Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Married. Isabel Bigley, 25, Broadway musicomedy star (Me and Juliet, Guys and Dolls); and Lawrence Barnett, 39, a vice president of Music Corp. of America, top U.S. musical talent agency; he for the second time, she for the first; in Norwalk, Conn...
...Isabel won the eternal devotion of her people on a sunny Sunday afternoon, May 13, 1888, when with a gold pen set with diamonds and emeralds she signed the shortest law in Brazil's history. It read: "As of this date, slavery in Brazil is declared extinct." It was a great triumph for the plump, fair-haired young princess, then acting as regent for her absent father, Emperor Dom Pedro II. In ten days, after she had reformed the cabinet, she pushed the emancipation bill through the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Commoners and courtiers joined in celebration...
...Isabel's humanitarian act, bitterly opposed by conservative coffee and sugar planters, soon brought on a disastrous economic crisis. Crops rotted in the fields as freed slaves abandoned the fazendas. Within a year the crowded cities faced famine, and the army deposed the royal family. Princess Isabel died at her husband's chateau in France...
...rose of solid gold awarded her by Pope Leo II after she had signed the Golden Law. For three days Brazilians of all colors, free men all, passed in mournful procession. Said the rector of the University of Brazil: "Greater than the empire she lost was her title, Isabel the Redemptress...
...Portuguese royal family, fleeing Napoleon's army, moved to Brazil, their biggest and richest colony. After the French had been driven out, King Joāo returned to Portugal, leaving Crown Prince Pedro (Isabel's grandfather), as regent. Rising nationalism persuaded the prince to declare Brazil independent and himself its Emperor Dom Pedro...