Word: 500th
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...price? A mere $52,000. And the cruise date? October 12, 1992, the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America...
...this occupied land, where remainders of German defeat, shame and partition are visible everywhere, is finding cultural solace and renewed pride in its heroes and native sons. In 1983, on the 500th anniversary of his birth, East Germany celebrated Martin Luther. Today, in their tercentenary year, it praises George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach, the two greatest composers of the Baroque. Here, where the lives and paths of such men as Luther, Handel, Bach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Richard Wagner intersect, the glory, unity and tragedy of German history are a living memory...
...work in space in ways that we never imagined were possible," he radioed the four-man, one-woman crew of Discovery. If the President has his way, nightly news viewers "ain't seen nothin' yet." Reagan wants to launch a permanent space station by 1992 (the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the New World) and have in place by the next century a Star Wars system of space-based missile defenses to protect the U.S. from nuclear attack. His national space strategy, announced last August, calls for the commercialization of space-through such novelties as orbiting...
King Juan Carlos of Spain at Harvard: "Nineteen ninety-two will be the 500th anniversary of one of the most important happenings in human history: the arrival in America of the three Castilian caravels chartered by my ancestors, the Catholic monarchs, and commanded by Christopher Columbus. It is not so much a historic commemoration as a horizon on which together we must fix our sights. Nobody can deny that there are enormous and highly complex problems in Hispanic America. But there are new leaders today who are determined to tackle the most intractable of them. An example of an important...
...These rarities demonstrate early printing shortly after the inception of the printing press. Houghton a staff includes a large staff of cataloguers and book binders. Houghton Library periodically puts together thematic displays in the Exhibition Room for visitors, as it did last month with one commemorating the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth...