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ENGAGED. Princess Marie-Astrid, 27, eldest daughter of the reigning Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg; and Karl Christian von Habsburg-Lorraine, 27, Brussels banker, son of Archduke Charles Louis of Austria and grandson of the late Austrian Emperor Karl I; in Luxembourg. Princess Marie-Astrid made headlines last year because she was the last eligible princess to be linked with Britain's Prince Charles before he chose Lady Diana Spencer. Astrid's wedding is planned...
Tsar Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, would seem to some an unlikely candidate for sainthood. He consulted faith healers, intervened highhandedly in church affairs and ruled with a sublime ineffectiveness that helped pave the way for the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. But last week in New York City, Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, their son and four daughters, all murdered in 1918 by the Bolsheviks, became saints. In an unprecedented ceremony of glorification, they, along with some 30,000 other Russian Orthodox Christians killed by the Soviets, were named "martyrs" and canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia...
...with the Corsican. Instead, it pays homage to him by providing hail to beat the drums of dead soldiers to announce his victory. And although the film takes him only so far as the beginning of his campaign into Italy in 1976--a full eight years before he became emperor--it seems that at any second Napoleon may be translated into heaven...
Another unfortunate consequence of the Barrier Act was to encourage the French to try to push their frontier east of the Mississippi. The Emperor Napoleon had been tempted to sell all of France's New World holdings-for as little as ? 3 million-but Jefferson, that consummate troublemaker, convinced him not only to keep his 828,000 square miles but to populate them with the landless peasants of France and Southern Europe. If it had not been for Jefferson-non piangere per me, indeed!-America, our British America, might now extend from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains...
...Emperor of Dune, Herbert...