Word: birendra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit is the fourth stop on an eight-city tour for Birendra and Nepal's queen, Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah. The royal couple will also meet President Reagan and other government officials in Washington, tour Epcot Center in Orlando, attend a Cowboy-Redskins game in Dallas, and visit Mayor Andrew Young in Atlanta...
Sixteen years ago, Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev was a student at Harvard, where he lived in Quincy House, joined the Fox Club, and studied economics and American government...
Nepal's hereditary monarchy dates back to 1559, the year of King Drabya Shah's unification of a people already almost two millenia old. In the unbroken line of kings that has followed, His Majesty Birendra Shah in 1972 assumed the throne vacated by the death of his father Mahendra Shah, and his grandfather Tribhuvan Shan before him. Like his brother-in-law, King Birendra also attended Harvard, spending 1967-8 as a Quincy House student "taking a crash course in affairs of state," according to Shah...