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...claim other distinguished people and events too: King John signed the Magna Carta within the parish boundary, and King Henry VIII courted Second Wife Anne Boleyn in the yard of one of the Thames-side houses-that caused a rumpus...
...Magna Carta. Catholic Bible experts began catching up with the rest of the scholarly world after 1943, when Pius XII issued his encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu. Written largely by German Jesuit Augustin Bea, now the cardinal in charge of Rome's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, the encyclical encouraged Catholics to study the historical background of Scripture, and to use modern critical techniques developed by Protestant and Jewish scholars. Bible scholars hailed the encyclical as their Magna Carta; conservative theologians thought it an open invitation to a modernist revival...
...world's oldest industrial corporation is still going strong. Where? In Sweden. In operation 73 years after King John signed the Magna Carta and more than 200 years before Columbus discovered America, Sweden's Stora Kopparberg Bergslags Aktiebolag has fueled Sweden's industrial growth over the centuries, and today is a modern diversified giant whose eye is on the future. Stora Kopparberg is Sweden's largest producer of electricity, one of the biggest manufacturers of pulpwood and newsprint (with exports to 40 nations), the largest supplier of dairy and agricultural produce, the biggest steelmaker...
...done on airplane flights, during which officials of one Deutsche Bank branch after another accompany him in relays like Pony Express riders, a new team coming aboard with its problems at each stop. But Abs has also found time to spearhead an increasingly potent campaign for an international "Magna Carta" that would discourage governments from arbitrarily expropriating or discriminating against foreign capital...
...Magna Carta. Latin America's Christian Democrats share a common heritage with the powerful European Christian Democratic parties, led by Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Italy's late Premier Alcide de Gasperi. Like the Europeans, they base their philosophy on the famed Rerum Novarum encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, issued 70 years ago and known as "the Magna Carta of Labor" because it advocated labor unions and insisted that the state guarantee to the worker a fair share of the fruits of his labors...