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...Molotov. At 11:58 the body of Stalin was pushed behind the big metal doors of the mausoleum. At the first stroke of noon by the Kremlin clock, a wave of sound-artillery salvos, clanging chimes, blasting factory whistles-ranged across Soviet Russia and its satellites. Thus was the conqueror laid to rest-not with a prayer, but with whistle's scream and cannon's roar...
After his death, no leader of equal stature arose to rule the immense, unwieldy empire. For a time, his grandson, Kublai Khan ruled in self-indulgent splendor over China, a conqueror who had been softened by the pleasures of the conquered. Legend does not exaggerate his luxury. Each of his four wives had a palace with 500 virgins as serving maids and retinues of up to 10,000. Kublai also maintained 10,000 spotlessly white mares for the production of his favorite tipple, fermented mare's milk (kumiss). Twice a year the country was scoured for concubines. Yet Kublai...
Indeed, as Napoleon's little squadron sails northward to France through the British blockade, Herbert can hardly restrain a huzzah. Miraculous! he chortles. "The gods were on Napoleon's side." However, says Herbert, the decision to escape was by no means a pleasant one for Napoleon. The conqueror of Europe, Herbert assures his readers, wanted nothing but to make Elba "an island Athens," and "die peaceful and happy" there. "The charge is not that one man, through wild ambition, would not accept defeat. It is that the many, having no magnanimity, were unfit for victory." The book ends...
...descent from a supporter of King John's in his war with the barons, had his pedigree lopped by 200 years. The best proved ancestor Pine could give Lady (Harriet Kathleen Grace) Thompson, whose family had for generations enjoyed descent from Odo, brother-in-law of William the Conqueror, was one Oliver Grace, a 16th century M.P. from Tipperary. "I'm challenging Burke's to show by what authority they make our family suffer this indignity," said the outraged Lady...
...whose family never dared peep behind Henry VIII for forbears, learned that his line went right back to Richard I, second of the Plantagenets. "There is a very great probability," said Editor Pine last week of the Howe family, "that one of their ancestors came over with the Conqueror . . . I may trace a direct descent from him even before the coronation...