Word: barone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike his three-year-old son Prince Charles, who on his mother's accession automatically became Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Grand Steward of Scotland, the Duke of Edinburgh has no change in titular status: he is still simply the Queen's husband. It is an awkward and difficult position. His last predecessor was Victoria's German-speaking husband, and Britons took a long time getting used to Albert. Philip, born in Corfu and once sixth in line for the Greek throne, is a great...
Missionaries & Soldiers. Spanish conquistadors thought they would find there the fabulous El Dorado. Jesuit missionaries took the word of God as far upriver as Esmeralda. In 1800, Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt took an expedition farther than any scientist before him, and the world of botany was enriched with more than 6,000 species of new plants. Humboldt also discovered a link between the water systems of the Orinoco and the Amazon...
Married. Lewis S. (for Samuel) Rosenstiel, 60, Cincinnati-born liquor baron, founder and president of Schenley, who once embarked on an unsuccessful campaign to teach 5,000 parrots to say "Drink Old Quaker" and install them in bars; and Louise Johnson Stark, 53, his first cousin, a surgeon's widow; he for the third time, she for the second; in Atlanta...
...opponent whose guns or engine were not functioning properly." The German ace, Ernst Udet, remembers how his French peer, Georges Guynemer, refused to fire when Udet's guns jammed. And Floyd Gibbons vibrates excitedly over the death of the greatest German ace of World War I, Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
Other officers named to the new executive board were Michael Joseph Halberstam '53 of Torrington, Connecticut and Dunster House as Associate Managing Editor; James Moorfield Storey '53 of Jamaica Plain and Eliot House as Sports Editor; and James Baron Adler '53 of Freeport, New York and Winthrop House as Advertising Manager...