Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late 1870s, the ruling Kabaka welcomed the Anglican and Catholic missionaries who followed Explorer Henry Morton Stanley. But after the old king's death, the ruler's dissolute heir did not; the young man resented the fact that his Christian pages refused his homosexual advances. Finally, egged on by a jealous Prime Minister, the Kabaka determined to crush the new religion, and in one bloody, 15-month period, beginning in 1885, ordered the murders or executions of 22 Catholics and at least 23 Anglicans. Paul declared the Catholic martyrs saints...
Sour Tips. Quite a few investors protest too much. "I'm wiped out, man," says Larry Thomas, 26, an Atlanta insurance agent. In fact, he has a profit. The computer stock that he bought at 12 on a tip from a friend now sells at about 141, and his $9,600 initial investment is worth around $11,600. That, however, is less than one-third of the $37,600 he counted on paper last spring, when the stock briefly touched...
Following a Whirlwind. The fact that Budge considered leaving the SEC just five months after becoming its head tended to confirm an impression in Washington that he is not overenthusiastic about his current post. He succeeded Manuel Cohen, a whirlwind policymaker who had greatly speeded the pace and expanded the variety of SEC regulatory activities. "Judge" Budge, a former Idaho Republican Congressman and state district judge who served as one of the SEC commissioners for more than four years, is quite different. He is likely to put off a study of an important question for a month or so until...
...modest reckoning, his investigation generated two major discoveries. One was archaeology's first clue to the sacramental significance of the figures. After a careful survey of the slopes of Rano-Raraku volcano, where 193 modi are still standing (83 have fallen), Maziere was intrigued by the fact that each giant faces in a slightly different direction. Then an old islander informed him that "each modi looks at a part of the world over which he has power and for which he is answerable." The old name of the island, he reminded Maziere, was Te Pito Te Henua-The Navel...
...Research? Back in France, the narrative that Maziere created out of his far-flung findings has become an astonishing bestseller (some 230,000 copies). But Maziere drew the rage and scorn of some experts who accused him of everything from gross over-popularization to out-and-out plagiarism. In fact, it is clear upon examination of the texts that Maziere has clearly borrowed large chunks, word for word, from Father Englert...