Word: xvi
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...worked. Medallions of his fur-capped head were struck, engravings were hung in homes, and his likeness graced snuffboxes and signet rings. The fad went so far as to mildly annoy, though still amuse, King Louis XVI himself. He gave a lady of his court, who had bored him often with her praise of Franklin, a Sevres porcelain chamber pot with Franklin's cameo embossed inside. Neither the King nor his ministers were instinctive champions of America's desire, which they correctly feared might prove contagious, to cast off hereditary monarchs. But the combination of Franklin's realist and idealist...
What Franklin modestly described as his "electrical amusements" made him the world's most famous scientist. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant called him the "new Prometheus." Most important, Franklin's fame helped open French hearts--and purse strings--when years later he came calling at Louis XVI's court on behalf of his embattled young nation. As the French financier Turgot would say of the kite flyer from Philadelphia, "He snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants...
...little as $6. Thirty-three years later, an Illinois man ate a $100 bill as part of a ticket contest. Now that's inflation... Eight of the top 15 rated television shows of all-time are Super Bowls, as are all of the top 20 sporting events. Super Bowl XVI between the 49ers and Bengals drew a 49.1 rating, the highest ever for a live event... Dan Reeves holds the record for most Super Bowl appearances, nine, as a player and coach... Matt Millen is the only player to win championship rings with three different teams ? the Raiders...
Just before Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were deposed by the French Revolution, a woman named Jeanne de la Motte-Valois engaged in a historically murky, slightly incomprehensible plot to peddle an elaborate and hugely expensive necklace to the Queen and keep the profits, even though she did not own the jewelry. When she was placed on trial for this crime, much about the decadence and indifference of the monarchy came out and helped swell revolutionary passions among the populace...
...Louis XVI and Charles Axel-Guillaumont are two of the main characters; are there others...