Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played by Curt Jurgens, the colonel is the classic Prussian soldier: "I don't think, I act. Food--I eat, woman--I love, war--I fight." At which point Jacobowsky murmurs, "The finest mind of the 12th Century...
Speaking to the New Jersey School Superintendents Association, Conant suggested four years of one foreign language, with a possible three years of a second for talented high school students. The increased language requirement would replace 12th grade mathematics and science...
...miles west of Athens, where once stood a temple to laurel-crowned Apollo, is the domed Monastery of Daphni, whose fine mosaics were neglected for 700 years and are now recognized as a peak of 12th century Byzantine art. The church, named for the Virgin of the Laurels (in Greek, Daphni), stands behind a screen of cypresses, and its walls conceal a violent history. Seized and partially rebuilt in 1204 by Prankish barons, it was in turn captured and burned by Moslem Turks in 1460. The building was used in the 19th century as a powder magazine, fort, police station...
...bravura blaze of tremendous Gopak leaps as the lover returns triumphant to the village. In contrast with scenes more or less mirroring Soviet life, there are evocations of the past such as Khorumi, a heroic dance on themes of war and the hunt, performed in Georgia in the 12th century...
...Saladin!" shrieked the crowd, remembering the great 12th century Moslem warrior who swept all but a remnant of the Crusaders from the Holy Land...