Word: monarch
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...years in the making, "1776, the British Story of the American Revolution" traces events from just before the Stamp Act was imposed, in 1764, to George Ill's gracious acceptance of credentials from John Adams, the fledgling nation's first minister to London, in 1785. Fittingly, the monarch's words on that occasion ("Let the circumstances of language, religion and blood have their natural and full effect") were tape-recorded for the show by his great-great-great-great-great-grandson, Prince Charles...
...George, be a king!" his mother commanded him, and no one can say that George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, has not done his best. The first English-born monarch since Queen Anne died more than 60 years ago, George proudly proclaimed in his first speech from the throne that he "gloried in the name of Briton."* Yet paradoxically, his patriotism, combined with the dogmatic, unyielding temperament he has shown since childhood, has torn apart the British Empire he inherited 16 years...
Both Vergennes and Beaumarchais have faced the steady opposition of the new monarch, Louis XVI, who inclines toward pacifism, and of former Finance Minister Anne Robert Turgot, who maintains that France's Treasury cannot afford a possible conflict with Britain and that the American Colonies will eventually win their freedom anyway. Vergennes, however, has never forgiven Britain for stripping France of most of its colonies after the French and Indian War. He sees the American Rebellion as a means of getting back at Britain, that "rapacious, unjust and faithless enemy...
...feasible goal for any people. Man may be created equal, even as the Declaration avers, but he soon creates his own inequalities as he strives for power. In a state of absolute liberty, the strong man will always be more equal than the weak man. By curbing liberties, a monarch, ironically, may be expanding equality, protecting the weak against the strong and ensuring that both have their time in the sun. Perhaps the greatest peril to the future of the American experiment is that contending groups, properly encouraged to strive for their selfinterest, will do so with such heedless vehemence...
...flooded paddy. That might seem plebeian labor for an emperor, but Hirohito of Japan, 75, has always shown deep sympathy for the farming millions of his subjects, and made it a royal duty to take a personal part in opening the rice-planting season. Come fall, the monarch will return to the same paddy in the imperial palace compound and harvest a crop of about 300 lbs., part of it destined for the Ise Grand Shrines as an offering to the sun goddess Amaterasu...