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Where were the court astronomers? On this day in ancient China, some two millenniums before Christ, a monster was seen devouring the sun. While people rushed about madly and beat drums to scare off the celestial demon, Court Astronomers Hsi and Ho were found drunk. To punish them for being "sunk in wine and excess" instead of tending to business on a dire occasion, they had their heads...
...Isles." But while Germany gained a theory it lost a favorite old slogan: "Gott strafe England!" The argument: "If God, on whom the Germans called in vain 25 years ago was really capable of exercising such a measure of punitive power, He would not have waited till 1940 to punish the British," stated the paper. "In those days the Germans relied too much on the power of higher justice and too little on the holy wrath of the nation fighting for its existence...
...smack him around for years to make a man of him, Frederick II built up Prussia into a first-class European power. He became "the Great" by daring to take on, with backing only from England, the combined forces of Austria, France, Russia, Sweden and Saxony who wished to punish him for his rape of Silesia...
...Sultan of Brunei to give him an East Indian kingdom in 1841, the Brookes have been a strong ruling dynasty. Sir Charles (grandnephew of Jamie) modestly records in the British Who's Who that he has "led several expeditions into the far interior of the country to punish headhunters" and "understands the management of natives." But Sir Charles sired three daughters, no sons...
From 1915 to 1917, he was on the Bessarabian and Rumanian fronts. After the March Revolution in Russia, Disciplinarian Mannerheim began to have trouble with his younger officers, tried to punish them for insubordination, was overruled by the General Staff. No democrat, but an officer who had been close to the Tsar, he was in a ticklish position. Conveniently developing a sprained foot, he left the front on a doctor's orders, was met" in Odessa by a telegram relieving him of his command. On Dec. 6, 1917, the Finnish Diet declared that region's independence from Russia...