Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieut. General S. H. Spoor, had told his troops to cease fire (except for "action against roaming groups and gangs or individuals who try to cause disturbances"). Pale, tired Dutch Prime Minister Willem Drees flew to Batavia, to get Republicans to cooperate in a Dutch-sponsored Indonesian interim government. Queen Juliana promised Indonesia "order, prosperity, freedom, independence and sovereignty in a federal state...
When the Inquisition held full sway over Spain, its agents found (and painstakingly listed) 27 different ways in which the "New Christians" continued to worship in their old faith. In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella published an edict: "There yet remains and is obvious the great harm which has come and still comes to Christians from . . . conversation and communication . . . with the Jews. [They] have made it clear that they would always endeavor by all possible ways and means to ... draw away faithful Christians from our Holy Catholic Church . . . For [this] greatest, most dangerous and most contagious of crimes...
Princess Wilhelmina, who abdicated last September as Queen of The Netherlands, finally got her pension approved by the Dutch parliament, which decided, despite grumbles from a guilder-minded minority, that 400,000 ($151,000) a year was not too much for an ex-queen who had given 50 years' service...
Richard D. Buck '27 will assume the office of Conservator of the Fogg Art Museum after a year's absence as adviser to the National Gallery in London, Provost Buck announced last night. Buck sailed for England on the Queen Mary yesterday...
...also an examination of weather through the ages-of how people dressed to meet it and how they were helped and hindered in doing so by the architecture of their homes and the demands of current fashion (Queen Elizabeth's habit of ripping her stylish, padded blouse open right down to the navel on warm days greatly shocked the French ambassador). All the elements that have influenced human clothing are touched: war, poverty, industrialization, poetry, hero worship, religion, royal mistresses...