Word: queens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth of this statement cannot be exaggerated. We can trace its reflection back to ancient figures such as Laban and Haman, or instead contemplate more recent oppressors such as Queen Isabella of Spain, Catherine the Great of Russia and Adolf Hitler...
...America's gallery of tragedians with A Thousand Acres, a punishingly dark look at sexual abuse that brought King Lear into the American heartland, she comes up with a 414-page campus satire that culminates in the encounter of a 700-lb. runaway hog and a former Pork Queen of Warren County, Iowa...
...Though Queen Elizabeth officially appoints Church leaders, Prime Minister John Major actually approves them...
Before she turned nine years old, a pretty Texas girl named Selena Quintanilla Perez was already singing at roadhouse dance halls and weddings, purveying a bright, up-tempo version of traditional Mexican-American border music. A little more than a decade later, she was the Grammy-winning queen of the booming "Tejano" music market, playing to crowds of 60,000 and selling more than 1.5 million records in the U.S. and Mexico. "Never in my dreams would I have thought that I would become this big," she told TIME in a recent interview. "I am still freaking...
...high heel goes way, way back. Sixteenth-century Turkey witnessed the birth of the stiletto heel's earliest ancestor, the chopine, a wooden clog that could reach stilt height. Later, a more narrowly heeled shoe for women emerged during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. And in the eighteenth century, the French began their fashion influence with lovely decorated leather or silk shoes on high heels set under the arch of the foot...