Word: caliphs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angora, the Grand National Assembly passed a bill providing for the deposition of Abdul Medjid Effendi, Caliph of all the Mussulmans...
...Constantinople, police were ordered to supervise the households of the Caliph and the Imperial Princes with a view to preventing the removal of precious objects...
...rather do; but, except with a few exceedingly superior persons, this ambition has been but lamely realized. It is much too difficult to acquire such philosophic poise when these same professors wield a power over one's destiny comparable to the of the notable Kublai Khan, or the former Caliph of Bagbad...
Said Mr. Levermore: "It might be the tale of the 1002nd night in which Mr. Bok is playing two parts, that of observant caliph and that of benevolent magician...
...Caliph Abdul Medjid, as a private citizen, lowered the Crescent to half-mast on the state yacht and palaces. Flags of the Allied warships on the Bosphorus and in the Dardanelles, all flew their flags at half-mast...