hailed as a newly discovered coronation Mass by 17th century Composer Etienne Moulinié, the work was presented in 1951 in Paris' Basilica of St. Denis before a distinguished audience as part of Paris' celebration of its 2,000th birthday (breathed one critic: "Perhaps the foreign visitors . . . were able to feel what the Kingdom of France once meant"). When a musicologist belatedly discovered that Composer Moulinié had never written a Mass, Father Emile Martin of Paris' Church of St. Eustache dutifully confessed that he had composed...
...first time since 1945, a U.S. citizen won Boston's Patriots' Day Marathon. Schoolteacher John J. Kelley, 26, of Groton, Conn, breezed home in 2 hr. 20 min. 5 sec. Running the 1,000th race of his career, and finishing a creditable 13th: John A. Kelley, 49 (no kin to John J.), the 1945 and 1935 winner...
...barely outnosed Calumet Farms' Gen. Duke to take the $131,400 Flamingo Stakes at Miami's Hialeah. Across the continent at California's Santa Anita Park, Jockey Johnny Longden, 47, who has won more races than any other rider past or present, booted home his 5,000th winner, genially shrugged off questions about retirement...