Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House was preparing its announcement, a short (5 ft. 4 in.), chubby man, in sweeping robes and with one loose end of his Hejaz turban flopping rakishly at his shoulder, was standing in the night air, five miles east of the Jordan. Abdullah Ibn-Hussein, King of the Hashimite Kingdom of Transjordan, was watching his Arab Legion assemble. During the day, fierce-faced, khaki-clad soldiers of Transjordan's ist Mechanized Regiment had swirled and stamped, with arms interlocked, in traditional Arab war dances. With the first glimmer of dawn on the day after Israel was born, they began...
...years, the majestic Saguenay River defaulted on its promise. Jacques Cartier was fooled by the Indians' tales of a great kingdom in its valley, and of another empire beyond that, rich in silver & gold, diamonds & rubies. Explorers soon found that this icy, inky tributary of the St. Lawrence was no Northwest Passage: it was navigable for only 80 miles. Above the Indian village of Chicoutimi, "the end of the deep water," the river ran white and turbulent-and, it seemed, useless-from Lake St. John...
When Canadian confederation was agreed upon in 1866, the conferees in London had trouble common to parents everywhere: what to name the baby. Canadians would not take "colony," and Britons vetoed "kingdom." New Brunswick's Sir Leonard Tilley found inspiration in Psalms 72:8-"He shall have dominion also from sea to sea." From that, according to legend and Lady Tilley, the Dominion of Canada got its name...
...Europe, but the defeat of Italy's Communists had queued them up in longer lines than ever. Last week, for the first time since last fall, the Queen Elizabeth left New York City packed to the rails. This summer some 100,000 U.S. tourists will visit the United Kingdom and Eire; twice as many hope to go to the Continent...
...such delusions were and always will be, says Toynbee, a morsel of truth is often hidden in them. This morsel is recognizable to men who, first, think of their national welfare in terms of a civilized inheritance, and second, think of the world itself as "a province of the Kingdom of God." In his view, it is, for example, of minor importance that the old apartment house of Western Europe has recently collapsed: what matters is that Christendom has found a newer, physically stronger home on the North American continent...