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The Uritsky Palace, onetime Taurid Palace, was built by Catherine the Great for her lover, Gregory Aleksandrovitch Potemkin. It was there, 21 years ago, that the first Duma (Parliament) met, only to be suppressed by the fiat of the Autocrat of All the Russias, Nicholas II.
Died. Amy Catherine Robbins Wells, wife of Herbert George
After the revolution, John Paul Jones moved in a dazzling maze of intrigue and outcry. The Duchess of Chartres had helped him fit his ships, and he was a welcome figure in France, where he became an exquisite and a popinjay. Asked to Russia by Catherine the Great, he went...
In Paris, in 1792, 45 years old, John Paul Jones died. Like many another proud man, wit or adventurer, he read Voltaire, not the Bible, on the night he died. Catherine the Great supplied an epitah: " 'This Paul Jones was a very bad character and well worthy of being...
Picketers' Appeal. For "sauntering and loitering" in front of the State House in Boston, 156 men and women were arraigned, found guilty. All but six were fined $5 and paid the fine. The others? Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet; Ellen Hayes, retired Wellesley College professor; John Howard Lawson, playwright; William...