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...Delhi last week, civil defense forces staged two blackouts to prepare the capital's 3,630,000 residents for the possible outbreak of open warfare with Pakistan. Both blackouts failed miserably. While half the city was plunged into darkness, Connaught Circus, New Delhi's Times Square, remained lit up like a Christmas tree...
Bertrand, one of nine children, grew up in Connaught. Ontario, a logging and mining town of 150 people. Junior B Hockey brought him to Toronto where he earned his living as a policeman. He took courses at York College at night, and played on their hockey team over the weekends...
...16th century. At 15, the wild child of the North was such a terror to the English that the viceroy shut him up in Dublin Castle for safekeeping. At 19, he escaped and launched a campaign of impetuous brilliance that drove the British out of Ulster and Connaught. In the next nine years, the O'Donnell and his tall gallo-glavses made Irish stew out of British armies sent against them. Then, while on a mission to the court of Spain. Red Hugh fell afoul of a British agent who accomplished with a philter what could not be done...
...thousand students in Delhi marched from the Red Fort in the old city to Connaught Place, shouting anti-Chinese slogans and waving banners reading "Choke the yellow opium eaters!" and "Wipe Out Chink Stink!" That evening, brandishing torches, the students charged police lines before the office of the Communist Party while a handful of Red underlings cowered in the darkness behind a hedge on the office lawn. The desperate Indian Communists finally issued a party statement denouncing both Moscow and Peking, and appealing to "all sections of the people to unite in defense of the motherland...
...English widow, Queen Victoria Eugenia, as the "last surviving granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria." There are at least two other granddaughters of Britain's Queen Victoria still very much alive-namely: Lady Patricia Ramsay (daughter of Victoria's third son Arthur, Duke of Connaught) and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (daughter of Victoria's fourth son Leopold, Duke of Albany...