Word: elephantitis
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King Birendra succeeded to the throne on the death of his father, King Mahendra, in January 1972 but has waited for more than three years for the "most suspicious" moment, as determined by the royal astrologers, to be crowned. The ceremony, which will take place today, is largely a symbolic...
A century of history has brought little change. Corruption is still ubiquitous-but so, happily, is the editorial cartoon, grinning out from banks of gray prose. In about 16 square inches, that journalistic institution still manages to encapsulate crises, expose pretensions and eviscerate swollen egos-all with a few well...
Died. Baron Jean-Louis de Portal, 23; of gunshot wounds; near Montauban, France. Together with his mother and sister, Jean-Louis barricaded La Fumade, the Portal family's 30-room mansion, shortly before the death of his father Baron Leonce in 1973, and refused to relinquish it to the...
The huge sea mammals live in an extraordinarily peaceable harmony with nature. They find food and avoid most dangers easily, have leisure, know rapture. Their history goes back 50 million years (v. 5 million for man) to the time the first cetaceans abandoned the land and took to the waters...
It is much easier for you To pass an elephant through a needle's eye, Or catch fried fish in a galaxy, Plough the sea, Force a crocodile to speak Than to destroy by persecution The shimmering glow of a belief, Or check our march, One single step.