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...Lombardy? The terrain will then favor us on all sides, and we will make any attackers pay a hideous price. Think it over. We do not ask for much-only that we, ourselves, be permitted to live out our lives in dignity and comfort, as Napoleon did at St. Helena. You may do what you will with Germany. Think it over...
...onetime King-Emperor who had ruled over a domain on which the sun never sets could not be very happy ruling 29 islets, 661 cays and 2,387 sandspits. In public, however, he was always correct. Only in private did he say "This Elba!" and she echo "This St. Helena...
Trier was founded, as Augusta Treverorum, in 14 B.C. by the Emperor Augustus, became the chief city of the Gallic tribe of Treveri. Because of its strategic location, Diocletian made Augusta Treverorum an important provincial capital. Constantine the Great beautified it. His mother, Empress Saint Helena, presented it with the "Holy Coat" or Seamless Tunic of Christ, which remains to this day the chief treasure of Trier's 4th Century cathedral. On the other hand, Trier is also the birthplace of Karl Marx. The Nazis set up a printing establishment in his house, then Allied bombs destroyed...
...America's Navy in World War II (The New Republic's reviewer called it "as fine a piece of current history as I have ever read"). No armchair admiral, he knows sea warfare firsthand-steamed up to Jap-held Vella Lavella to help rescue the cruiser Helena's survivors after the Battle of Kula Gulf - was one of the first five white men to reach Munda airport (he got there 24 hours before our troops marched in) -and in the first raid on Marcus Island he saw three new fighting tools first tested in battle: the Essex...
...Bishop of Davenport, Iowa: Monsignor Ralph Leo Hayes, onetime Bishop of Helena. Mont., later rector of Rome's North American College (theological school for U.S. priests) until its closing...