Word: armor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Battle cruisers differ from battleships principally in that they sacrifice a certain degree of armor protection for greater speed. They are much larger and more heavily armed than scout cruisers...
...Armor protection: Colorado and Mutzu about the same; Hood much lighter...
...Money Crusade. In the Middle Ages knights in armor went on crusades to recover to Christianity the holy places in Jerusalem. Today the British, having at last put Jerusalem under Christian oversight, are appealing to all Christians to be knights of the open purse, and give liberally toward the preservation of the holy places for which the older crusaders fought. The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem has, since the year 328 A. D., kept intact many of the sacred buildings and sites of Palestine. Most of the income of this little patriarchate came from Russia. This support is now almost...
...Stanley Park the President spoke. He referred to the long unguarded border of the two countries as an example which Europe would do well to copy. " Our protection is in our fraternity," said he, " our armor is our faith. . . . The ancient bugaboo of the United States scheming to annex Canada disappeared from all our minds years and years ago. (Cheers.) . . . And if I may be so bold as to offer a word of advice to you, it would be this: ' Don't encourage any enterprise looking to Canada's annexation of the United States.' ... I entreat...
...thousand years before it was destroyed in the middle of the Fifteenth Century in the wars between the Swedes and the Danes. A church almost as large as the Gothenburg Cathedral has been unearthed as well as several smaller churches, a hospital, a castle, city walls, private houses, armor, tools, coins and weapons...