Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...determination, be ceded to the new Poland. One only need look at the facts of population and history to refute this argument. In 1910 the population of West Prussia was 1,703,474 of which 980,-571 were of Polish stock. Frederick the Great added West Prussia to his kingdom, comprising Pomerania and East Prussia, in 1772 by the first partition of Poland. That province had been a part of the Polish kingdom since the treaty of Thom in 1466, when it had been acquired from the Teutonic Knights. In those three centuries West Prussia had become thoroughly Polish...
...Fellowship will be made each year in the usual manner of such appointments at the University, following the nomination and recommendation of the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, England, Failing a candidate from Cambridge, the Vice-Chancellor may select a candidate from any other university in the United Kingdom. A provision is made that the same person may hold the Fellowship for three consecutive years upon three consecutive nominations...
...plot of the comedy is developed around the rise and fall of a Bolshevik prince, who usurps the throne of the Kingdom of Ptomainia, only to lose his insecure seat later, because of his tyranical mismanagement of the affairs of that worthy empire. The action is divided into three acts and five scenes, entitled respectively, "The Day Before Yesterday," "Yesterday," "Today," "Tomorrow," and "The Day After Tomorrow...
...Despite glowing reports in the American press, and great as the effort of that country doubtless is, there is no doubt a considerable time must elapse before the desired output is obtained." But so far is he from intending disparagement of the United States in comparison with the United Kingdom that he says in the latter there has been a serious drop in the rate of ship production, that owing to labor unrest and strike difficulties the men in the yards are not working as if the life of the country depended on their exertions, but that even at this...
...effective advocacy of Irish autonomy, he wins a place beside O'Connell and Parnell as a hero of the Home Rule movement. By his ultimate loyalty to the endangered empire, without regard to internal issues, he wins an enduring place among the statesmen and patriots of the United Kingdom...