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...Ottoman army had guns, the Persians did not; and at the end of that battle in 1514, 25,000 Persian horsemen lay dead. For the Shah, the defeat was particularly humiliating. Though he escaped with his life, he left behind not only his favorite wife, but also his Peacock Throne, covered with so many emeralds, rubies and pearls that no one has ever fixed on the exact total...
Married. Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, Duke of Kent, 25, captain in the Royal Scots Greys, currently eighth in succession to the British throne; and Katharine Worsley, 28, onetime schoolmarm, daughter of a former Yorkshire County cricketer; in York Minster...
...Cassill quotes a quantity of Anderson prose and verse, all of it unimpressive. What makes the novel fascinating, nevertheless, is its curiously romantic assertion of modern literature's most popular legend-that the world is a conspiracy intent on destroying the poet by pulling him from "the Oedipal throne of his loneliness and art." In other times, poets died simply of starvation or of drink or in barroom brawls or at the hands of their mistresses' husbands. Now, if they abide by literary rules, they must succumb to a kind of massive sociological assault...
Fifth in Line. If the prospective father was beaming, the chroniclers of Britain's blueblood lines were cracking their knuckles. The offspring will be fifth in line in succession to the British throne, after Queen Elizabeth's three children and its mother. But since children take title from the father, the child will be born a commoner. The possibility that agitated royalists: Britain's throne might some day be occupied by somebody called Mr. (or Miss) Jones...
...been conquered by Europeans, no bitter memories of colonialism. Some 85% of the farmers own their own small but fertile plots. Young King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 33, whose passion is jazz, not politics, is the great-grandson of King Mongkut of The King and I fame and heir to a throne that dates back 700 years...