Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ababa. In St. George Cathedral more than 100 stocking-footed priests of the Coptic Christian Church began their matins to the booming rhythms of a throbbing bass drum and the jangle of silver rattles. In the streets thousands of adoring subjects set up a howling cry of greeting for Emperor Haile Selassie, the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God and 225th in a long line of Ethiopian emperors who traced their ancestry back to the Queen of Sheba herself. A moment later, the tiny, dignified, bearded monarch, resplendent in blue uniform and green sash all enveloped in a redlined...
...Person of the Emperor. "This is the day," the little Emperor told his subjects soon afterward, "of fulfillment of the gracious pledge so often reiterated by us, that our beloved people are to share in the responsibility of the public affairs of our government." Facing him in the parliamentary chamber were 210 representatives of the people, victors in the first election ever held in Ethiopia's 3,000-year history of autocratic rule...
...legislators stood respectfully before their seats as the Emperor spoke, for Haile Selassie's newly promulgated constitution made one point inescapably clear: "By virtue of His Imperial Blood, as well as by the anointing which He has received, the person of the Emperor is sacred. His dignity is inviolable and His Powers indisputable...
Tomb & Church. Around 322, Christian Emperor Constantine affronted the wealthy tomb owners by ordering the construction of a great ramp of earth from the side of the hill against which the tombs nestled. Ruthlessly, though with great care not to disturb the dead, most of the tombs were sliced off to the level of the ramp, and their interiors were rammed full of earth. On this ramp Constantine began the construction of the first Church of St. Peter...
...young lady, a gawky girl of 13, was a distant cousin whose father had recently become King Emperor. A devastatingly handsome young man of 17, Philip could not be expected to show any great interest in her as a woman, but he could scarcely duck entertaining her. As an officer and a gentleman, he did his best to please by leaping lithely over a tennis net ("How good he is. Crawfie. How high he can jump!" cried Lilibet to her governess), and spicing the conversation on the royal yacht with salty -though not too salty-anecdotes. Elizabeth was entranced...