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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dingaan's treachery was soon punished. Later that year, on Dec. 16, 1838, on the banks of Natal's Blood River, another Voortrekker column, headed by Boer Leader Andries Pretorius, bloodily defeated Dingaan's plume-decked, assagai-hurling horde. Of 12,000 Zulus, more than 3,000 perished. The Boers resolved ever after to celebrate Dec. 16 as a day of thanksgiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: On Dingaan's Day | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...blasphemy. In a rousing speech to a women's trade-union group, she cried: "I sometimes think that President Perón has ceased to be a man like other men-that he is rather an ideal incarnate! For this, our movement may cherish him as its one leader without fearing that he will disappear on the unhappy day that Perón personally is missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Beauty of an Ideal | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Soviet genetics to "Stalinist teaching on gradual, concealed, unnoticeable, quantitative changes that result in quick, qualitative, basic changes." He added: "Comrade Stalin is the embodiment of folk wisdom . . . He is the happiness of all the toilers of the world. Glory and long years of life and health to the leader and great teacher of the toilers, the coryphaeus* of science: Comrade Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Teacher of the Toilers | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Original meaning: leader of the chortis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Teacher of the Toilers | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Died. Sem Benelli, 72, Italy's on-again-off-again Fascist poet and playwright (The Jest), a leader with the late Luigi Pirandello in the modern Italian theater, veteran of Mussolini's 1935-36 march on Ethiopia (I Was in Africa); in Genoa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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