Word: caligula
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...arms coming out of the body of the church. To round out his grand plan, Bernini placed 140 statues of saints, each 12 ft. in height, around the rim. With its two fountains, each 45 ft. high, and its center fixed by the massive, 320-ton obelisk that Emperor Caligula had brought from Heliopolis. the finished square was so vast that it has been called "the first large open space within a city...
Warren's appointment to the Supreme Court is Eisenhower's biggest blunder and the most inept since Caligula named his horse a consul...
...Reckless is by no means the first horse to be honored for wartime services. Alexander the Great named a city after Bucephalus, his favorite mount. The Roman Emperor Caligula caused Incitatus, his stallion, to be elected a priest and a consul. The skeleton of Robert E. Lee's horse, Traveler, still stands near Lee's tomb at Lexington...
...Robe, is an energetic attempt to fling the mantle of sanctity over several more millions of the entertainment dollar. It offers a number of The Robe's sets, at least two of the same scenes, and three of the same stars -Jay Robinson, who plays the Emperor Caligula with a heavy sneer; Michael Rennie, who portrays Peter as a sort of apostolic Anthony Eden; and Victor Mature, a bulky fellow who helps in filling the huge CinemaScope screen...
...Freedmen's Bureau (an agency to aid and educate former slaves), Stevens rose in the House and called the North Carolina-born President "an alien enemy, a citizen of a foreign state." In the Senate, Sumner cried that Johnson was "an insolent, drunken brute, in comparison with which Caligula's horse† was respectable...