Word: goth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Years ago Pir of Pagaro got angry at a boy favorite, Ibrahim, of his court at Pir-Jo-Goth. Pir had Ibrahim's eyelashes and eyebrows plucked out, his face blackened with soot, and padlocked him in a box which was opened only when he was fed. Ibrahim escaped, only to be hunted with hounds and imprisoned again in a smaller box. Finally three concubines told the police about Ibrahim. The found him in his box, "looking like a ghost, pale as death, and smelling like a polecat...
...Forest and ended Roman efforts to conquer Germany. Later on the Romans built an early Maginot Line, Limes Germanicus, between the Rhine and the Danube. But the Ro mans made the mistake of recruiting Germans for their legions, and the leader of one of these fifth columns, Odovacar the Goth, overthrew the Roman Empire...
Birthday. The late Robert Louis Stevenson; his goth; observed by Annie H. Ide Cockran, widow of Tammany Orator Bourke Cockran. Stevenson formally deeded it to her when she was a little girl because she was "born out of all reason on Christmas day" and hence "denied the consolation and profit of a proper birthday." She celebrated in Manhattan in the manner stipulated by the legatee-"by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats and receipt of gifts, compliments and copies of verses according to the manner of our ancestors...