Word: xvi
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...midst of a social revolution quite as drastic as the rebellion of the French against Louis XVI. It is more important than the war, now that we are no longer fighting for our lives...
...Author. Few of Dumas' novels were more fantastic than his life and ancestry. His father, the mulatto son of one of his grandfather's Santo Domingo slaves, enlisted in King Louis XVI's army as a private. During the Revolution he rose from private to commander in 20 months...
Tussaud's had its beginning in the French Revolution. The original Mme. Tussaud, born Marie Grosholtz of Swiss parents, was an accomplished modeler in wax. She was friend, companion and teacher to Louis XVI's sister and lived at court at Versailles, where she knew the great personages of the period. After the Revolution her realistic waxwork was in great demand. She modeled many of the Terrorists from life, sometimes willingly, sometimes under protest. Once she was forced to reproduce the freshly guillotined head of a Royalist. A Royalist at heart, she watched for a chance to leave...
...Music C New Lect. Hall Philosophy 8 Emerson A Physics D Emerson A Physics 26a (Eng'g. 236a) Mallinckrodt MB 9 Psychology 30 Emerson D Semitic 5a New Lect. Hall Slavic 30 Emerson D Sociology 1 Emerson D 2:15 P.M. Philosophy A Emerson D, 211 THURSDAY, JANUARY 21 (XVI) 9.15 A.M. Economics 121a Emerson 211 English A Dr. Baker, Sec. 14, 25 Memorial Hall Mr. Benzanson, Sec. 28, 35 Memorial Hall Mr. Berryman, Sec. 9, 11 Mr. Burnham, Sec. 21, 23, 29 Memorial Hall Mr. Davis, Sec. 13 Memorial Hall Mr. Eliman, Sec. 26, 32 Memorial Hall Mr. Harrison...
...Saratoga, 1777. General John Burgoyne tried to drive down from Canada in order to join the British commander, Howe, on the Hudson, but was so roughly handled at Bennington and in two engagements near Saratoga, that he capitulated. News of Burgoyne's surrender impressed Louis XVI of France enough to make him sign an alliance with the U.S. Within a few weeks, France and Britain were at war. Total U.S. casualties: 80 killed, 190 wounded...