Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reign of the Emperor Valentinian, there occurred in an obscure part of the heavens, an explosion to which the eruption of Vesuvius was but as the striking of a match. Columbus discovered America and Washington fought the Revolution in complete ignorance of the cataclysm. Not until the year of grace 1934 did J. P. M. Prentice of Stowmarket, England, first observe the results of the convulsion, known to men as Nova Herculis. Over 10,000 observations of its progress have been made since, according to Leon Campbell instructor in Astronomy at the Observatory...
Breathless, popeyed, footsore runners from the Northern Front brought Emperor Haile Selassie news that 4,700 Italians have been killed by Ethiopians in savage skirmishes bordering the area nominally conquered by Il Duce's forces. Runners from the Southern Front told of the capture from Italians of 1,000 precious rifles and 20 priceless machine guns, of Italian tanks stranded and abandoned, Italian native troops mutinying...
Well satisfied on the whole with Ethiopia's brightest war week thus far, Emperor Haile Selassie, whom the knitting and poker-playing correspondents now call "Little Charlie" among themselves, flew to Harar on the Southern Front...
...move into China without an Imperial Order-something august and rarely given. In Tokyo suppressed excitement grew so thick that Japanese would not have been surprised had civilian Foreign Minister Koki Hirota or War Minister General Yoshiyuki Kawashima been assassinated last week. Japan's man-on-horseback, Emperor Hirohito, and China's Generalissimo Chiang seemed momentarily to face each other in a nose-to-nose stalemate...
...Caulain-court fell in love with a married woman whose husband had left her, wanted her to get a divorce so he could marry her himself. Afraid of the scandal of his own divorce, Napoleon would not permit another in his court. Thus Caulaincourt, although he never betrayed the Emperor, distrusted him, always observed skeptically the genius who blinded and infatuated most of the soldiers with whom he was in contact...