Word: rome
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...nature of empires to confuse victory in battle with a mandate for unending dominion and to find out the hard way that the two are different. Hannibal was unable to translate triumph at Cannae into final victory over Rome; Napoleon, with all of Europe at his feet, disastrously marched the Grand Army into Russia. A little more than a year after the British slaughtered 11,000 Sudanese at the Battle of Omdurman while losing only 48 of their own men, they were on the run from the artillery and rifles of the Boers...
...plot; Cody Banks is a wan recycling of Spy Kids with a 007 fixation. The Bynes and Duff movie vehicles are more nakedly retro. What a Girl Wants is based on the '50s Sandra Dee bauble The Reluctant Debutante, while The Lizzie McGuire Movie could be Gidget Goes to Rome with an updated pop score. Both put their budding stars in glamorous foreign capitals (London and Rome), where they addle the locals with a sturdy detergent called American charm...
...early life of Dorothy Day, saintly founder of the Catholic Worker movement. The wild young Day studied Emma Goldman's anarchism. She interviewed Leon Trotsky. She had an abortion. She climbed into bed with the dead-drunk Eugene O'Neill to keep him warm until he fell asleep. Now Rome is seriously considering her for canonization...
Keefe’s love affair was in a way consummated on October 6 of last year, when the man who made his life’s work possible was declared a saint by Pope John Paul II. Keefe traveled with friends from Elmbrook to Rome to witness the canonization...
...letter to Nevile Lees in March 1917, Craig instructs her on what to prepare for a clandestine visit to his house in Rome, writing, “dine first–dine well and have a good bottle of vino for the sake of me—capito...