Word: sovereignities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...architecture and incense-heavy intrigue to Moscow, which was now more powerful than any other Russian city. She hoped to make it succeed history's two earlier Romes (the one on the Tiber and the one on the Bosporus). Ivan took the title of Czar, i.e., Caesar, and Sovereign of all the Russias. He began to build a strong brick wall around the Kremlin: it still stands today.† Then Moscow was ruled by Ivan IV, called the Terrible, who decisively defeated the Tartars and gave Moscow its first secret police-the blackclad Oprichniki ("extras"), who were mounted...
...when young Dom Pedro, the Portuguese Emperor's son, spurned the imperial decrees from Lisbon, and uttered the words "Independence or Death" that had made Brazil a free nation. The U.S. had stepped forward as the first country to recognize Brazil as a sovereign nation. After Dom Pedro and his son had come (in 1889) the Republic...
...Gromyko: There are 16 sovereign republics [in] voluntary association...
Eugenic Pacelli, Pius XII, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of the City of the Vatican, rises punctually at 6:30 every morning. He throws open the window of his bedroom (on the third floor of the Vatican Palace) looking out on St. Peter's Square, and with hands crossed, prays. His is a busy day, so this first prayer is brief. He turns back...
...prince, the Maharaja of Travancore, has already announced his intention of declaring his independence. His Prime Minister, Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, professed to be scandalized with Nehru's Constituent Assembly resolution declaring that the source of power in sovereign India was the "people." It was well known in Travancore, said Sir C.P., that all powers are derived from the Hindu deity Sri Padmanabha. (Handsome Sir C.P. owes his position in matriarchal Travancore partly to his great administrative ability, partly to the Maharaja's mother, the Dowager Maharani...