Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice she broadcast: "These rings, symbols of our first joys, symbols of our extreme renunciation now, make the purest offering to our country. With them we invoke before God victory for the young sons of Italy who defend rights which are sacred. We pray for the triumph of Roman civilization in Africa...
...Majesty at last gave the straight-armed Fascist salute, originally the Roman salute of the Caesars. After returning it the multitude of women began to file past the urn, dropping in gold rings all morning, all afternoon, well into the night. By this time Rome, with a population of approximately 1,000,000, had given some 250,000 gold rings, the day's total for all Italy being computed later as worth $80,000,000. Among the wives was the Dictator's. Millions of Italian women, unlike their Queen, reacted first to their new iron rings...
...Caesar's mother lived for several years after he was born. The operation obtained its name from the fact that the Roman law required this procedure in case of the mother's death; the laws under the emperors became Caesarean laws, and the operation the Caesarean operation." JOHN M. SIEGEL...
...onetime Secretary of the Interior, convicted bribe-taker, grandson of a co-founder of the Disciples of Christ (Camp-bellites). was visited by priests, baptized a Roman Catholic...
...cross and the smaller chalice were immensely valuable, possibly 4th Century work. When he saw the Great Chalice he felt like Parsifal. Boiled down, his arguments in behalf of its historic worth are as follows: ¶ The decoration of the outer cup corresponds remarkably with other authenticated ist Century Roman pieces. ¶ The earliest known reproductions of the Eucharist, in the 3rd and 4th Centuries, give it exactly the form of this cup. Christians in 75 A. D. were already numerous but very poor. The outer cup must have cost a great deal of money which would only be spent...