Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany's place in the alliance is now so well accepted that the world little noted that this was the first time such a NATO meeting had been held on German soil. Arriving at the airport, U.S. Secretary of State Dulles referred to it: "Two years ago a sovereign, democratic and peace-loving German state, arisen from the ashes of war, joined this organization. Now we meet on German soil to counsel together on how to advance further that common welfare...
...Bactrian steeds, by legend so mettlesome that they literally sweated blood. The artist who most magnificently portrayed them was the painter Han Kan. Summoned to court by T'ang Emperor Ming Huang, Han was ordered to study the paintings of one of the court painters, took the "Illustrious Sovereign" aback by replying: "My masters are all in Your Majesty's stables." The results of Han's study of the Emperor's 40,000 horses can be seen in his Cowherd (opposite), a painting that for countless generations has epitomized for the Chinese the essential nature...
Morocco has been French only since 1912. Before that, for eleven centuries, it had been a free and sovereign state since the time when a dissident leader of the all-conquering Arabs declared his independence of faraway Baghdad in the 8th century. For centuries, rulers alternated between Arab dynasties and the indigenous Berbers. The empire waxed and waned but was never conquered. While medieval Europe fought and languished, the university of Fez gathered scholars from all over the known world. The Moorish empire reached into Spain, building aqueducts, huge irrigation systems, and the great Alhambra at Granada. The present Sultan...
...Catholics, with U.S. papers echoing both sides. Pierce again became an Episcopal rector (after a brief dalliance with a sect prophesying the imminent Second Coming), and led the fight against Rome, firing off pamphlets informing readers that a "Roman Catholic may any day have the duty of shooting his sovereign imposed on him" and that celibacy was a "myth without basis in Catholic dogma or fact...
...treaty signed in 1827, the government of Canada and its sovereign recognized the perpetual right of the Chippewa Indians to occupy their reserve on the banks of the St. Clair River, not far from Detroit, in what later became the city of Sarnia. Last week, in one of the biggest real estate deals ever closed in Canada, the Chippewas sold 2,768 acres of their ancestral domain to New England Industries of New York. Price...