Word: ferdinand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DIED. FERDINAND PORSCHE, 88, who helped his father engineer the Volkswagen Beetle (at Hitler's behest) and later created the wildly popular and profitable German sports car that bears his name; in Zell am See, Austria...
...Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella funded Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World. In return, some 500 years later, we repay them with Cokes, Big Macs and Pamela...
...Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination in Sarajevo precipitates World...
Tomorrow morning, millions of Englishmen will be anguishing over manager Glenn Hoddle's preference to Matt Le Tissier in his starting line-up over Paul Merson or Les Ferdinand; thousands of Chelsea fans will be torn between club and country on account of Gianfranco Zola's well-taken strike...
Every uprising knows its demons on a first-name basis. The French railed at Louis and Marie Antoinette; the Russians at Nicholas and Alexandra; the Filipinos at Ferdinand and Imelda; the Romanians at Nicolae and Elena. Now, in Serbia, the targets are Slobo and Mira, the nicknames of President Slobodan Milosevic and his wife Mirjana Markovic. So renowned is the President's wife--never call her the First Lady to her face--that she is being pilloried in her own right by the protesters in Belgrade...