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When the police finally stopped the fighting, some 50 persons (including 24 cops) had been injured by punches, kicks, scratches, bites, falls, or blows inflicted by undetermined objects. Next day Shigeru Yoshida called on Emperor Hirohito to apologize for the obloquy that Japanese legislators had brought on their country. In the Diet, the upper house passed the police bill by standing vote, the Socialists abstaining...
...regent from Louis XI's death in 1483 until Charles came of age. But the scene they are acting is thought to be a Biblical one: the meeting either of King Ahasuerus and Esther or of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Charles' illustrious forebear, the Emperor Charlemagne, is in the small panel at the upper right, labeled "Karlus." In the large lower right-hand panel, the artist has illustrated a popular medieval legend. He shows Emperor Octavian asking the Tiburtine sibyl whether any king as great as he would ever live; the sibyl replies by showing...
Rorimer believes that the tapestry was probably commissioned by Charles VIII's father-in-law, the Emperor Maximilian of Austria, as a gift to the young King, who, at the age of 12, had married Maximilian's daughter, three-year-old Margaret. The tapestry was cut into three sections sometime before the middle of the 19th century, and the various parts found their separate ways to the U.S. The Metropolitan got the right section as a bequest in 1941; last year it traded the Walters Art Gallery another fine tapestry for the center section; the left part...
...military band's wailing strains of Yetopia Xezb Mezmur, the Ethiopian national anthem, Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie I officially began a seven-week royal tour of North America at Washington's National Airport, stopped off at the White House, spent the night there in Abraham Lincoln...
Died. Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia, 67, widow of the late Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and daughter-in-law of Germany's last emperor, the late Kaiser Wilhelm II; after long illness; in Bad Kissingen, Germany...