Word: roi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will soon be tested with electronic tapes-flight recordings of rockets fired from Cape Canaveral down the South Atlantic range. Played over and over again, the tapes will provide plenty of practice in "intercepting" intercontinental missiles. Then there will be tests against comparatively small rockets lobbed toward Kwajalein from Roi-Namur island about 50 miles away...
...royal wedding. Some in the marching crowds cried "Vive la République!" interspersed with chorus after chorus of the Marseillaise, which in Belgium has a distinctly revolutionary, antimonarchical flavor. Baudouin and bride heard none of this as they stepped out of the plane at the airport. "Vive le Roi! Vive la Reine!" cried the small welcoming delegation. Then, under heavy escort, their limousine bore the royal couple through the riot-torn city to the palace...
Seven hundred years ago, according to tradition, the King of France-later St. Louis-walked 17 miles from Nogent-le-Roi to help dedicate the great new church in the town of Chartres. Built on a hill above a windy plain, pointing the tiny town beneath it to heaven with its spires, the new church was the seventh to rise upon the sacred spot-sacred to the Druids for its shrine to the mysterious "Virgin Who Shall Bear a Son," sacred later to the Christians as a place of prayer built by Saints Potentian and Albin. Before King Louis...
Then came the age of the Roi Soleil, whose grandiloquent tastes did not run to the simple beauty of Georges de La Tour. In time, De La Tour's name disappeared completely-not only from France, but from all of Europe-and it was not until 1915 that two of his paintings were formally identified by the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin. Since World War II his popularity has soared-but even today only about 20 of his paintings are known to exist...
...limousine, grabbed the King's sword from beside him, and flourished it above his head before the police could move in and pommel him away. Later, as the King entered the new parliamentary chamber, where Ghanaians in togas mingled with bemedaled Western ambassadors, the Belgians shouted, "Vive le Roi!" The Congolese Assemblymen, preferring to cheer the new nation's first President, replied with, "Vive Kasavubu...