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...committing hara-kari -suicide. The late Prince was a brother-in-law of the Mikado, and, as the Councellor of the Embassy explained, the ancient rite of hara-kari is carried out by the Samurais only in the event of the death of the Mikado; lesser members of the royal family do not receive such homage. On April 29, 1909, Prince Kitashirakawa married the Mikado's second sister, Princess Fusako...
...Yamashina, third son of Prince Kikumaro Yamashina, caused a mental earthquake in society circles by entering the Imperial University at Tokyo as a student of literature. Imperial princes in the past have invariably entered either the military or the naval service. Prince Yamashina is the first member of the Royal Family to break the convention by entering a university. He is a graduate of the peers' school...
According to the Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, two Japanese physicians, Umeno and Doi, have successfully introduced a prophylactic vaccination of dogs against hydrophobia. Used in two prefectures of Japan, the vaccine has already caused a 75% reduction in canine rabies...
Count Carlo Calvi di Bergolo, husband of Princess Yolanda: "I arrived in Rome by train for my wedding and found reporters, photographers and a royal automobile waiting for me at the station. Wearing civilian clothes, I gave them all the slip and took a taxicab to the palace...
...pilot) attains an altitude of 2,000 feet-and, in addition, shows ability to hover and to remain stationary in the air for half an hour in a 20 mile wind-its inventor will receive a ?50,000 prize, the British Air Ministry announced. A man in the British Royal Air Force walked slowly into a revolving airplane propeller and was instantaneously killed. Medical opinion attributes the accident to a curious form of hypnotism...