Word: imperiale
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On her 21st birthday - it was only five years ago-a British Princess faced a microphone in South Africa and in a clear girlish voice made a solemn promise to her father's subjects all over the world. " declare before you all," she said, "that my whole life, whether...
Anne (1702-1714), the younger sister of Mary, had the good fortune to rule in the era of one of Winston Churchill's ancestors, the Duke of Marlborough, whose victories made England the strongest power in the world. A skilled diplomat as well as a great soldier, Marlborough led...
Founded in the heyday of British imperial expansion by a British innkeeper from Calthorpe in Norfolk, Shepheard's was a sprawling, 350-room structure built in 1891, a curious mixture of Moorish and Western in design, in the heart of Cairo's European district. Newsmen and businessmen, actors...
After a quiet celebration of the royal 18th birthday, the Imperial Palace in Tokyo released a picture of Prince Akihito for the public to see. Taken by the palace photographer, it showed a dashing young man on horseback taking his pet jumper Wakazakura over some high hurdles.
In spite of all his business activities-his oil wells, his real estate sales (Los Angeles' famed Miracle Mile was once his), his 4,000-acre farm, and the tiny Santa Maria Valley Railroad that he bought-the captain never let one of his hobbies lag. "Keep moving," he...