Word: argonauts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elizabeth took a last walk around the grounds with Philip, then climbed into a car for the drive to Nanyuki Airport. A Dakota flew the royal couple to Uganda, where the same four-engined Argonaut that brought them from London was waiting to carry them home again. A few minutes after the first takeoff, the plane's pilot picked up a radio message of condolence from Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Then, at last, Britain's Queen broke down in sobs...
...With a brave half smile, she came quickly down the steps. The black-clad semicircle bowed as one man. Elizabeth shook hands with the Prime Minister. Then, followed by Philip, she walked gravely along the line of Privy Councilors, shaking hands and murmuring a word to each. The Argonaut's eight crewmen disembarked and saluted, and the Queen shook hands with each of them. Then she climbed into her waiting car and rode to Clarence House, past rows of silent, bareheaded subjects lining the road, mile after mile. As she stepped from the car, a guardsman tugged...
...American home, on an old-fashioned American farm in the old-fashioned American State of Missouri. She died in a magnificent Spanish hacienda in California, surrounded with every exotic luxury that the brain of man could conceive, or the heart of woman desire." She married a rough & rowdy Missouri Argonaut named George Hearst, who lost two fortunes, but won three in gold & silver. In San Francisco, on April 29, 1863, she gave birth...