Word: throned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that of the Achaemenian dynasty -which ruled ancient Persia for two centuries-are shrouded in the mists of the past. The great bas-reliefs that Darius ordered carved into a cliffside in Behistun, some 150 miles to the north of Susa, for instance, tell of his accession to the throne and his triumph over enemies. But they are too fragmentary to offer a full historical record...
Married. James Edward Lascelles. 19, second son of the Earl of Harewood (the Queen's cousin) and 20th in line of succession to the British throne; and Freddy Duhrssen, 19, American student and member of a Suffolk commune; both for the first time; in Wortham, England. Lascelles, organist for a rock group called the Global Village Trucking Company, and Duhrssen met more than a year ago and, according to the bride, "fell restaurant." in love in a vegetarian...
...rebellion of modern youth ("an explosion of despair"), the art of Marcel Duchamp, Sade's philosophy ("His model is not a volcano, although he liked volcanoes very much, but cold lava"). Paz even notes the first feminist, Penthesilea, legendary queen of the Amazons, who ruled from "a throne of vertigo and tides...
...while ignoring the fact that quite another side of the royal character was expressed in such glorious excesses as the romantic Schloss Neuschwanstein, the rococo Linderhof, and the unfinished imitation of Versailles, Schloss Herrenchiemsee. Ludwig's edifice complex may nearly have bankrupted his kingdom and cost him his throne, but he was, lunatic or not, the last great master builder of the Romantic...
KIRKLAND HOUSE DINING HALL, Throne of Blood...