Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall guarantee every citizen full political liberty and establish complete liberty of the press. We shall discuss stabilization of the currency and negotiate a foreign loan. We shall revise the present obnoxious anti-foreign mining law passed by [the late] Prime Minister Jon Bratiano in 1924, as well as other laws which have made Rumania a most unpopular country abroad. We shall abolish restrictions on foreign capital, which henceforth shall have the same opportunities as local capital...
...predecessor, the present Dowager Empress Sadako, was the first consort of a Japanese Emperor to have her own "throne." She did not, howevet, occupy it when her husband, Emperor Yoshihito, was enthroned in 1915 because she was enceinte. Yoshihito Tenno, although greatly beloved, developed an impediment of the mind which caused his son (the present Tenno) to be made Regent in 1921, for Yoshihito who died...
...Near present Hebron, the American School of Archaeology has found Kirjath Sepher, which the Israelites captured in the time of Joshua. Interesting are the remains of a wool-dyeing factory, a small household altar of Samuel's time...
Alexander the Great conquered the Near East and in the present Syrian hinterland founded a military colony, Europos. This was about 300 B.C. The next century the Parthians conquered the place; then, in the next, the Romans. The name became Dura. About the time of Jesus, the Romans retreated and desert sands quickly covered buildings. In 1920 British soldiers accidentally discovered Dura. Word went to the late Gertrude Bell. She sent a call to Professor James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago, who was at Luxor, Egypt, his headquarters for Egyptian research. He sped to Dura, hastily made photographs...
...late Madame Marie Jeanne Becu Du Barry, mistress of France's King Louis XV, had several beds. The most famed is to be put on the auction block, along with other antiques, in Paris, on Dec. 6, by the present owner, Comtesse de Segur (Cécile Sorel), actress of the Comédie-Française...