Word: orientale
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"I can't imagine what sort of reception my husband will get in your country," said Liaquat Ali Khan's wife last week. "Americans will probably think he is Rita Hayworth's brother-in-law or perhaps a distant cousin of the Shah of Iran." Liaquat Ali...
Concentrators must study both of the two basic Oriental languages, but some of the country's finest courses in Far Eastern culture and history serve as a kicker in this field. If this is your idea of a good time, you have your choice of either the old or the...
The chosen envoy was William Pitt Amherst, Earl of Arakan and nephew of famed soldier of the King, Lord Jeffrey Amherst. In July 1816, William Amherst reached the North China coast. He was most hopeful, as his secretary later recorded, that "the eclat of an embassy from the Crown of...
Once they asked the ambassador to kowtow before the figure of a dragon; the imperial emblem. This struck the Occidentals as an Oriental trick that would somehow signify their subservience. Amherst offered to do so if a mandarin of equal rank would genuflect before a portrait of the British sovereign...
Are all the spies in Bangkok lodged, as rumor says, in the Oriental Hotel? Mai ben rai.