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...eleven more highnesses than there are square miles in the minuscule principality. Luckily for the postal system, only a dozen Von und zu Liechtensteins actually live in Liechtenstein. Indeed, it was not until 1937 that a hereditary ruler actually made his home in the drafty, 13th century family fortress, whose battlements rise starkly above the capital of Vaduz (pronounced Vah-dootz). There last week, amid eulogies and thunderous renditions of Heil Liechtenstein, Franz Josef II Maria Aloys Alfred Karl Johannes Heinrich Michael Georg Ignatius Benediktus Gerhardus Majella, its twelfth reigning prince, observed his 57th birthday and the 25th anniversary...
...Hotel de la Cite is set inside the medieval fortress city of Carcassonne, accessible both to the French Riviera and the Spanish Costa Brava. Built 120 years ago on the ruins of the former episcopal palace, it has 70 rooms ranging in price from $6 to $15 a day, including tax, service and breakfast...
Enough? With that, Alabama was breached as the last state fortress of total school segregation. Attorney General Kennedy's tactics, to which he applied all his shrewd, tough abilities for detail-by-detail planning, had worked. But was that enough? Was it in any substantive sense a settlement to the Negro revolution? The answers could only...
...those 662 members of the Class of 1913 who registered at Harvard on September 20, 1909, the College must have seemed a fortress of security against the omens of changing times. Life at Harvard was a gentleman's game. One could live in the Gold Coast, eat leisurely on the white table cloths of Memorial Hall, and join any of a multitude of final clubs. Radcliffe had not yet invaded the College, and only a few intinerant professors had the pleasure of competing with 'Cliffies on an intellectual level...
...their wars and forswear headhunting. When they protested that their enemies' heads were needed to propitiate the gods, the rajah ordered his English civil servants to stockpile mummified leftovers from previous wars and to lend them out to the villagers as needed. From his handsome riverside fortress in Kuching, he brought modest prosperity to the kingdom by exploiting its oil and rubber resources as well as diamonds, birds' nests (for Chinese gourmets) and gutta-percha (for golf balls). In 1941, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Brooke raj, Sir Charles gave his people a constitution and set them...