Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miller said that the documents are important for research at the university. "We consider [the King papers] to be among the crown jewels of the 20th century collection of papers" at Boston University, he said...
Yale and Cornell have established themselves as legitimate challengers for the Ivy crown, although Dartmouth, at 3-0, remains atop the heap...
...peasantry against their English and Anglo-Irish masters. As one of many preludes to Clonbrony, the episode ended badly when Lord Cornwallis arrived with a superior force. The French were treated as prisoners of war and eventually sent home. The surviving Irish were denounced as traitors to the British crown; many were hanged...
...retired in 1952 -- were clouded by his failure to realize that the Soviets had penetrated SIS and were reading his own mail. "Only people with foreign names commit treason," he once said, and he was unwilling to believe that a fellow golden boy like Kim Philby could betray Crown and country and the establishment that had been so good to both of them...
Every year on Christmas Day, Queen Elizabeth II delivers a holiday message. Mindful of the separation of crown and government, she has dwelt on generalities and ignored politics. Not this year. Although she did not mention the Irish Republican Army by name, the monarch warned that sectarian differences had "corroded into intolerance, bigotry and violence" and pleaded for "tolerance, not terrorism...