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Legend has it that the first emperor of Japan was descended from the sun and the sea, and ascended the throne on Feb.11, 660 B.C.* During the 26 centuries since. Japanese governments have often used the legend as an anchor when storms rocked the ship of state. During the deadly gale of World War II, the government played up the legend to bolster morale, even forced eminent scholars into backing the "divine nation" story...
Since the war. the legend has dimmed. Few knowledgeable Japanese have taken the tale seriously since Emperor Hirohito conceded in 1946 that he was only human, after all. Last week, determined to clear up the matter of the nation's divine origins, a band of 30 jeep-riding scientists swarmed around the mountain peak of Takachiho on the island of Kyushu, where, according to legend. Ho-wori-no-mikoto, the heavenly ancestor of emperors, came to earth...
...looking for: two stone blockhouses about 25 ft. square. Between them ran a road divided by stone markers into two 8-ft. chariot-ways. The road had been surfaced three times. Grimes estimated that the forts and road were built in A.D. 70-90, about the time of the Emperor Vespasian...
...legend of 4th century St. Malchus is readymade for Hollywood-complete with caravans and capture by infidels, a fake marriage and a lovelorn heroine who became a hermit herself for love of the saint. The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, sealed up to suffocate in a cave by a persecuting emperor, were placed in miraculous hibernation by the Lord, to emerge 208 years later to their own astonishment and the edification of all good Christians...
Married. Archduchess Charlotte of Habsburg, 35, middle daughter of Empress Zita and the late Charles I (last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), sister of Austrian Pretender Archduke Otto of Habsburg, and longtime (1943-56) welfare worker (under the name of Charlotte de Bar) in Manhattan's East Harlem; and Duke George of Mecklenburg, 56; she for the first time, he for the second; in Pocking, Germany...