Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the U.S., which knows him in the beard that he grew for his current stage role, Visitor Ustinov is most familiar as wit and mimic in his appearances on the Jack Paar Show, but he complains: "All those interruptions [for commercials] while you sit there trying to be Voltaire...
A cold wind swept over the thick dark grass outside, whistled through the moonlit Gothic stonework, the parapets, battlements, and pinnacles intricately crowning the buildings with medieval bulk and solemnity.
In medieval Rome, when swords were drawn in factional street fighting, the battle cries of the two most powerful families were "Orsini for the church!" and "Colonna for the people!" For more than a millennium the princely Orsinis have stood firmly beside the Vatican; tradition credits them with five Popes...
This week White announced that he would leave Mills to teach medieval history at the University of California at Los Angeles. "I've been here 15 years," he explained, "and I've begun to find myself quoting myself." If White is quoting himself, other people have been quoting...
Ahasuerus is the usual name ascribed to the man who denied Christ a moment's rest on his way to Calvary. According to medieval legend (but not Christian doctrine), Ahasuerus thereupon was denied-under Christ's curse-either death or mercy, and was condemned to walk the face...