Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still battling the British Colonial Office, which has ordered them to leave Bechuanaland, Chief Seretse Khama and his white queen Ruth had had enough of power politics. Said Ruth: "I would prefer not to live in any British territory. They have brought unhappiness to us and kept Seretse and I...
Violent earthquakes last week shook the western Venezuelan state of Lara. Worst hit was the coffee center of El Tocuyo (pop. 8,000), one of the nation's earliest Spanish settlements. Many of El Tocuyo's historic buildings were of solid colonial masonry, but every building in the...
Scattered Army. Britain now has 827,000 men & women in uniform, counting the regular army, navy and air force, plus draftees and territorials. But the army is scattered far & wide: two understrength divisions in Germany, a brigade in Austria and one in Trieste, three divisions spread over the Middle and...
Out of Connecticut's colonial past, Mrs. Rollo and her lawyers extracted a Dickensian statute known as the Body Execution Law. Under that law, she had Mrs. Fox locked up in New Haven County jail to serve one day for every unpaid dollar of the judgment; she had to...
But colonial life had a lighter side, even when it was turned to the Indians. One John Lawson records how the Indians bought their liquor-by the mouthful. "And for this purpose the buyer always makes choice of his man, which is one that has the greatest mouth, whom he...