Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chubby young Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence, it had been a most enlightening year. Last week, pleased with his son's progress, the Emperor of Japan rehired Crown Prince Akihito's U.S. tutor for another year, at a raise in salary. Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, a Quaker lady from Philadelphia, had well earned her $2,000 and keep...
...display their intellectual attainments. This was on a radio quiz show. "On what river is the U.S. Naval Academy located?" asked the quizmaster. Why, said Miss Utah, on the Mississippi River. Miss Chicago was convinced that Maryland had been named for Queen Elizabeth, and that Napoleon had been crowned Emperor by the French people (correct, the judges decided, because Napoleon, who crowned himself, was one of the French people).* Miss Chattanooga was asked: "What is the capital of Massachusetts?" She shifted uneasily, hesitated, finally burbled something which sounded very much like "Petroleum...
...Napoleon's becoming emperor was very much his own idea, but it was approved by the French Senate and by a plebiscite. Pope Pius VII journeyed to Paris for the coronation, but when it came time to put on the crown, Napoleon took it from the Pontiff's hands and put it on himself...
...middle of the 15th Century, Moneybag's descendants had established a dynasty and a tyranny. Ivan III married Zoe, the niece of the last Eastern Roman emperor, who brought Byzantium's religion, architecture and incense-heavy intrigue to Moscow, which was now more powerful than any other Russian city. She hoped to make it succeed history's two earlier Romes (the one on the Tiber and the one on the Bosporus). Ivan took the title of Czar, i.e., Caesar, and Sovereign of all the Russias. He began to build a strong brick wall around the Kremlin...
Wonderful Time. In all its 125 free years, Brazil had never celebrated an Independence Day like this one. Brazilians looked back to the day in 1822 when young Dom Pedro, the Portuguese Emperor's son, spurned the imperial decrees from Lisbon, and uttered the words "Independence or Death" that had made Brazil a free nation. The U.S. had stepped forward as the first country to recognize Brazil as a sovereign nation. After Dom Pedro and his son had come (in 1889) the Republic...