Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A well known writer of history once said that no one could properly appreciate the genius of Richelieu unless he had stared long at the portrait of the Cardinal that hangs on the sepurchral walls of the Louvre. This is probably one of the truest of his statements. Philip de...
These two great figures owe a certain small part of their fame to two great artists and in turn these two great artists find a small share of their immortality in two great actors. Sir Henry Irving in the last years of the nineteenth ventury played Becket before the gaping...
To the uttermost parts of the world goes news of the election of Achille Cardinal Ratti, Archbishop of Milan, to be Rome's 261st Pope. Facts: he is 64, stocky, a onetime mountain-climber; famed as Papal Nuncio to seething Poland; a sober, scholarly cleric; a politically-minded, potent man...
The Hitler policy is designed for the purpose of catching votes without regard to consistency. It promise a social and economic utopia for the masses, the class which ultimately controls the government through the ballot. Nordicus explains a cardinal Hitler principle when he says. "For every intelligent head there are...
At 20 "Murray" Butler was graduated by Columbia. He went off to Europe to study in Paris and Berlin, armed with letters to four of the world's most potent men: Pope Leo XIII, William Gladstone, Otto von Bismarck, John Henry Cardinal Newman. They gave his international, political, social notions...