Word: kingdoms
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...letter signed by local noblemen in 1320 demanding independence for Scotland. (The document is said to have inspired America's own Declaration of Independence). The dominant political party in Arbroath is the Scottish National Party (SNP), a left-leaning party that wishes to declare independence from the United Kingdom by disbanding the 1707 Act of Union between England and Scotland...
...Ortega, however, is still exploring whether his embrace of the Church, and his wife's supplemental beliefs, will bring his people any closer to the new earthly kingdom he promised. In Nicaragua, as he would have it, the book of Daniel is still being written...
...Daniel of the Old Testament prophesied a new earthly kingdom, but was thrown into a den of lions as punishment for his faith. No fate so dramatic awaits his Nicaraguan namesake President Daniel Ortega, although the controversial Sandinista leader is convinced the lions are circling...
...Wasilla, Palin hoped to ban certain books from the town library. For Palin, the belief that the Judeo-Christian God created the universe is one worth exposing to young people in science class, all while those same tender minds are protected from the notion that there exists a magical kingdom called Terabithia...
...summer's heroes included some surprises, too. Iron Man, a new franchise built around a lesser-known Marvel Comics character and a lead actor, Robert Downey Jr., whose indie-heavy resume didn't suggest he'd lure the masses, managed to take in $317.5 million. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the film most prognosticators expected to whip into first place, came in third with a respectable though not earth-shattering $315 million. Another summer sure thing - Will Smith in the superhero movie Hancock - made $226 million, a hit by most actors' standards but not the stratospheric...