Word: rome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Greek sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a woman called May Elias Mansur, a known terrorist, flew on the TWA Boeing 727 from Cairo to Athens Wednesday morning. The plane went on to Rome, and the bomb exploded during its return flight from Rome to Athens Wednesday afternoon...
Seven other people, including four Americans, were injured aboard the Boeing 727--Flight 840 from Rome--which landed safely in Athens 10 minutes later, a gaping hole in its side, officials reported...
...Pontiff chose the theme of life and death for his traditional Easter message, "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city of Rome and the world), saying Easter testifies that "God does not resign himself to man's death...
Helena Shultz, her head covered with a black mantilla, stood in a front row next to Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti, who met with Shultz in Rome Saturday. The U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, William Wilson, was at Shultz's side...
...genius for transforming loot into colossally vulgar display, ostentation on an imperial scale. The Emperor Elagabalus, it is said, ordered his slaves to bring him 10,000 lbs. of cobwebs. When they finished the task, Elagabalus observed, "From this, one can understand how great a city is Rome." Louis XIV of France wore a diamond-covered coat that, at the turn of the 18th century, was worth a dazzling 14 million francs: the Sun King got up in the splendors of Liberace...