Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made certain that Tupou IV could keep up his strength. From all over the kingdom's 150 islands, they flocked in outrigger canoes and launches to the week-long ceremonies at the capital of Nuku'alofa, bringing baskets of mutton, lobsters, crabs and other delicacies for His Royal Highness. More than 3,000 pigs were roasted whole for the coronation-day dinner. Thirty huge turtles taken from pens outside the King's palace went into the royal soup. The Duke and Duchess of Kent, and Governor John A. Burns of Hawaii representing President Johnson, were among...
Hundreds of boats sounded a salute, and dock cranes dipped in tribute as Sir Francis Chichester, waylaid the past month by a duodenal ulcer, at last sailed Gipsy Moth IV up the Thames to the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, where he was formally knighted by Queen Elizabeth with Sir Francis Drake's sword. Later, the solo circumnavigator rode a white Rolls-Royce convertible through London's financial district to the cheers of 250,000 fellow Britons. "You personify the spirit of initiative, adventure and determination," London's Lord Mayor told Chichester at the official city reception...
...city since November of 1918, when, as the six-year-old Crown Prince Otto of Austria-Hungary, he was bundled off to exile. Now Dr. Otto Habsburg, 54, of Pocking, West Germany, he has long since renounced his nonexistent throne, denied any claim he might have had to the royal palaces and grounds, and declined even to live in Austria. Nevertheless, Austria's royally spooked Socialists still heard the clanking of imperial chains. "He doesn't leave any doubt about his intentions," cried Vienna's daily Arbeiter Zeitung. "He allows himself to be photographed in front...
Flight test. Intrigued by his son's observation, Jensen passed it on to Ramskou, who immediately recognized its scientific implication. Enlisting the aid of Denmark's royal-court jeweler, the archaeologist collected minerals found in Scandinavia whose molecules are all aligned parallel to each other, just as the crystals are in a Polaroid filter. Ramskou found that one of these minerals, a transparent crystal called cordierite, turned from yellow to dark blue whenever its natural molecular alignment was held at right angles to the plane of polarized light from the sun. Thus, he reasoned, a Viking could have...
...long afterwards, a counselor to Louis XV wrote admiringly that "La Tour is becoming the portraitist a la mode." Louis summoned La Tour to Versailles, where he limned the monarch's handsome features, as well as those of the royal family and Madame de Pompadour. Other commissions naturally followed. Along with other prominent painters of the day, he was soon awarded quarters in the Louvre, which then served as a royally endowed artists' colony. In 1750 Louis named him official court painter...