Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Council for Judaism is to be congratulated on its stand against Zionism. I am a Christian and respect Jews who place religion before Zionism, or Israel...
...friends and foes alike, Segni gave the new Cabinet post to brawny, brawling Giuseppe Togni, 53-year-old founder-president of CIDA, the Italian business executive union. A onetime marble cutter who worked his way up to a top management job in Italy's vast Montecatini chemical company, Christian Democrat Togni is a vocal exponent of free enterprise. He is also one of Italy's most unrestrained antiCommunists, two years ago set off the worst riot in Italian parliamentary history by bellowing at Communist deputies: "I would like to know how many ex-spies of the OVRA [Fascist...
...independence. It began in greater discouragement than Gunnar or his competitors ever knew. In the bitter winter of 1520, Gustav Eriksson Vasa, then 24 and a fugitive from a Jutland prison, came to Dalecarlia with news of the "Stockholm Blood Bath," a mass beheading of Swedish noblemen with which Christian II, already King of Denmark and Norway, had celebrated his coronation as ruler of Sweden. The political slaughter had been designed to stifle Swedish resistance to the Union of Kalmar, which bound together Sweden, Denmark and Norway under one crown. But when the Dalecarlian peasants refused to believe young Vasa...
After Vasa left, other fugitives arrived with word of Christian's massacre. Aroused at last, the peasants sent their fastest skiers to catch Vasa. These couriers stopped him only 20 miles from the border, the present site of Sälen. Now the Vasa Run commemorates his return, the start of the revolution that freed Sweden...
...period was a Saxon count, Nicholas von Zinzendorf, on whose estate a group of Moravian refugees settled in 1722. They established a community called Herrnhut-the place God will guard-and here developed some of the customs that are peculiar to the Moravians today, such as reviving the early Christian agape, or love feast, which, unlike Communion, is a real meal shared in mutual devotion...