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...many Spaniards, the term Protestant has been made to stand for something shameful and dangerous. A pamphlet recently published by a Catholic organization, with the Church's imprimatur, denned Protestantism as a "means invented by a monk named Luther to marry a nun" and as a "diabolical sect invented by the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestant in Spain | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...young Queen of France was bored. "I thought to have married a king," Eleanor of Aquitaine complained to her intimates, "but find I have wed a monk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Greatest Frenchwoman | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

Chin and Kachin guerrillas. But in the Irrawaddy valley and along the Rangoon-Mandalay railway line, it has made more progress in the past month than in the previous year. Prime Minister Thakin Nu has said that as soon as Bur,ma is pacified he will become a Buddhist monk. He may possibly have his wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Sunshine Over Moonshine | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...engagement. Though under continual heavy water bombardment, the CRIMSON succeeded in overwhelming St. George and his supporters. Umpires declared the CRIME victor in the maneuvers: 23-2. Both forces are still feeling the effects of the battle. USS THEM Jones, J.p lympton St. War Admiral, c hoo, Choo Train Monk, ocC lem Desperate Norman, ab olitionist Foooo, k Young Storey, jm B. T. Storey Mauretania, ss R. C. Storey Farb Barf Norman M. Hinerfeld '51 lf W. Pistol

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gag Mag Lags, Rag Bags Wags: 23-2 | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

When she became dissatisfied with her first husband, Louis VII, ("I thought to have married a king, but I find I have wed a monk"), Eleanor divorced him. Adding the Plantagenet tag to the Capet one she already possessed, she married Henry II of England, twelve years her junior. Her sons were Richard the Lion-Hearted and John Lackland...

Author: By Jerome Goodman, | Title: Queen of Two Nations | 4/26/1950 | See Source »

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