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...Great Teacher came. He was Baha' O'llah (Blessed Manifestation). He was the grandson of a Grand Vizier of Persia. He died in 1892, but left a son who had been born May 23, 1844. The son-Abdul Baha-kept a shrine at Akka, Syria. He died in 1921, after having been knighted by King George V for War-services. He loved "flowers and light...
...Polish authorities that "perpetual treaty" is not regarded as a meaningless phrase in Poland. The reason for this statement is that Turkey, of all the nations of Europe, refused to acknowledge the annihilation of Poland at the time of the Third Partition (1795) and until the deposition of Sultan Abdul Aziz (1876) the Polish Ambassador was always invited to the various ceremonies of the Turkish Court. During the 123 years in which the Polish State was nonexistent, Turkey was a warm friend of the Poles, many of whom settled in European Turkey and fought at different times for the Star...
...Marechal Lyautey has for many years been identified with Morocco. From 1901 (when the then General Lyautey was instructed by the French Government to assist Sultan Abdul Aziz in extending his territories toward the South) to the present day, the name Lyautey has been interwoven in the history of France in the Shereefian Empire. He was appointed Resident General on April 28, 1912 (the month after the Fez Treaty was signed, establishing the French Protectorate over Morocco) and served in that capacity until December 13, 1916, when he returned to France to take command of a unit on the Western...
...Caliph Abdul Medjid, as a private citizen, lowered the Crescent to half-mast on the state yacht and palaces. Flags of the Allied warships on the Bosphorus and in the Dardanelles, all flew their flags at half-mast...
...extreme Northwest of the African continent-although demarked by boundaries, has never been fully occupied by the Spanish. In 1921 Spain determined to exert her influence over the whole of her protectorate, but in doing so met with serious disaster at the hands of the Riffians, commanded by Abdul Krim. Particularly since then Spain has had a hard row to hoe both in Morocco and at home. Although the towns of Nadur and Zelnan were recaptured from the Riffians in 1921, there have been more or less continuous clashes between the Spanish forces and the natives. At home the controversy...