Word: vi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week at a royal pitso in Maseru, capital of South Africa's craggy, mountainous Basutoland, Victoria's great-grandson George VI celebrated Moshoeshoe Day (Moshesh's anniversary) by pinning medals on the dazzling, crocodile-and-lion-adorned blankets of a host...
...Cyrenaica and Winchester, the one-eyed soldier who did not always see eye-to-eye with his Labor Government bosses in London, or with Indian leaders. In his place would be handsome, 46-year-old "Dickie" Mountbatten (Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma), second cousin of King George VI...
Carder-Bresson began as a painter, and still paints for fun, but at 38 he is primarily a historian. Spain's Civil War, the people of Mexico, Manhattan's "Little Italy," the coronation of England's George VI, Paris, and the littered banks of the Marne on a prewar Sunday have all been seized in the enduring glimpses of his camera's glass...
...Blanket & the King. Karsh likes to highlight his sitters against simple settings, often an old grey army blanket pinned against the wall. When he photographed King George VI in London, the Buckingham Palace backgrounds were too ornate to set off the King's gold-braided admiral's uniform. Out came the old blanket, and His Majesty helped to hang it in place...
...popes had to be dropped: one (Donus II) never existed; two (the supposed third & fifth Popes Cletus and Anacletus) were the same man. But three new popes had been found: Boniface VI (for a few days in 896), and, possibly, Discorus (for 22 days in 530) and Leo VIII (from 963 to 965). In the case of no fewer than 74 popes, changes had to be made in such matters as their names and dates...