Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifty years ago, speakers at the first congress of the Baptist World Alliance pounded the rostrum in London's massive, red brick Royal Albert Hall, predicted that the Alliance's next meeting in London would find the world's 6,000,000 Baptists doubled in number, London's streets less congested, pubs banished and the Church of England separated from the state...
Last week some 9,000 Baptists from 60 countries drove through London's congested streets, past hundreds of pubs and dozens of state-related Anglican churches, back to historic Royal Albert Hall for the first time in 50 years. There, as the Golden Jubilee Congress of the Baptist World Alliance opened, they learned that one prediction had come true beyond all expectations: since 1905, the number of Baptists has soared to more than 20 million, in one of the most phenomenal growths ever experienced by a major denomination...
...application, detailing the glories of his ancestral home, Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. Not counting those with hyphenated names claiming to be direct descendants of William the Conqueror ("If they don't give their background, we don't even answer them") and two who claimed a royal bar sinister, the applicants for the TV job totaled 18, all of them impressively blue-blooded. Vicki was so overwhelmed that at one point she announced: "We may end up by taking back more than one." But last week Vicki and Elliott got themselves in hand and hired just one, the first...
Five years later, Goya returned to Spain. He married the sister of an influential painter named Bayeu, got a commission to design tapestries for the royal weavers. Everyday-life scenes were the assigned subjects which forced Goya to look sharply at the world around him. His tapestries could not be called brilliant, but they record the life of the day with considerable verve. Ordered to make engravings after the Velásquez portraits that hung in the palace galleries, he did a barely creditable job, but the genius of his predecessor was impressed upon...
James Cook was a farmer's son, the sixth or seventh of nine-his mother was never quite sure which. A grocer's apprentice as a boy, he later manned coal barges, enlisted in the Royal Navy and worked his way up, most notably as a cartographer in Wolfe's campaign up the St. Lawrence against Quebec. Cook was 40 when he was chosen to skipper the Endeavour. By London's top scientists, the Fellows of the Royal Society and the Admiralty, he was handed a twofold mission: 1) he was to sail to Tahiti...