Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find it a bit oldfashioned. The general layout recalls Khorsabad, which the Assyrian Sargon dedicated in 706 B.C., and Persepolis, which Darius I founded two centuries later. There also, low, oblong buildings with enclosed courts were grouped in the shadow of an imposing terrace topped by a temple, a throne room and a palace, or, in our parlance, a chapel, an administration building and a social hall...
...window came a shout: "What is it you want? Tell me what you want," cried the sexagenarian Imam who, in his fringed turbans and silken robes, bears a striking resemblance to Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. When the soldiers called back that it was time he got off the throne, he dodged back, reappeared with a Tommy gun. But they told him the game was up, the country and the Council of Elders were with them. Suddenly, the old man agreed to abdicate, but demanded that his son Badr succeed him. No, replied Colonel Thalaya, he had another candidate...
Born. To Princess Josephine Charlotte, 27, sister of King Baudouin of Belgium, and Prince Jean, 34, heir apparent to the throne now occupied by his mother, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg: their second child, first son; in Betzdorf Castle, Luxembourg. Name: Henri. Weight...
...camera. The story opens in a geisha house, where lies "the bored baron" (Utaemon Ichikawa), the D'Artagnan of Japanese fiction, too bored even to bother with the dish that has been laid before him-and it isn't sukiyaki. Enter a messenger: a pretender to the throne has appeared. Is he or is he not the emperor's true son and heir? The baron will find out-or will he? Boinnng! A knife sprouts in a post beside his head. Swish! Thirty assassins, black-robed like torturers in medieval Europe, jump out of the rhododendrons...
Workshop of Phidias. At Olympia in the Peloponnesus, site of the original Olympic games, stood one of the most magnificent spectacles of the classical world. The great statue of Zeus by Phidias was almost 40 ft. high, and it showed the god sitting benignly on a golden throne. His face and chest were ivory, and his garment was of beaten gold. Everybody in Greece who claimed to be anybody went to admire the statue and came away ecstatic, and many writers described it, but modern scholars are not sure exactly what it looked like. No bit of it has survived...