In what was to become a persistent phenomenon in Balkan history, unity was brought about mostly by external pressure.
Beautiful, aristocratic, soignee and headstrong, their lives intersected with 20th century history: Unity fell in love with Hitler, Nancy wrote wonderful novels, Diana married Oswald Mosley, Pamela broke John Betjeman's heart, Jessica went to America and became a Communist and Deborah became chatelaine of Chatsworth.
Meanwhile, European policy makers and central bankers are wrecking one of the most fascinating projects in human history, the unity and friendship among the countries of Europe.
Xi said it's key that China be portrayed as a "civilized country featuring rich history, ethnic unity and cultural diversity, and as an Oriental power with good government, developed economy, cultural prosperity, national unity and beautiful mountains and rivers," the official New China News Agency reported.
The party will have reaffirmed its monopoly on the writing of its own and the country's history, the unity of party and military, and the strength of the security services.
After months of a brutal crackdown and a bitter civil war, in a country with little history of unity where autonomous brigades of fighters still roam the capital, citizens have been unexpectedly willing to set aside their grievances against functionaries of the Qaddafi government.
Although Manichaeism was long considered a Christian heresy, it was a religion in its own right that, because of the coherence of its doctrines and the rigidness of its structure and institutions, preserved throughout its history a unity and unique character.
It said the pope would experience the "patriotism, culture, and the Cuban people's spirit of solidarity and humanism, on which the history and unity of the nation are based".
The resplendent valley shown in Hill's painting is an image born of the twin ideals of that moment in American history: national unity, and westward expansion.
In the story of the Tower of Babel, the final story in the primeval history, a primal unity of humankind in which there is only one language is shattered when, in their pride, human beings decide to build a city and a tower that will reach up to the heavens.
IT is an irony of modern German history that national unity was achieved just as the nation-state model in Western Europe was being drained of its political content.
