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Painter Bouguereau went to Paris, won the coveted Prix de Rome in 1850. He was twice married, the second time at 71 to Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner of Exeter, New Hampshire. He fought twice for France, never forgave Germany's Empress- Dowager invited French painters to exhibit in Berlin. Most French painters objected. Bouguereau said: "If I have to go to Berlin alone, I shall go. I consider it a patriotic duty to conquer the German painters in the very capital of German Empire...
Into the Army in Manhattan went Prince Gaëtan de Bourbon-Parme, 37-year-old brother of former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary, week after the induction of his nephews (Archdukes) Felix and Charles Ludwig. The nephews will probably wind up in the much-criticized battalion of Austrian nationals promoted by brother Pretender Otto, but Uncle Gaëtan, a descendant of Louis XIV, is a French citizen and ineligible...
...grew unbearably, for His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito had generously entered. His Majesty expressed words of excruciating praise for Vice Admiral Sunagawa's victories at sea. The Vice Admiral was then admitted into the inner chamber, where he had a divine audience with Her Imperial Majesty the Empress. Their Majesties bestowed on Vice Admiral Sunagawa a crested cup and an unmentionably sacred sum of money. The Vice Admiral retired in deep reverence with beads of perspiration on his forehead...
Experienced Empress. Empress Catherine the Great of Russia was born too early to believe that he who controls Alaska may control the Pacific (as Rezanov, founder of the Russian-American Co., believed). When the rich merchants of Siberia pleaded with her to make Alaska a Russian colony, the Empress slapped them down. "England's experience with American colonies," she said dryly, "should be a warning to other nations...
...care. He was frankly critical of their methods and the ships they were building. One of his firm beliefs was the necessity of multiple compartmentation and automatic sliding doors in bulkheads to make ships as unsinkable as was humanly possible. He was deeply impressed by the tragedy of the Empress of Ireland, which had collided with a Norwegian collier in 1914 and with water pouring into her hold had capsized. He thought such accidents need...