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...historic massacre of the Huguenots (a name given from about the middle of the 16th Century to the Protestants of France), so called because it began in Paris on St. Batholomew's Day, Aug. 24, 1572. It was planned by Catherine de' Medici, primarily as revenge upon Admiral Coligny, but later being broadened in scope so as to include the slaughter at one blow of all the Huguenot leaders, thus ruining the Protestant party in France. At length persuading the King that the massacre was a measure of public safety, she succeeded in wringing from him his consent...
Despite her defeat by Helen Wills (TIME, Aug. 27), the U. S. L. T. A. had counted on Molla Mallory to maintain by her long tournament experience the morale of the 1924 American Olympic tennis team. Despite the fact that she had competed for Norway in the 1912 Olympics, the U. S. L. T. A. had applied (TIME, Jan. 14) for special exception to the rule which prohibits an entrant who has competed for one country from competing for another...
Central America. The earliest dates in New World history were definitely determined and the chronology of the Mayan calendar solved by Dr. Herbert J. Spinden, of the Peabody Museum, Harvard. The historical first day of the Mayas was Aug. 6,613 B. C. (by our calendar), from which point a numerical record of elapsed days was kept and astronomical events were recorded accurately. On Dec. 10,580 B. C., the perfected calendar was formally inaugurated and functioned without loss of a single day until the Mayan records were destroyed by the Spanish Inquisition in Yucatan, in 1561 A. D. These...
...Prince George, fourth son of King George and Queen Mary, celebrated his 21st birthday. Under an act known as 1 Geo. 1. c. 28 of Aug. 3, 1910, the Civil List of Their Majesties stipulates for the payment to trustees of ?10,000 ($43,500) a year for each son who attained the age of 21. When Parliament reassembles in January it will be asked to vote this sum to the young Prince...
...Aug. 4, 1914: "In the very vanguard of the 20th Century in most respects, Germany has straggled back into the 17th Century politically. The curse of mediaeval government has hung over her noblest achievements. At a great crisis of their history the German people are deprived of that power over their own political institutions without which the English speaking peoples have justly come to regard life itself as intolerable...