Word: royalities
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...British Museum, and many times has it been translated. But never until an enthusiast for flying studied it did it disclose that Solomon gave to his friend, the Queen of Sheba, an airship which her son, Menyelek, flew. Without the hobby-horse of Colonel Lockwood Marsh, Secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society, the world might still honor Leonarda da Vinci as the first designer of air craft...
...chosen to make a preliminary survey of the mountain in the Himalayas in 1921, and it was in large measure due to his knowledge of high altitudes that the recent expedition succeeded in reaching 27,235 feet above sea level. The expedition was sent out to India by the Royal Geographic Society and the Alpine Club of England...
Since last October Mr. Mallory has lectured in England, and has only recently been given permission by the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club to relate his story of the expedition in this country...
...mere lapse of a few milleniums is not enough to relegate a custom of the past to oblivion. Life, perhaps, is fleeting, but time is short. When a certain Pharoah was embalmed and laid away in his royal tomb in the hillside, a mouse happened to wander in with his funeral procession. When the slaves sealed up the gate the mouse lay down beside the king, and so they were found when the archaeologists broke in--companions in eternity...
...more recent discoveries show the completeness of the equipment which was buried with the Egyptian monarchs. Food of all sorts carefully packed, chests bearing the stamp of Tutankhamen as a god and containing vessels supposedly used in religious rites; even royal underwear, the first evidences of such garments among the Pharoahs has been discovered...