Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pirates. "What sort of people are they," asks the Times, "the oldest of the Old Powers, the youngest-indeed the unborn-of the Newest Powers, starting to challenge Fate again?" There are, it believes, "one or two obvious facts" about themselves which the British tend to ignore: "their ruthlessness, for example. The English in America exterminated one race, the Red Indians, almost completely, and imported another race, the Negroes, as slaves, on whom they inflicted unspeakable brutalities. The English in Australia carried extermination even further ... a good deal of it by the simple use of arsenic, though there were other...
...Nizam's powers were shorn, his ministers were under house arrest, but he would probably salvage his wealth and royal trappings. Kasim Razvi faced a dimmer fate. In a broadcast to his followers on the morning of surrender he said: "This is the last time I shall be speaking to you." Then he disappeared. The next day he was captured by Hyderabad troops. Said he: "I gambled and lost...
...they were without revolutionary leaders, but they had one great unifying purpose-freedom from Red tyranny. Momentously, the weight and voice of the German masses was coming into play in the battle between East and West. There was enough mass power in the Berlin throng to change the fate of Europe...
...Russians had taken prisoner in Bessarabia. Ana went to Moscow, where she found that her husband Marcel had got himself into Trotzkyite trouble; he was shot (according to one version) in a telephone booth. Some say that Ana gave evidence against him. Without flinching over Marcel's fate, Ana became a member of the Comintern Executive. She was one of the signatories of the protocol "dissolving" the Third International. One day at a meeting she attracted the attention of Andrei Vishinsky for her brisk delivery of a report. Vishinsky took her to see Stalin...
Ferdinand got the support of Russia's Nicholas II, after Stambolov had been conveniently hacked to death by an assassin. He promoted himself from prince to czar, later sealed his own regal fate by choosing Wilhelm's side in World War I. In 1918 he stole out of Sofia, leaving his throne to his son Boris...