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...History 1 which last year were given by Professor Merriman after mid-years will be given this year by Professor R. H. Lord A.M. '06. Professor Merriman is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of both the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Royal Historical Society, and a corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Historia of Madrid...
...entrance became a triumph! Whenever the royal carriage halted, the people assembled and danced their native folk dance, the kole. Delighted peasants capered and cried out that the good old times had come again. That night Alexander and Marie slept tranquilly in the royal castle, uninhabited since the exile of the Petrovich dynasty. A glimmer of rejoicing and good will had lifted the lowering cloud of the Balkans for an instant...
...Spithead naval review of 1897, a trim ship some 100 feet long with Turbinia on her taffrail was observed by irate officials to be cutting deliberately across the bows of the royal yacht. Immediately patrol boats gave chase. But the Turbinia showed a clean pair of heels to the fastest ships of the line. Aboard her stood Engineer Parsons, grinning. He had the fastest ship in the world. Within seven years, every British man-of-war and most large passenger ,ships were being fitted with steam turbines. In 1911 the inventor was knighted...
English stargazers are moaning. Well they may. They met last week ? the Royal Astronomical Society ? on the day when a 40-years task they undertook in 1885 with the stargazers of the world, was to have been complete. The The Britons had completed their share of the work, but no other shares were done, some not even begun...
Married. Mafalda, second daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, to Philip, Prince of Hesse, nephew of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II; at Racconigi, famed summer palace of the House of Savoy, before 40 kings, queens, princes and princesses, representing nine royal houses. The occasion was raised to historic significance because, for the rst time since the World War, a marriage was celebrated between royal families who were enemies during that conflict...