Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everything and the value of nothing. They pay a visit to a kind of hermit of integrity, a bachelor, writer and onetime friend unseen for 15 years. A bearded pixy, nicely played by Costigan, the writer likes to surround himself with pygmy baptismal fonts, and serve drinks from 16th century eyecups...
...palettable painting party for his 400th birthday. Present: Antonio Frasconi's woodcut portrait of the poet; John Sennhauser's collage soliloquy, To Be or Not To Be; Philip Evergood's charcoal-and-wash of Macbeth and the witches; Mel Silverman's Will plastered against a 16th century papier-mache London; 16 other artists. Through April...
...other chaplains also received the Medal of Honor during the Civil War-they were Francis B. Hall of the 16th New York Infantry for action at the Battle of Salem Heights, Va., May 3, 1863, and Milton L. Haney for action in Atlanta in July 1864. During the Civil War, the Medal of Honor was the only decoration given for bravery. Some 1,577 medals were given to Civil War fighters, while only 429 were awarded during World...
...Chinese conquered most of the area before Christ was born and ruled it for 1,000 years before Columbus discovered America. When not battling the hordes from the north, the Indo-Chinese slaughtered each other. Burma carried out devastating invasions of Thailand in the 16th and 18th centuries; Thailand fought Viet Nam for control of Laos; both the Thais and the Vietnamese marched southward against Cambodia. In the 14th century, Thailand finally destroyed Cambodia's then-great Khmer Empire, and 200 years ago the Vietnamese overran Saigon-which was a Cambodian fishing village. The European colonizations beginning...
...most archaic of sports, is in fact a relatively modern art. Paradoxically, it resulted from the invention of gunpowder, for until then swords men had always flailed away with weapons that looked and hefted more like crowbars than épées. By the 16th century, Italian gallants had developed a light, delicately balanced rapier with the sharp point that enabled them to thrust instead of slice with the blade. Thus was born true swordsmanship. It was a century later, at the court of France's Sun King, that the long, trailing rapier yielded to the short-sword...