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...James Frazer's memorable journey through the world of dead religions - The Golden Bough. Meanwhile Rome, too, was born, flowered and withered into decay. One early expression of Rome's decay whom today's dictators might particularly have admired was Rome's monstrous Emperor Caligula (A.D. 12-41), whose favorite order was: "Kill him so that he knows he dies." Caligula built two incredibly magnificent pleasure galleys, in which to float imperially on charming Lake Nemi. The galleys were constructed of oak, pine and fir, covered with wool, sheathed in lead, studded with the bronze heads...
...tiptoed along red carpets and emerged in Grand Hall, an oblong place filled with marble pillars and gilded cherubs. There was George VI, King, Emperor, in the flesh, handing out medals and shaking hands with intrepid subjects who were queued up in a long line...
...Emperor Haile Selassie rocked the Coptic Christian Church to its 1800-year-old foundations. To Cairo and the Coptic pope, Patriarch Markarius III, the gentle Negus sent a rough message: the next Abuna, or archbishop, of Ethiopia must be an Ethiopian, not an Egyptian...
...Ethiopia's hierarchy. The present Abuna is bearded, scholarly Cyril, who came from Cairo's St. Anthony Monastery. He crowned Haile Selassie in 1928, has spiritual rule over 4,000,000 Ethiopian Copts. At royal worship in Addis Ababa's octagonal Cathedral of St. George, the Emperor kisses the Egyptian's silk-draped silver cross. But the Abuna continually vexes the King of Kings and the proud Ethiopian court: he offends the country's growing nationalism. Ethiopians complain that he will not learn the Ethiopian dialects, makes no effort to understand the Ethiopian...
They brought what was left of Mineichi Koga to Tokyo in a special train. He had done no great deeds, but he had died (they said) in action-and he was the Commander in Chief of Japan's Fleet. They enshrined him as a minor Shinto god; the Emperor granted him two decorations and a promotion to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet; the radio implored Japanese to "live the Koga...