Word: asta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Asta, Italy, one Giovanni Noverre made a wager. He then drank a glass of water, another five glasses,* another 14 glasses, another 23 glasses, then very slowly nine more, then seven more taken in gulps and sips; finally he raised the 60th glass poured it drop by drop down his gullet. After this glass, his wager won, Giovanni Noverre fell down and died...
...only recently been stirred again by Baron Ungern, the "Incarnated God of War": the Mongolia whose books and priests and legends speak of the day when the swastika of Jenghis Khan will be carried Westward, and all of Europe will fall under "the last march of the Mongols". "Asta is awakened and her sons utter bold words...