Word: xv
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Feather on a Head. What is architecture? It was, said Le Corbusier in his book, something that went far beyond style. "The styles of Louis XIV, XV, XVI, or Gothic, are to architecture what a feather is on a woman's head." Essentially, architecture was the "masterly, correct, and magnificent placing of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light. Cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage...
...12th century error inserted a nonexistent John XV into the reign of John XIV (983-984). This error was compounded by 1) the inclusion of Antipope John XVI (997-998) in the legitimate succession, and 2) the fact that no John XV ever existed. According to these calculations, the present Pope John XXIII is really John...
...carats in all, and to duplicate it today would cost $3,855,500-including, Historian Mossiker notes helpfully, the 10% federal excise tax. This grotesque ornament was invented by the crown jewelers to tempt Madame du Barry, who would probably have bought it if her protector, the goatish Louis XV, had not died of smallpox before the diamonds could be assembled. Antoinette, the new Queen, then seemed the ideal purchaser: her husband had the money, and she, possessing a 43½-inch bust, could set off 647 diamonds properly. But the Queen, exercising restraint for perhaps the only time...
...January 25 VI MWF 1 January 31 VII MWF 2 January 24 VIII MWF 3 January 21 IX MWF 4 January 21 X TTS 8 January 26 XI TTS 9 January 28 XII TTS 10 February 1 XIII TTS 11 January 20 XIV TTS 12 January 24 XV TTS 1 January 26 XVI TTS 2 January 26 XVII TTS 3 January 31 XVIII TTS 4 January...
...from his twelve-year retirement at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, Canard hailed him as Christopher Colombey, and celebrated his crusading zeal by calling him "Charles d'Arc." But lately Le Canard has taken to picturing De Gaulle with a crown and wearing the robes of Charlemagne or Louis XV ("Aprés le déluge, moi!"). As the Sun King himself, De Gaulle is shown crying: "Bread! Next, they'll be asking for cars and washing machines...