Word: rebellions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dutch have experienced fewer revolts in The Indies than the British have in India, it is largely because the natives of the Indies are by & large more indolent. Besides, the fact that they are split among more than 150 different races and languages tends to make widespread rebellion next to impossible...
Nazis Nervous? While the Czech rebellion was being crushed, underground reports from Germany proper suggested some Nazi nervousness lest a revolution or coup d'etat be attempted by Germans to secure a new Government-possibly monarchist-with which Great Britain and France would be willing to make a quick peace on favorable terms. Scions of the Habsburg and Metternich houses were mentioned as the object of active German intrigue and Adolf Hitler was said to have summoned former German Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm for a conference at the Chancellery which became highly emotional...
...other respects, Benjamin arrived in New Orleans with $4 after being mysteriously kicked out of Yale in his third year, quickly rose to be one of the most successful lawyers of his day, a Senator, holder of three Cabinet posts, Davis' confidant. Called "the Mephistopheles of the Rebellion," connected with many a shady deal in speculation and filibustering, Benjamin boasted that no letter of his would be found when he died. Only a few were. Yet he was thought charming by Mrs. Chestnut, "that tart memorialist of Southern statesmen," who declared that "the Confederacy has been done to death...
...first novel, is modeled exactly on traditional Chinese novels. Almost 100 characters crowd its 815 close-print pages; it is written with almost Basic English simplicity. Crammed with incident, but plotless, Moment in Peking chronicles the history of three wealthy middle-class Chinese families, from the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, when its heroine, ten-year-old Mulan, is kidnapped by soldiers, to New Year's, 1938, when she joins the epic flight of 40,000,000 high-spirited refugees into China's vast interior...
...Elizabeth rewards him with a majestic slap in front of the delighted court. It seems he should have brought back the Spanish bullion ships intact. In Ireland, where he gets himself sent, Essex is defeated when court enemies intercept his pleas for aid. He returns to start a little rebellion of his own. Though Elizabeth loves Essex, she loves her throne more, prudently chops off his head...