Word: pontus
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...Such curiosa as the propaganda distributed at the Paris peace conference by the delegate from Pontus on the Euxine Sea, who requested the restoration of the kingdom of Mithridates the Great, destroyed by Julius Caesar in 47 B.C.; the rare official Italian inquiry into the Caporetto disaster; the unpublished memoirs of Haile Selassie...
...Pléiade, or Brigade as it was first called: a literary constellation including also Poets Du Bellay, Boif, Belleau, Pontus de Thiard, Dorat, and Dramatist Jodelle. Ronsard "launched" the group in 1549 with a literary critique urging a return to the classics...