Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Century palace. It vanished during World War II, sometime after Nazi troops took it from St. Petersburg to Konigsburg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). While the German government claimed the wall panels were destroyed during the1945 Soviet invasion of Konigsburg, Russian officials charged that Bonn had hidden the treasure. While the fate of the rest of the room remains unknown, this small portion apparently was stolen by a German truck driver in the convoy transporting pieces of the room to Konigsburg. The 22-by-28 inch gold-framed amber mosaic depicting two couples in a lush garden hung for years...
...editorials in this week's newspapers will no doubt wax poetic on the meaning of Deep Blue's victory and what it portends for the sorry fate of modern man. The work of our hands has conquered us, they will say; our own successes will yet come back to haunt and destroy us. Human genius will be eulogized as nothing more than a complicated algorithm that was waiting to be decoded...
Foremost in the minds of Harvard's players on Monday was the necessity of avoiding the fate of Princeton and Penn. Without a win in Monday's doubleheader opener, the Crimson would have been in a must-win situation in the second game if it was to avoid a one-game play-off with the Bulldogs...
More than 60 students, Faculty and community members gathered in Hauser Hall to hear Harbury recount her 32-day hunger strike in Guatemala City in October 1994. Harbury staged the hunger strike to pressure the Guatemalan government to reveal the fate of her husband, Efrain Bamaca "Everardo" Velasquez...
...meeting, which took place in one of the center's playrooms, those concerned with the fate of the center mingled among the toys scattered across the floor while children played underfoot...