Word: isabella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time he reached Spain, fickle King Ferdinand had veered around again, contrite Queen Isabella was in tears. Columbus appeared at Court bedight with golden robes. His son, Fernando, revealed long afterward that the irons were kept by Columbus "in his closet" for the remainder of his life (six years) and that he ordered them laid beside him in his tomb...
...Constitutional History of the Realms of the Crown of Aragon under Ferdinand and Isabella," Professor Merriman, Emerson...
...share: the King of Portugal gave him some encouragement, but no help; when he came to Spain he was an exhausted beggar, in his late 40's. Said he: "I must beg my bread because Kings will not accept the Empires that I offer them." When Ferdinand and Isabella finally fitted out his little fleet of three boats, the crews had to be made up of criminals and riffraff: no one else would join. The voyage of discovery took more than two months: from Aug. 3 to Oct. 12. The first land sighted was an island called...
Free from duty he will travel in Italy with Lady Isabella Howard, spend his leisure time learning to bind books as a hobby. His greatest contribution to the U. S. was the personal demonstration of attitude which few U. S. statesmen could express and which he best expressed in a speech last year at Princeton : "There is nothing, apart from the ever-important cultivation of the spiritual values, which your country and my country needs so much as the cultivation of esthetic values; not in the foolish and pretentious fashion of the esthetes of the Victorian...
Decorated. Lucrezia Bori, Spanish soprano at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House; with the Royal Order of Isabella la Catolica; by Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S.; for services to art. Last year she was given the order of Alfonso XII, conferred also for artistic distinction...