Word: royalities
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Through countless performances, popular recordings and television appearances James Galway has come to be known as one of the most beloved performers in the world. His training is unparalled: he studied at the Royal College of Music, the Paris Conservatoire and with acclaimed flutist Marcel Moyse. His repertoire stretches across all categories of music, from Bach sonatas to progressive jazz to folk songs of his native Ireland...
...Protestants agreed not to stage a march through a Catholic neighborhood. The Apprentice Boys Order, whose marches last year incited several days of Catholic violence, announced that they would avoid Lower Ormeau Road during its Easter Monday parade. The announcement had a strong element of spin: "Assuming the Royal Ulster Constabulary will not allow us to parade our traditional route on Easter Monday, especially with the escalation of violence at the present time, it would be wrong of us to provide another excuse for confrontation," the group's statement read. The announcement was warmly greeted by the Catholic residents...
...movement was launched by a celebrated 1973 case of a doctor who helped her mother die and was then acquitted of criminal charges. That year the Dutch Voluntary Euthanasia Society, NVVE, was founded, and today its 88,000 members carry "euthanasia passports" and lobby for more liberalization. The Dutch Royal Society of Medicine endorsed guidelines in 1984, and today's de facto decriminalization represents a compromise between euthanasia foes and advocates of full legalization. Periodic controversies roil the debate. In 1994, for instance, the Dutch TV station IKON's filming of the death by euthanasia of a man with...
...Romans were known for their Vestal Virgins, six female virgins who represented the royal house and tended the state cult of Vesta, the goddess of hearth. Violation of their virginity meant being buried alive. With the advent of Christianity, the Virgin Mary became one of the central characters of the religion. Then in the Middle Ages, medieval gynecologists were interested in determining female virginity, while male virginity was consistently overlooked. Even in the colonial period, Queen Elizabeth was heralded as the virtuous and Virgin Queen and the state of Virginia was named in celebration of this fact. Thus, our view...
...children. In this story, the youngest of seven princesses is blessed at her christening by many good fairies with the gifts of intelligence, faithfulness and a good heart. But the last fairy blesses her to be ordinary-looking. And so when the princess grows up, no one remembers her royal qualities because she looks ordinary and plain...