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Created in 1831 by King Louis-Philippe, the legion was conceived as a force of foreign mercenaries battling for France abroad. Declared Louis's Minister of War: "So they wish to fight -then let them bleed and shovel sand in the conquest of North Africa." The legionnaires spearheaded France's colonial ambitions-conquering Algeria, subduing Morocco, then going on to incursions in Mexico and Indochina. In victory, the legion created a legend. In 1837, one battalion seized the supposedly impenetrable Algerian citadel of Constantine, perched atop a 1,000-ft. crag. Half a century later, another Foreign Legion...
...community where he was born. Most of his spectacular feats, past and present, have been undertaken alone. These include having climbed four of the highest mountains in the world: Mont Blanc in France, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Aconcagua in Argentina and Mount McKinley in the U.S. To train for his conquest of the North Pole, he made a 7,500-mile trek from Greenland to Alaska by dos sledge...
Though Uemura's one-man conquest of the North Pole is unique, his expedition was the fifth to succeed since the U.S. Navy's Robert E. Peary and his six-man team first attained the North Pole in 1909. Like Peary, Uemura had set off from Ellesmere Island, now part of Canada's Northwest Territories. Early in the trip, 30-ft.-high formations of compressed ice known as pressure ridges blocked his route across the frozen Arctic Ocean obliging him to hack passageways through the ice to make way for his 882-lb. sledge. Temperatures dropping...
...patriarchate continues to enjoy fully all the rights and privileges accorded to it by the law. The fact that this institution has existed in Istanbul with a special status since the conquest of the city by the Turks in 1453 is a living proof of Turkish tolerance and respect for freedom of conscience...
When public utility repair crews digging at a busy Mexico City street corner in February made their find, it created an instant sensation. Rumors arose that the long-lost treasure of Montezuma II, the Aztec emperor at the time of the Spanish conquest, had finally been located. As archaeologists roped off the site, indignant Mexicans protested: "We have a right to the gold. We pay our taxes...