Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Priceless 12th Century manuscripts from the presidental library in Seoul...
...body lay. At sundown,* a cortege of George's woodsmen and gamekeepers, headed by a kilted pipe-major playing a Scottish lament, wheeled the bier to the parish church, where the King's body lay in state for two days before being taken to London's 12th century Westminster Hall, adjoining the House of Commons.† Across the meadows and through the woods went the soft lament of the bagpipes. All that night the King's gamekeepers, in green buckskin jackets and dark knee breeches, took their turns standing honor guard in two-hour shifts, four...
...Services Rendered. It may be a sad comeuppance for the proud and potent Hospitallers, whose origins go back to the Crusades. In the 12th century, they were well established in Jerusalem as an order of brothers caring for poor and sick pilgrims, and with a contingent of their own armed knights to protect them. For their services, the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, as they were then called, won historical privileges from the Holy See, e.g., independence of all spiritual and temporal authority save that of the Pope, exemption from tithes, and the right to their own chapels, clergy...
Though married men are permitted to become priests in most Eastern Rite Roman Cathohic churches, such permission has been otherwise extremely rare since the 12th Century...
...mining Ipoh, the airport was sealed off by 300 troops, while men of the 12th Lancers surrounded him in a body, led him to an armored car. "What, another one!" said Lyttelton, climbing aboard. "Close the hatch," said the officer in charge. Lyttelton saw the tin district through the eye-slit in the armor. In Kuala Lumpur, Lyttelton transferred to the bullet-proof automobile which had been brought from England, too late, for assassinated High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney (TIME, Oct. 15). At Negri Sembilan he was presented with the red-starred khaki cap of a Communist shot five days...