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Lady Wu was born a commoner, the daughter of an army officer. At 14, she caught the Emperor's eye and became -a royal concubine. At 24, she seduced the Emperor's successor and became his favorite. The throne was now her goal. To attain it she strangled her own baby, the new Emperor's daughter, and blamed the crime on the reigning Empress. The Empress was deposed; Lady Wu took her place. Within a year she held all the strings of power, manipulated the Emperor like a puppet. On her secret instructions, the former Empress...
Conquered and captured, Cetshwayo was sent to London, possibly for display purposes; but his great dignity, proof against the Western clothing furnished by his captors, won him popular sympathy, and he was restored to his throne. But it was not the same throne he had lost. The British had divided Zululand into 13 ineffectual kingdoms whose impis endlessly clashed for a power no longer there. In 1884, Cetshwayo died mysteriously in his kraal at 53, either of heart trouble or poison-no one bothered to determine which. By 1902, Zululand lay open to peaceful colonization. The new rulers were...
...Gaulle might be permanently located in one money market, Paris for example, and accredited to different governments with the rank of "Permanent Ingot." Since the monetary system would depend on world confidence in his physical existence, he might be placed on a high throne above the squealing money-traders; and, if the amount of money in circulation depended on the General's evaluation of his role in history, there would be an ever-expanding supply of currency...
...death, I admit, there would be a certain inevitable amount of devaluation. And yet, if his body were preserved and embalmed on that high throne, I have no doubt that the exchange rate would recover. The Paris money market--the scene of his greatest triumph--would become his permanent resting place. His spirit would pass from that earthly shell through the veins of the monetary system to all corners of the earth. His very being would animate each franc, each dollar, each ruble, rupee, and drachma. And, long after his death, statesmen would journey to inspect the great French general...
Married. Princess Anne of France, 26, daughter of the Count of Paris, Bourbon pretender to the French throne; and Prince Carlos de Bourbon, 27, man-about-Madrid, her tenth cousin, himself a disputed minor pretender to the Spanish throne; in Dreux, France...