Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prime example of exquisite early ironwork. Les Halles were designed by Architect Victor Baltard, working with Baron Georges Eugene Haussmann, the city planner who created much of modern Paris. Baltard's first pavilion, shaped in stone, was so gross that Napoleon III personally ordered it torn down. The Emperor told Haussmann: "I want big umbrellas. Nothing more." The baron told Baltard to try iron, and this time he caught the spirit. The grace of what marketmen ever afterward called their "parasols" has enchanted generations of Frenchmen...
...preliminary agreement for the treaty with Japan's Prime Minister Eisaku Sato in 1969, was not present. The official explanation was that while Sato is merely head of government, Nixon is head of government and state as well. Protocol thus dictated that he not attend unless Emperor Hirohito put in an appearance in Tokyo. After Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi signed for Japan, Sato said that he was "happy beyond words" and hailed the treaty as the beginning of "a new Pacific...
Americans have always been afflicted with ice-creamania. Their per capita consumption, currently at 30 pints a year and still counting, has traditionally led the world. Though the invention of ice cream is usually credited to the Emperor Nero,* it was the U.S. that gave mankind the ice cream cone and the soda. Now there are signs of a fundamental shift in the frozen foundations of the Republic: Americans are beginning to turn a cold shoulder to the three pillars of their forefathers' frigid faith-chocolate, strawberry and vanilla -and flocking to flagrantly concupiscent flavors like Passion Fruit, Kumquat...
...According to a school of diplomatic thought dating back to Woodrow Wilson, only constitutionally elected governments should be acceptable to the community of nations. The Nationalists can also cite a more widely held point of international law, the so-called "Ethiopian Principle," which dates from 1938 when Emperor Haile Selassie was in hiding from his country's Italian invaders. Rome then sought international recognition of its sovereignty over Ethiopia but was rebuffed on the grounds that so long as a government retains any part of its territory, it is still the legal government of the whole country...
...King David?" In Ethiopia, Uganda and the Congo, where Israel's defense forces conduct military training and operations, Israelis are also the people of the gun. In Ethiopia, they have trained the country's entire security force, including commando units operating against Eritrean rebels hostile to Emperor Haile Selassie. Israeli agents in southwestern Ethiopia direct airdrops to southern Sudan's black rebels in their fight against the Arab-run Khartoum government...