Word: greatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republic, the general had seen to it that as President his would be the right to define France's foreign policy, and his monarchic-type "press conference"-more an audience with an articulate and intellectual head of state-was his chosen forum for doing so. He had a great deal of news to make...
...village wanted to erect a plaque in the churchyard to their distant benefactors, financed by the first $40 from everyone's dividend check. Later they decided that $8 a head should be plenty. Other villagers argued that instead they should rename the village Saturno. "It's a great honor" said one, adding slyly: "And it costs nothing...
Just where the Watutsis came from, whether from Egypt or Ethiopia, no one can say, but as soon as they made their appearance in what was to become Ruanda and Urundi, their great size (average height: 6 ft. 6 in.) froze the hearts of the tribes already living there. The pygmy Mutwas (average height: 4 ft. 6 in.) quickly became their slaves, and the industrious Muhutus (average height: average) gradually settled down into a kind of serfdom. Though only some 550,000 strong, the tall Watutsis dominated a land of 4,600,000. They dressed themselves in fine togas...
Lord Ever Just. Their feudal rule was especially intricate in Ruanda. At the center stood the great Mwami (king), the absolute Lord Ever Just and descendant of Envoys from Heaven. He ruled through a council of wisemen and a college of Biru (jurists), who were the Keepers of the Fire and of the Royal Drum, the symbol of power...
Just as it has for 3,000 years, the miracle of Abu Simbel occurs at break of day. As the sun rises beyond the banks of the Nile, its rays flash like quicksilver into the narrow doorway of the Great Temple, penetrate 180 ft. through halls and passageways dug from the living rock, and burst in splendor in the innermost sanctuary upon the enthroned figures of Egypt's ancient gods. Archaeologist Arthur Weigall pointed out that the temple was cunningly designed for this effect, and he speaks reverently of the hushed moment "when the sun passes above the hills...