Word: atilla
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...mixture of bloods, French, Spanish, Negro, Carib, Hindu, Chinese. Once a year, on the two days before Lent, Trinidad goes crazy with a carnival of rum-drinking, parades, musicmaking, mummery-blacks painted or masked as whites, whites as blacks. During carnival, Trinidad characters bearing such names as The Lion, Atilla the Hun, The Caresser, The Growler live high and merrily. They are the Calypsonians of the island, who compose, play and sing the Trinidad music known as Calypso.* Their songs, whose jerky rhythms and insinuating tunes suggest Africa and South America as well as the West Indies, tell of local...
Alice propped her face up in her sticky hands and went on reading dreamingly: "In 451 A.D. King Theodoric united his forces with the Romans and defeated Atilla at the Battle of Chalons, thus saving France from the rule of the Huns. For this deed alone European civilization owes a great debt to the brave leader of the Visigoths. The Bessemer process, for making steel without carbon was invented by Henry Bessemer in 1855, and is one of the chief factors behind the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century...