Word: maria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...covered by the moon at Cambridge, the eclipse will be total in the western part of Massachusetts, and Professor Shapley plans to travel to an observatory there or in eastern New York state. Other members of the Observatory, including assistant Professor Edward S. King will probably go to the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket Island, where the eclipse will also be total...
...music of Massenet she postured and sang, while a lovelorn monk pursued her. What should a monk have to do with so great, so good a lady? Ah, he was trying to save her soul from hellfire, for in the play she was not good at all. She was Maria Jeritza (Baroness Von Popper) pretending to be Thais (famed harlot) at the season's first performance of the opera of that name. Now it is not difficult for a courtesan to pretend to be a great lady. The best courtesans are said to give a certain number of hours...
...intends to travel first to Belgrade, capital of Yugo-Slavia, where there are no princesses, but where he may meet Rumanian Queen Marie's youngest progeny -Princess Ileana who, however, is not yet 16 years old. Thence he will go to Rome where Princesses Mafalda, Giovanna and Maria grace their royal father's court. Unfortunately, the affections of Princess Mafalda (aged 22) are reported elsewhere engaged, while Princess Giovanna is but 17 and Princess Maria is just turned ten. From the Eternal City, the Bulgarian Monarch will travel to Paris, where is a fair sprinkling of comely princesses...
...bull charged. That matador took a single deliberate step aside. The bull hammered past. Into his path again stepped the matador. He danced, he mocked, he swung his scarlet cloak. But this bull was a thief, as they say; he "knew Latin." Drumming hoofs, a broken shout, a thud. "Maria. He is dead!" gasped the onlookers. So ended the last bullfight of Ignacio Zuloaga*, famed Spanish painter...
...17th day of May in the year 1886, the sun rose to kiss the orange trees; and men rose with the joyous feelings born of spring. Not much later in the day, an event which put the sun in an unnatural eclipse was announced: The Dowager Queen Maria had given birth to a son, six months after the death of her husband. No longer was little Maria Queen; Alfonso XIII, a baby not yet in swaddling clothes, had in theory become King from the minute of his birth. Madrid was burned to a cinder in a great fire of enthusiasm...