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...resurgence, the Moslem world sank into a long intellectual sleep. By the mid-18th century, Karaouine's able scientists had departed, leaving behind an obsolete religious curriculum taught by ulemas (wise men), whose main claim to tenure was their power to vote on succession to the Moroccan throne...
Died. Prince François de France, 25, second son of eleven children of the Count de Paris and thus third in line of succession to the nonexistent throne of France; in a skirmish with Algerian rebels while serving as a second lieutenant with a French army infantry battalion; in Algeria's Kabylia Mountains...
...champion of unwed mothers, she wilfully became one herself at the age of 45, would say only that her child's father, an Italian author, was "an old and dear friend whom I have loved for years." Her final crusade: restoration of Haile Selassie to Ethiopia's throne after the Italian invasion forced him into exile in 1936. After World War II, she and her love child, Richard, settled in Addis Ababa, where her son lectures at University College. Grateful for her long fight in his behalf, the reascendent Emperor rewarded Old Warrior Pankhurst with a singularly appropriate...
Because we don't quite know on sight who is who, we soon begin to lose the threads of the sloppily woven plot. Briefly stated, the opera tells of the rivalry between the princes Khovansky and Golitzin and their attempt to usurp the throne...
...under Cyrus. As soon as he succeeded to his father's throne, the fledgling King whose "close-cropped hair was tawny as a lion's" threw off the yoke of the luxury-loving Medes, but tolerantly let Astyages live out his life in a pleasant alcoholic haze. When fabulously rich Croesus of Lydia rashly decided to march against the upstart, he did so on the ambiguous advice of an oracle: "If you cross the river Halys, you will destroy a great empire." The empire Croesus destroyed was his own. but he too found himself quite content to serve...