Word: bikram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When rich, wanderlusty His Highness the Maharaja of Tripura, Sir Bir Bikram Kishore Deb decided to see the world, he instructed Thos. Cook & Son's sniffy "Princes' Department" to assign him its No. 1 courier, big, beefy, 60-year-old Frederick Norbert Wagner. Last June the Maharaja, his entourage of eight, and 58 pieces of luggage arrived in Marseille, France. There, on his toes as usual, Courier Wagner firmly took command...
...roof squats and reigns that absolute autocrat responsible not even to his gods. His Majesty Tribhubana Bir Bikram, proud and by no means petty Mahara-jadhiraya of the valorous, stubbornly independent Kingdom of Nepal...