Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beautiful would be to lie. To say that they were very ugly would also be to lie. They simply were, and we asked no more of them." Warned Fayssat: "We are afflicted in 1961 with the same needs as the old guards of the empire, the musketeers of Louis XIII. the legionnaires of Caesar, and Cro-Magnon man." But the council heartlessly ruled that in the age of indoor plumbing, the vespasienne was outmoded. By 1963. the last one would be razed...
Strolling through his gardens near Pope Leo XIII's former summer residence (now the Vatican radio station), Pope John XXIII came upon the highest point in Vatican City, admired the vista and the ancient Tower of Porta Pertusa. "What a pity," he sighed, as he saw the ramshackle remains of the 60-foot tower. "This is such a lovely place." Within weeks, workmen began restoring the 500-year-old structure, which will be equipped with an elevator for what insiders said would become the Pontiff's summer retreat for meditation and for private audiences with relatives and intimates...
...where he worked most of his life. Philippe de Champaigne moved to Paris from his native Flanders, and a school of naturalists bore the stamp of the Italian Caravaggio. But what the French borrowed they made their own. Under Henri IV (who ruled from 1589 to 1610) and Louis XIII (1610-43), France's artists were free spirits, and they used their freedom well...
...loan of $5,000,000 to the Bolivian government tin corporation. In return, Paz promised to let through a law that would permit Patiño to divorce his first wife, Princess Maria Cristina de Borbón (a niece of Spain's last monarch, Alfonso XIII), and clear up any bigamous misgivings over the status of Patiño's second wife, Beatriz María Julia de Rivera Degeon...
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