Word: kingdome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Portugese navigator Diego Cao discovered the mouth of the Congo River, went ashore, and made envoys to the largest kingdom of West Central Africa: the Kongo. Relations with the Kongolese were friendly at first, and the African lords permitted the Portugese to gain a foothold for their slave trading with colonies across the Atlantic. But soon the Kongolese came to have misgivings about the Portugese designs, and open warfare broke out. In 1665 the Portugese Army crushed the Kongolese army in a decisive battle at Mbwila...
...fresh. George Wallace teases, holding his big gun for last. Then he brings it out and blasts away at what has become his favorite target: busing. "I'm in tune with you," he shouts. "This busin' is callous and asinine. We're busin' children to kingdom come. But that busin' is gonna come to an end in this country when you elect me." The crowds go wild...
...long detour is part of the price that Jordan is paying for King Hussein's suppression and summary expulsion last summer of Palestinian guerrillas who were doing more damage to his kingdom than they were to Israel. Ever since, Jordan has been virtually blockaded by its Arab neighbors. Syria and Iraq barred Jordanian planes from their airspace, and Jordanian farmers have had to dump crops because they were barred from their usual markets in those countries. Shipment of phosphate, Jordan's principal export, was barred by Syria. As a result, Turkey now buys phosphate from Israel. Imported goods...
GEORGE WALLACE. Far and away the most colorful candidate, he knows how to communicate with a certain kind of Southern folk. When the feisty little Governor furrows his brow and talks about "welfare loafers," "foreign hottentots," "busing to kingdom come" and candidates "doing the St. Virus's dance," he usually gets the guffaws he seeks. And not just in the South, either. Wallace fancies himself a national candidate with appeal to the population in many Northern states, like Indiana and Wisconsin. His youthful, photogenic wife Cornelia has even given his candidacy a patina of glamour. Nothing fancy 'bout...
...philosopher may have been doing a bit of both. His story placed Atlantis out beyond the "pillars of Hercules" (the Strait of Gibraltar). The mighty island kingdom, he related, sank beneath the sea 9,000 years before his time. But the specific details and descriptions that Plato gives indicate events that modern science shows to have occurred in and around Santorini at the height of the Age of Bronze. They fit everything that is known concerning the final bloom and tragic end of what Archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans arbitrarily labeled "Minoan" civilization. "Minoan" and "Atlantean" may well have been...