Word: 14th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destiny of Ethiopia has been sealed today, May 9 of the 14th year of the Fascist revolution. . . . Italy at last has her Empire. It is a Fascist Empire, because it bears the indestructible sign of the will and power of the lictors and fasces of Rome...
...ailment. He also had a selection of photographs of himself at different ages; a map on which was charted a course from Augsburg to a blue-penciled circle which outlined the grounds of Dungavel Castle near Glasgow. Dungavel is the seat of 38-year-old Wing Commander Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, 11th Duke of Brandon...
Died. Lady Maud Agnes Bowes-Lyon, 70, sister of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and as such aunt of Britain's Queen Elizabeth; after an operation; in Worcestershire, England...
...Byzantine Empire held off the Saracens for generations with Greek fire -a mixture of pitch, sulfur, quicklime and naphtha squirted from siphon-like devices. Gunpowder outmoded Greek fire in the 14th Century, and the steel warships of the 19th Century outmoded the red-hot cannonballs which often ignited wooden frigates...
...American universities and museums, a number of mosaics, among them a pool which may be installed in the Museum court; an unfinished painting by Piero di Cosimo, 15th century Florentine master, entitled "The Misfortunes of Silenus;" and a Siamese head of Buddha, in wood, of the 13th or 14th century, from the well-known Eumorfopoulos Collection, in London...