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...parched Grahamstown, on the eastern coast of Cape Province, the royal family arrived just as the first showers in four months began to fall. "The King is the bringer of rain!" shouted 9,000 grateful Bantus massed in the town square. Dusky women, their faces painted white and yellow for the occasion, waved corncob pipes in lusty greeting; Bantu men, led by dapper Chief Vukile (in a smart brown suit and fedora) and his counselors (one in a gilded top hat, military greatcoat and pajama pants), raised cheers for "Sozizwe"(the Father of All Nations) and prepared to slaughter eight...
...years, 400-odd researchers have worried the question: Who was the man called Christopher Columbus? Was he a nobody from Genoa? A royal bastard from Portugal? An imaginative pirate from Catalonia? Annoyed with the name Christopher Columbus, he called himself Cristóbal Colón ("Bringer of Christ-Repopulator"). What was his real name? He claimed he went to sea at ten. Others snorted that he was only a high-pressure promoter. Why was he so evasive about his past...
...Bringer of life out of naught...
...already wearing swastika brassards, augmented by roving bands of Hitler Youth and Storm Troops. A great roundup and lockup of Socialists, Communists, labor unionists and Fatherland Fronters. the only legal party under Chancellor Schuschnigg, was instantly begun, and Seyss-Inquart sped to Linz to greet his master, Hitler. Ultimatum-bringer Josef Bürckel stayed in Vienna to reorganize the Austrian Nazi Party and prepare a plebiscite for April...
...great trilogy, Aeschylus made Prometheus, the fire-bringer, pay a fearful price for defying Zeus. On seeing Sophocles' Oedipus Rex & Oedipus Tyrannus good Athenian audiences were properly shocked at the King's insensate stubbornness in attempting to influence economic conditions. The mythical hubris of the Trojans before their city was sacked was only matched by the historical hubris of the Athenians themselves just before their defeat in the Peloponnesian...