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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since one or two glasses of wine per day suffice temperate Pope Pius XI, Vati can officials quietly arranged to forward much of this year's vinous flood to Rome's hospitals...
...should cover 100 square miles to give elbow room to its two million inhabitants...
...largest square stood throneless King Amanullah and a small ironbound box. Seizing the box firmly, plump Amanullah struggled with the iron hasp. Loudly he grunted, stoutly he tugged. So entertaining was the fat man's performance that though he sweated and wrestled on the platform for two full hours, the entire audience remained. Finally when his most vigorous contortions and loudest grunts began to pall, Amanullah paused, cried aloud to Mohammed for assistance. A final tug, and the box flew open. Perspiring Amanullah held high Mohammed's sacred cloak. Convinced, the Afghan audience prostrated themselves in the dust...
...royal palace at Kabul, Padishah Habibullah, as the muscular Bacha Sakao now calls himself, opened no boxes, neither tugged nor grunted. He, debonair, wears tight kid gloves to show his gentility, brandishes two loaded rifles to show his dexterity, wears plentiful ammunition against emergencies, rules most of Afghanistan...
...adjoining Pacific provinces of Tacna and Arica were captured from Peru and Bolivia by Chile. It was agreed that after ten years a plebiscite would be held wherein the two provinces could de cide to whom they wished to belong. The plebiscite never occurred...