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According to a book written by General Dietrix who, on orders from Admiral Kolchak, made an investigation of the circumstances of the murders of the Tzar and his family, the heads of the Imperial Royal Family were cut off, preserved in alcohol and delivered to the Tcheka...
...young Australian Premier, twice wounded in the War, is the political hero of the Antipodes. Although a Cambridge graduate, he owned a dry goods firm and belonged to the Labor Party. The War came. He founded the Nationalist Party, fought with the Royal Fusiliers, went to Geneva, startled the League of Nations by a brilliant plea for disarmament, returned to Australia, succeeded (when ex-Premier Hughes had failed) in effecting a coalition against the Labor Party, became Premier, remained young...
...Golden Fleece, little "King Otto," as he is known to a vast majority of Hungarians, followed by his sister and brothers, his mother, members of the Habsburg family and a large number of nobles, clergy and other notables, went in solemn procession to the church. There the Royal Family were received by the Primate of Spain, Cardinal-Prince Archbishop of Toledo, and by Bishop Dr. Ernst Seydl (former Court Pastor), who had come to Lequeito several weeks before to prepare and administer the Holy Confirmation to the Imperial Children. After a brief prayer at the altar of the sacrament...
...Eternal Struggle. Oldsters will recall the day when Earle Williams was one of the major idols of the cinema, Earle rather dropped from prominence. Here, then, is he back again. Playing the Royal Northwest Mounted Policeman in scarlet coat and honor of pure white, he makes what is dubiously known among movie fans as a "romantic figure." Royal Northwesterners have by this time become just a trifle stereotyped. The first sentence in the Scenario Writer's Primer reads: " The Northwest Mounted Policeman always gets...
George V of England: " A royal commission pronounced Buckingham Palace a firetrap with its labyrinth of draughty hallways, inflammable partitions, old-fashioned wiring and heating installations, spoke of it as ' fraught with peril.' The Palace, like all English Government buildings, is not insured...