Word: crowning
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...silver. Similarly, it took 240 pennies to make a pound because that was the number of pennies that weighed a pound.* Shillings joined Offa's awful system in the 16th century, and that basically formed the current currency setup-though such denominations as the florin (2 shillings), half crown (2½ shillings), guinea (21 shillings) and sovereign (approximately 3 guineas) came along at various times...
That is a duty that the boyishly handsome Bond (he once modeled for Royal Crown Cola posters) is unlikely to shirk. The son of the dean of Atlanta University's school of education, Bond was publicity director of the militant Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee until last September, and has been an articulate advocate and organizer of the New Left. For much of the past year, he has supported his wife and three children by writing and lecturing, now has a book in the works on his rebuffs by the legislature. Title: A Georgia House Is Not a Home...
...Polish art. Given by Polish King Casimir the Great to the cathedral in Plock in 1370, the gilt object commemorates the martyred king of Burgundy, killed by the Franks during the 6th century, who became so popular that three kings of Poland took the name of Sigismund. The crown, studded with tourmalines, diamonds, pearls and sapphires, was commissioned in Venice nearly 150 years before the making of the bust, which was fashioned in Germany...
...shooting fraternities. Their aim was to defend their city walls; more often they were social militias. Their targets were wooden birds atop staffs, a custom recalled in the Cracow fraternity's emblem, which was the gift of Sigismund Augustus in 1565, with its silver cock resplendent in royal crown and symbolically attached by a chain to its perch. Poland has been partitioned out of existence only to re-emerge as a nation, changed again under present-day Communism, but its ancient traditions are preserved in its art. In fact the shooting fraternity of Cracow still exists. Each year they...
...Harvard win could tie it with Princeton for the League crown. The Yalies, who beat Harvard last year, stand now at 2-3, and this year it looks as if the Crimson has a slight edge...