Word: albanian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then he returned to his quarters-the entire third floor of 27 rooms, 15 baths, private dining room and elevator, costing $500 a day for himself and entourage (four Albanian bodyguards, three governesses, one chauffeur, one manservant, one ladies' maid, one pressagent, five Italian policemen...
During World War I, an Albanian was asked how he felt about the war. "What?" he replied. "Two dogs are fighting for a bone, and you ask the bone how it feels...
Five Fingers (20th Century-Fox) injects the long arm of Hollywood coincidence into the super-melodramatic, real-life story of World War II Spy Ulysses Diello, Albanian valet of the British Ambassador to Turkey. During 1944, Diello photographed and sold to the Nazis such top-secret documents from the British embassy in Ankara as the minutes of the Moscow, Cairo and Teheran conferences, and plans for Operation Overlord (the Normandy invasion). Ironically, the Nazis made no use of the information for fear that Diello, who operated with the code name "Cicero," was a British plant. Most...
Besides the standard topics of Anthropology, Fine Arts, Law, the University receives treatises on subjects such as Afrikaans Literature, Sex Relations and Feminism, Friesian Language, Low German Literature, Albanian Literature, and Hungarian Grammar...
...California coast from San Francisco, includes among its 16,000 population two notable linguistic groups: the sardine fishermen, who speak Portuguese, and the U.S. Army and Air Force men, who speak in many tongues-Russian, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Chinese (both Cantonese and Mandarin), Japanese, Korean, Albanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Persian, Hungarian, Rumanian, Greek, Polish, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Last week 190 new officers and men arrived in town. Within eleven months, most of them will also be speaking new languages with rapid-fire fluency...