Word: imperiale
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Britain's Suez Canal base is less a fortress than a giant imperial department store, crammed to its barbed-wire extremities with jets, fieldpieces, trucks, tanks, uniforms and the 10,000 other requirements of a modern army. The world's largest military depot, it can take 250,000...
For centuries, dreamers as disparate In time and temperament as Rome's Emperor Augustus and Sweden's Author-Doctor Axel Munthe found Italy's idyllic Isle of Capri a perfect spot in which to get away from it all. Augustus' misanthropic successor Tiberius found the island...
Half a century had passed since the white men first sounded the warning. "This Pidgin nonsense," cried the globetrotting Baron von Hesse-Wartegg,-should be replaced "by a sensible German language." But in spite of the baron-and all the efforts of imperial German officials -the natives of the New...
As the Brazilian cruiser Almirante Barroso nosed past Sugar Loaf into Guanabara Bay last week, jet planes circled in the sky and shore batteries roared a royal 21-gun salute. On the cruiser's fantail, beneath the old imperial colors,* lay two oak coffins. They contained the remains of...
Said the London Economist last week: "The Rhodes Scholarships were supposed to be an empirical part of [Rhodes's] imperial dream. Instead, they are playing a complex and important role in a very different kind of imperialism: that extended by an ancient civilization to lands often more powerful than...