Word: kingdome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old institute gives elderly people interested in continuing their education after retirement an opportunity to learn and even teach in a variety of classes, as far ranging as Exploring the Kingdom of the Fungi, Welfare Politics in an Election Year, Religion Throughout the World and Legal Issues-Constitutional and Otherwise...
...several bottles of South African wine for the papal entourage and settled back to discuss the latest developments in southern Africa. While he and the Pope chatted, government officials hastily arranged for a motorcade to take the papal party on the 300-mile journey to Lesotho, a black-ruled kingdom entirely surrounded by South Africa. "We consider it a privilege to assist the Holy Father," said an obviously elated Botha. "We are known for our hospitality...
MASERU, Lesotho--Guerrillas hijacked a bus yesterday carrying 60 nuns, schoolgirls and other people traveling to see Pope John Paul II, who was expected in this tiny mountain kingdom, diplomats and sources said...
...last stop before the city of St. Andrews in the kingdom of Fife is the east coast and Muirfield, the most elegant estate on the Firth of Forth. No trees, no burns (creeks), 165 sand traps. It is raining sideways, and one of the caddies is a matron named Heather, who replies in confusion to every profane mention of the stuff. Keep a grip on the club, get a grip on yourself. The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers goes back to 1744 and leather golf balls filled with boiled feathers. But the club still hasn't got around to building...
...Lear, the young players are joined by William Hutt, 68, perhaps Canada's most distinguished stage actor, in what may be the performance of his career. His king is no autocrat but a dotard whose authority has long been a polite fiction. His plans for dividing the kingdom are a surprise to no one; his daughters' resistance to his extravagant wanderings are no meanness but utter common sense in the face of senility; the brutality they eventually show is brought on by invasion and civil war, both instigated by their holier-than- thou sister. Hutt superbly manages Lear's transition...