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...13th Century, the Petit Châtelet stood on the left bank of the Seine. Its grey twin towers made at once a gate to the city, a fortress, and a prison for thieves and political offenders. Old as was the Petit Châtelet, its winding subterranean crypts and dungeons were even older, and included a portion of a long forgotten secret tunnel under the Seine built when 9th Century Paris was besieged by fierce red-haired Norman pirates. The Petit Châtelet was pulled down in a popular uprising just before the Revolution, its more obvious cellars...
...afternoon the federal left wing reached the town. Street fighting commenced. The railway station, which had become a veritable fortress with sandbags and machine guns, was captured. At the height of the battle federal cavalry was sent to cut the railway north of Jiminez and prevent the rebels escaping. A lucky shot by a federal bombing plane exploded an ammunition train behind the town. The rebels, believing themselves surrounded, fled. Jiminez was captured...
...Aboard the nearly completed Europa fire broke out simultaneously at four points, deep in the 'tween decks. Every precaution had been taken against such a conflagration. For months the great shipyard of Blohm & Voss at Hamburg, where the Bremen and Europa lay, had been guarded like a military fortress. No one-not even STIMMING himself-was allowed to enter without showing an elaborately documented pass. Certainly Herr Direktor Karl Stimming of the North German Lloyd-a man of such arresting reticence that he keeps even his first name out of the German Who's Who, and is known...
...open secret," said Octavio Seigle, fingering a neat butterfly tie, "that opponents of the government who disappear from Havana are taken to the Cabana fortress next to Morro Castle, and fed to the man-eating sharks of the harbor...
Among other earnings were: Parke, Davis & Co., ("Building the fortress of health" since 1875) report net income of $8,208,874. Previous year...