Word: khans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reza Shah came from a family of small landholders in Mazanderan Province, rose to be colonel in the Iranian Army. When the decrepit regime of Ahmed Shah tottered after World War I, Reza Khan became successively Commander in Chief of the Iranian Army. Minister of War, Premier, finally Shah of Shahs-all in less than five years...
Englishmen admit that dirty weather won at least half the battle for England when Spain went down with the Armada in 1588. Dirty weather - under the guise of Kamikaze, the Divine Wind - saved Japan from defeat in 1274 when Kubla Khan's invasion boats were smashed to flotsam. Dirty weather postponed and al most disrupted World War II's Dday. In peace or war, weather is important, and these days of air travel reliable weather information is more important than ever before...
...Khan, pumpkin-shaped, 264-lb. spiritual ruler of some twelve million Ismaili Moslems, was the cause of a commotion in diamonds. From London came reports that great quantities of rough-cuts, gifts from his Moslems, were piling up against his forthcoming Diamond Jubilee, when the Khan will be weighed in diamonds. He will keep the stones, and give charity their money equivalent (some...
...weight has long been a fascinating subject to the Khan. Before the war, he used to drop in almost daily at London's Berry Bros, (spirits), weigh himself on their famed century-old scales, and jot down the figure, carefully noting the exact items of apparel included...
...Said the Rev. Francis J. Connell, a professor at the Catholic University of Washington, D.C.: "The use of the atomic bomb was simply murder." ¶ The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of tens of millions of Moslems, declared in Calcutta that he favored the creation of a "supernational state" to regulate bomb production. Barring that, he would feel safest if the U.S. kept the secret to itself...