Word: xenia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Born in Xenia, Ohio, in 1888, Schlesinger received his A.B. from Ohio State and his Ph.D. from Columbia. He taught at Ohio State and the University of Iowa before coming to Harvard...
...Died. Xenia Alexandrovna, 85, the Grand Duchess Xenia. eldest sister of Russia's last czar. Nicholas II, one of the few members of the Romanov family to escape the brutal murders by the Bolsheviks of Nicholas, his children and relatives in 1918; of pneumonia; at Hampton Court. England. When the Bolsheviks came to power. Britain's King George V sent the dreadnought Marlborough to Yalta to carry the grand duchess and her family to safety in England. Her eldest daughter Irene married Prince Yusupov, who was one of the assassins of Rasputin...