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...like him." Last week and thousands of other individualists in ironclad Republican Maine proceeded collectively to do the politically inconceivable: they elected a Democratic governor (for the first time since 1934). The winner by a resounding 22,000 votes over Republican Incumbent Burton Cross: Waterville Lawyer Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 40, in whose grey-blue eyes shines a light last seen in the early days of the New Deal...
...bridal veil that had once belonged to the Empress Maria Theresa, 26-year-old Princess Regina of Saxe -Meiningen - Hildburghausen walked slowly up the aisle under an arch of crossed swords, to take her place beside pale, 38-year-old Franz Joseph Otto Robert Marie Anthony Charles Maximilian Henry Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Louis Cajetanus Pius Ignatius, Emperor (by theoretical title) of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia and Jerusalem, Margrave of Moravia, Grand Voivode of Serbia, Duke of Lorraine and Auschwitz, Lord of Trieste, etc., etc. On the pretender's shoulders lay the jewel-studded collar of the Golden...
...yielded to Mars for a consideration. In 1490 a city vicar reported to the Vatican that Rome's prostitutes numbered more than "6,800, not even counting those who live in concubinage and those who, not publicly but in secret, maintain five or six women in their houses." Sixtus V (1585-90) wanted to abolish prostitution, but he was dissuaded by Rome's aldermen, who argued that expulsion of all the city's prostitutes and pimps would cut the population clean in half...
...full complement of cardinals is 70, a figure set in 1586 by Pope Sixtus V to correspond with the 70 elders of Moses...
Depleted College. The Sacred College of Cardinals now has only 42 members, the fewest in a century. Full strength is 70, the number set in 1586 by Pope Sixtus V to commemorate the 70 elders of Moses. But there are always at least half a dozen "vacant hats" so that when a Pope dies his successor may make some immediate appointments...