Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The tone was contrite. The words were conciliatory. The old imperial arrogance was gone. "Your revolutionary message has been heard," said Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. "I am aware of everything you have given your lives for. I commit myself to make up for past mistakes, to fight corruption and injustice...
Still to be settled, however, were strikes by 400,000 schoolteachers and the Iran Air employees. The airline walkout stranded some 20,000 devout Muslims headed for Mecca on the annual hajj (pilgrimage). A plea by religious leaders failed to get the workers back on the job to enable the...
Swathed in a velvet train, with the imperial crown carefully balanced on her coiffed brown hair, Queen Elizabeth II opened the final session of Parliament before her subjects vote again in a general election. In one of Britain's better pageants, the Queen spoke from a golden throne in...
Authorities said 25 anti-government protesters were killed and at least 56 injured in clashes with troops or supporters of the Shah, Iran's imperial ruler.
Insignificant as the question may seem, it has puzzled entomologists for years. Are the protuberances weapons? Are they decorations for attracting the opposite sex? Indeed, do they serve any purpose at all? Timothy Palmer, a young scientist at Britain's Imperial College Field Station, outside London, decided to settle...