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...formidable gift that His Britannic Majesty's ambassador brought to His Imperial Majesty, the Shah of Persia, that day in 1804. The ambassador had carried it over thousands of miles, from England, around the Cape of Good Hope, and up the Persian Gulf to Teheran. But the gift was apparently worth the bother. The Shah was so delighted with it that he gave himself a new title in its honor: "Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...William Knox D'Arcy, an adventurous Englishman who had amassed a fortune in the Australian gold fields, scented a new bonanza. He paid Iran's Shah $20,000 for a 60-year monopoly on oil production in five-sixths of Iran, promised him an additional 16% of the profits. Seven years later, D'Arcy's prospectors brought in a gusher. In 1909, the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. (renamed Anglo-Iranian in 1935) was founded, has been spouting profits ever since. It built the world's largest refinery at Abadan, became a top-ranking crude...
After war jitters had caused Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, to discourage presents and cancel plans for lavish wedding parties this week, his fiancée, Soraya Esfandiari, recovering from typhoid, came down with the grippe and the wedding itself was postponed for a month...
...When the Shah of Iran visited the U.S. last year, he got a royal welcome that laid the groundwork for a $25 million Export-Import Bank loan. Day by day, through an Iran relay station, the Voice of America beamed an account of the Shah's glad-hand tour. When the Shah returned to his country he decided to continue the Voice relays. For 15 minutes daily since then, the Voice has been heard from the Teheran medium-wave station. Last week the Shah's government silenced the VOA relay broadcasts. The order came a few days after...
Special Delivery. The present King, Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur Shah Bahadur Shum Shere Jung Deva, came to the throne in.ign when he was five. Little is known of him except that he is said to be able to ride two horses at the same time, one foot on each. Also, he married two sisters on the same...