Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...string of titles - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of Turkey, Caliph of Islam, Prince of the Faithful, Master of the World and Custodian of the Cities of Mecca and Medina - but he was better known during his reign (1876-1909) as Abdul the Damned. He squatted within a triple-walled palace at Constantinople, amassed women (four wives, 233 concubines) and wealth ($112,000,000 in jewels, millions more in oilfields and other jiftlik, or crown lands). In 1920, after he and his sick empire had died, his numerous heirs began one of the most fantastic inheritance suits of all time...
...reign of Yü in China, so the legend goes, a man named I Ti found out how to make wine. The discovery was ' important enough to show the Emperor's daughter; with small cries of delight, she took it straight to the throne of her father Yü. The Emperor sipped, narrowed his eyes, and poured the wine on the ground saying, "The day will come when this thing will cost someone a kingdom...
...cold, rainy morning in the reign of Mary Tudor, an official barge swept up to the landing stage of the Tower of London. Out stepped 20-year-old Elizabeth, Queen Mary's red-haired half-sister, who had just been arrested on suspicion of treason. At sight of the terrible Tower, where her luckless mother, Queen Anne Boleyn, had lost her head, the Lady Elizabeth's legs sank under her, and she fell weeping on the wet stones. Then she pulled herself together and walked into the prison with her head held high...
...Djayabhaya, the Hindu king who ruled a vast Javanese empire eight centuries ago, it was written that a white man would come one day to Indonesia. He would stay to rule the islands many years. Then, for the three-year "life of a hen," a yellow man would reign. And after those three years, the people would govern themselves...
...Seesaw. Sumner Welles's doctrine of nonintervention and mutual consultation on hemispheric problems was the heart of the Good Neighbor policy. During his long reign as Under Secretary of State (1937-1943), he did very little for democracy within Latin American nations, but he did a great deal for democracy between them...