Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eligibility Rule...
...rule is adopted by Council, notice will have to be given in advance if a meeting is to be closed, and two-thirds vote of the Council will be necessary...
...whites; with the use of fear and the trickery of a word (apartheid) to gain power-a word which has become an evil symbol throughout the world; with having shown contempt for all decent Christian sentiments in non-white relations . . .; with alienating friendly nations abroad; with . . . violating the rule of law to retain power...
Died. General Sir Reginald Wingate, 91, one of the last of Britain's empire builders who helped establish British rule in the Middle East at the end of the Victorian era; in Dunbar, Scotland. General Wingate (cousin of Major General Charles Orde Wingate, head of "Wingate's Raid ers," who was killed in Burma in World War II) commanded the Egyptian army from...
After his death, no leader of equal stature arose to rule the immense, unwieldy empire. For a time, his grandson, Kublai Khan ruled in self-indulgent splendor over China, a conqueror who had been softened by the pleasures of the conquered. Legend does not exaggerate his luxury. Each of his four wives had a palace with 500 virgins as serving maids and retinues of up to 10,000. Kublai also maintained 10,000 spotlessly white mares for the production of his favorite tipple, fermented mare's milk (kumiss). Twice a year the country was scoured for concubines. Yet Kublai...