Word: hadrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no doubt about it. The English are the world's greatest humorists. In "Spring in Park Lane," they have taken a plot as old as Hadrian's Wall which has had all of its intrisic humor drained out over the centuries, and made it into a very funny motion picture...
...church lies well inside the present wall of Jerusalem. But this does not bother the traditionalists, who attribute this wall to the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who ruled from 117 to 138 A.D. The wall enclosing the city at the time of the crucifixion, they say, was built by King Herod, and left Calvary outside...
...black Rock, according to one legend, Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac. Over this Rock stood Solomon's Temple. The Wailing Wall, part of the mosque area, is all of the Jewish Temple that remains. On this rock the Emperor Hadrian built a temple to Jupiter; the Crusaders built a church...
...There has never been, a Hadrian VII-except in "Baron Corvo's" brilliant, perverse novel about an English Pope who chose that title...
...first time since the Papacy's 14th-Century "Babylonian captivity" in France, Italians were in the minority. For the first time, every continent had a cardinal. The next Pope might well be non-Italian-which has not happened since the 1522 conclave chose short-reigned Hadrian VI of Utrecht...