Word: ix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party visited I Corps headquarters, where MacArthur was briefed on tactical details of the offensive; he also toured I and IX Corps sectors and visited 24th Division headquarters...
Winston Churchill was off to Denmark to be the palace guest of King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid, and pick up an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen...
Help from the King. Completely state-financed and controlled, the Royal Ballet has also had a little artistic help from 51-year-old King Frederik IX, an ardent and accomplished musician. Solo Dancer Ralov in particular could thank him for one of his successes. When Ralov first danced the role of Gennaro in Auguste Bournonville's Napoli, Frederik, then Crown Prince, came backstage and asked him if he would like some pointers. Frederik had seen Hans Beck, a famed Danish dancer, the role years before, and had spent hours in a practice room with Ralov, coaching him on what...
...still making news. The question of a U.S. diplomatic representative at the Vatican first came up in 1779, when John Adams wrote the Continental Congress that he hoped it would "never send a minister to His Holiness," nor receive a Roman Catholic nuncio in the U.S. But when Pius IX was elected Pope in 1846, his reputation for liberalism made U.S. Protestants so enthusiastic that the event was celebrated with nondenominational mass meetings in New York and Philadelphia...
...honeymoon. The music-loving king (he sold five songs to a Broadway musical show now in rehearsal) lifted a nine-tiered crown onto his head as army & navy guns fired 101 salutes and the temple bells of every monastery in his kingdom rang seven times. He thus became Rama IX, King of Siam...