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...made missile is a prodigy of calculation and performance, and Ranger's builders have learned to turn the trick only after profiting from the experience of heartbreaking failures. Their first five shots fizzled. The sixth was on target, but its TV cameras failed to function. Ranger VII did everything right; its radioed photographs may have told little to amateurs, but they made professionals more familiar than ever with the planet they plan to visit. Then came Ranger VIII, and man got his clearest look yet at his closest planetary neighbor...
...Whitehall, past Nelson's monument in Trafalgar Square, by the National Gallery, where the flag hung at half-mast, and into the Strand moved the gun carriage, which had borne the regal corpses of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V and George VI. Along the way the pavements were thronged with silent watchers, and the white topees of Royal Marines dotted the route like snowdrops...
...groom, Richard, Duke of York, was murdered in the Tower of London, along with his brother, King Edward V-according to legend by order of their uncle, who afterwards reigned as Richard III. Many historians believe that it was not Richard "Crouchback," but England's next ruler, Henry VII, who murdered the princes; yet no one knew what had become of York's bride, Anne Mowbray. Last week the London Museum announced that her tiny coffin had been discovered on the site of a medieval nunnery near Westminster, where she died, apparently of natural causes...
...Guns of August, showing shrewd fidelity to its source, begins with film clips that vividly reproduce the opening of Barbara Tuchman's witty and colorful history. The time is May 1910, and a matchless assemblage of European royalty has gathered in London for the funeral of King Edward VII. Striding among the plumes, epaulets and gold braid are Edward's nephew, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, King Albert of Belgium and Austria's ill-fated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, three players already swept up in the genesis of a tragedy to be known as World...
Chaucer visited Italy in the 14th century, and Shakespeare patterned numerous plays on Italian scenarios, but it took the Renaissance's archetypical gentleman, Castiglione, author of The Book of the Courtier, to import the pictorial arts to Britain. A diplomat to Henry VII, he brought as a gift a portrait of St. George by Raphael...