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Especially because of your review of the first volume of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, I feel obliged to point out that the Bicentennial of American independence will also be the 1,500th anniversary of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West in 476. A better coincidence you couldn't find...
...magnetism. He is an anomaly in other ways. Though he leads the largest proletarian party in the West, his fragile hands have rarely been callused by any implement rougher than a sailboat's tiller. The descendant of an aristocratic, landowning Sardinian family, he is married to a practicing Roman Catholic but is an atheist himself...
...church-state struggle, four knights assassinated Thomas a Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170, believing (with some reason) that Henry II wanted his former friend eliminated. The Reformation brought with it assassination as an instrument of religion, if not foreign policy, especially in the struggle between Roman Catholics and Huguenots in France. Before his accession to the throne, Henry III helped his mother, Catherine de Medicis, plot the assassination of Admiral Coligny and other Huguenot leaders. He himself was assassinated in 1589 by a monk; his successor, Henry of Navarre, a Huguenot who later became a Catholic, was murdered...
...department too. Guccione has paid more than $1 million in cash for the 40-room Manhattan mansion that once belonged to Financier Jeremiah Milbank, and he is preparing to spend another $1 million or so to have it "all redone in Italian Renaissance, very classical and simple." Besides a Roman-bath swimming pool and quarters for nine live-in servants, Guccione's digs will also feature accommodations for visiting Penthouse pets, but with some differences from Hefner's 74-room Bunny Hutch in Chicago. "In Hefner's place, the girls live in dormitories and they pay rent...
...natural ornament of any smart set. She is charming, mercurial and regal, a Grimm heroine who has all of Europe wondering what she will do next, and hoping against hope that she will only settle for Prince Charles. (She will not, because the Prince of Wales cannot marry a Roman Catholic.) Just now, Caroline is studying at Paris' elite Institut d'Etudes Politiques, and she is strictly chaperoned by Grace. "Take one look at the girl. Can you blame her?" asks a sympathetic friend. Caroline fairly smolders whenever she gets the chance, earning admiring appraisals from Parisians...