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...primary purpose of a queen is to have children. In Moslem kingdoms such as Iran, where only a man can ascend the throne, it is of even greater primacy that they be male...
...dabbling in mathematics on the side, he had by 1922 already stumbled on the secret of letting the line speak for itself. Set against monochrome backgrounds, it could float as joyously as a ribbon on a June breeze, take on the tension of coiled springs, jam up in anger, ascend in triumph or struggle behind the heavy, heavy black grillwork of despair. But for decades Hartung's new-found language spoke only to himself and a few fellow artists. Between 1922 and 1946 he sold only three paintings. Says he: "I don't know how I managed...
...virtually every royal house, regnant or deposed, in Europe are related to Europe's most prospering crown, Britain's. Among them is Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, who is descended from King James I's granddaughter, the Electress Sophia of Hanover, and thereby legally entitled to ascend the British throne -provided that the 60-odd heirs who precede him all die. Last week, after a year of litigation, the British court of appeal ruled that Prince Ernest's ancestry entitles him to an even more useful privilege: that of British nationality. By implication, the court...
...apostasy to the violation of Christ's marriage law." The head of Britain's Methodist Conference granted the Princess' right to marry a divorced man. but he was no less firm than the Anglicans in denying Margaret and her prospective issue the right to ascend the throne...
Semantic Denials. Unabashed, Pastor Crist tried to justify many of his denials by semantics (on the Ascension: "Ascend means to go up ... Where is up?"), insisted that all his teachings constituted "a permissible point of view within the Lutheran Church." Some Lutheran synods permit liberal interpretations of the Augsburg Confession, the 16th century work embodying basic Lutheran beliefs. But the Northwest Synod, although one of the more liberal U,S: Lutheran groups, clearly faced in Crist's teaching a threat to its basic tenets...