Word: napoleons
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...Knights of Malta are historically men of privilege and resiliency. After their emergence during the 12th century as a crusading order of warrior-clerics, they built up strong dynasties in Palestine, Rhodes and Malta successively; it took Napoleon's army to end their temporal dominion in 1798. For the last century and a half, they have devoted themselves to works of charity. Although most of them are now laymen, the highest degree of the Knights, as always, has been bound by religious vows, and membership in the order, for all except the lowest category, has been restricted...
There is a roomful of drawings and water colors by Ingres which has been called "incomparable." David is represented by a large diagrammatic study for "The Oath of the Tennis Court" and by preliminary sketches for the scene of the crowning of the Empress Josephine by Napoleon in December...
...When she was born," said Winston Churchill, "Napoleon III ruled France, and Palmerston had only recently ceased to be Prime Minister of this country . . . Yet she lived into this atomic age, through two fearful wars which cast almost all the thrones of Europe to the ground . . . but also transformed the world...
...made possible, in part, by the defection of hundreds of Stalin-hating Russian generals and the surrender of 4,000,000 peasant soldiers. But other millions of Russian soldiers held out, and so did Stalin's luck: General Winter stepped in, as he had 130 years before, when Napoleon was in Moscow...
Died. Philip H. Rosenbach, 89, bachelor bibliophile and president of the Rosenbach Co. (Philadelphia, New York), world's largest dealer in rare books and manuscripts; in Beverly Hills, Calif. While colorful younger brother Abraham S. W. Rosenbach, the late "Napoleon of Books," paid spectacular sums for first editions, Philip was called the "Invader" for his own worldwide literary sleuthing...