Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard Wagner was finally readmitted to the repertory of the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra by the City Council, which decided to lift its four-year...
...last year, the Helena steamed into her first major engagement. She was part of the task force ordered to intercept the strong Jap force moving to reinforce their units on Guadalcanal. In the Battle of Cape Esperance, the U.S. force turned back the Japs, sank four cruisers, four destroyers and a transport. The Helena cashed in then on her gunners...
...Allies might dictate it to get other useful bases: Angola and Mozambique in Africa, the Cape Verde Islands off Dakar. They might even desire Portugal itself for a march into Hitler's Fortress via Spain...
Seven years ago a sad-eyed little man in a black cape stood up in Geneva and shamed the statesmen of 50 nations. Italians booed and the rest looked away while Emperor Haile Selassie, dispossessed by Italian arms and mustard gas, cried out for international morality...
...Rhodes Scholarships (two from each U.S. State and Territory, three from each of 18 British colonies and others from Germany) were founded under the will of Cecil John Rhodes, Briton who made a fortune mining diamonds, became Prime Minister of South Africa's Cape Colony at 37, died in 1902 famed as the "Empire Builder." The first Rhodes Scholars went from the U.S. to study at England's Oxford University in 1904. The Scholarships have been discontinued for war's duration...