Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
According to the Kölnische Zeitung, the clergy of Antwerp were compelled to ring the church bells when the fortress was taken...
...lost or remodeled. Palestine, in those bleak centuries, was a European province. Leading crusaders lived luxuriously and busily. When the Mohammedans finally drove them out, their goods were abandoned. Looters could not find them all. Hence the Metropolitan Museum's delvers made rich cultural finds at the isolated fortress of Montfort, old headquarters of the Hospitalers of Our Lady of the Teutons. By further Palestinian exploration, the museum hopes to develop a complete series of armor, something that does not yet exist...