Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During all his 55 years on the throne-the longest reign of any living monarch -it sometimes seemed as if King Sisavang Vong of Laos had found a way to survive history simply by ignoring it. He never openly fought for independence from the French, but instead of earning the resentment of his people, he won only greater affection. When the French urged him to take a firmer stand against the Japanese in World War II, he patiently explained: "My people do not know how to fight; they only know how to sing and make love." Later he proved equally...
Laotian solidarity, he also practiced it. He had 25 wives (though only the Queen was called wife), and the number of his children was reckoned from the official 38 to a less official 100. Once, Novelist W. Somerset Maugham wrote about his royal neighbor on the Riviera: "Whenever the King is in his residence, which is a pretty villa next to mine, there always seem to be at least 70 people staying with him-all of them children...
Sardis was a vital area in the ancient world. The fame and grandeur of the city in ancient times was enormous. During the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., the Lydian empire grew, and, under King Croesus, reached its peak around 550. The source of the legendary wealth of Lydia was the enormous gold deposits (the present expedition hopes to discover their exact location). In 540, the Persians conquered the city and Croesus, the "millionaire-king" whose memory is still honored in the phrase "rich as Croesus", died...
...impact of a college upon its students, says Stanley H. King, associate director of research at the Health Services, "has never received the full study it deserves." "We are not interested in the abnormal person, but in the average college student, and in the changes he undergoes during four years...
Away with Coffins. Spiraling ramps are not new in architecture. Assyrian King Sargon II wound a 6-ft. ramp around his 143-ft-tall Ziggurat at Khorsabad back in 706 B.C. What Wright did was avail himself of reinforced-concrete shell techniques to stand the structure on its narrower end, cantilever the floors inward, and top off the structure with glass, a material no ancient architect had to use on such a scale...