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...ancient coronation ceremonies began in the courtyard of the ornate royal Palace of the Monkey God, the slight young King, in white jodhpurs and tunic, and his young Queen Devi, in a bright red sari, strolled casually in to take their places, cross-legged and barefoot, on white cushions placed before the throne...
...world's richest men (estimated yearly income: $8,000,000), who, as India's Gaekwar ("Keeper of the Cattle") of Baroda (1939-51), ruled a princedom of 8,000 sq. mi. with some 3,000,000 subjects: his second maharani, cigar-smoking Sita Devi, 41; after 13 years of marriage, one child (Prince Sayajirao); in Bombay...
When Shakuntala Devi was five years old in Bangalore, India, she liked to sit at the side of her uncle, who was studying mathematics at the university. As a joke, he told the little girl about cube roots. One day, when Shakuntala wanted money to buy candy, she offered to help her uncle with a problem in cube root if he would finance the candy. When he laughed, she promptly wrote down the correct answer on a sheet of paper...
Along with the ski boots, the Limmers make mountain climbing boots and walking shoes. One pair of the climbing boots was worn by Arthur Emmons on the 1936 accent of Nanda-Devi which not a world climbing record...
Minya Kouka started a series of daring Asian climbs. The highest mountain ever scaled--Nanda Devi--fell originally to an HMC group in an ascent where the routine calamities of mountain climbing expanded into a series of near-disasters. Seven Harvard men (plus a gentleman from the Alpine Club of London) attacked the 25,600-foot "White Goddess" in 1936 and (1) ran into a glacial flood, (2) lost half of their local porters in a mass mutiny, (3) had to make six trips down a 12-mile gorge to carry in supplies, and (4) had a case of ptomaine...