Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There the representatives of the Christian world were accorded a standing place at the left hand of the famed Peacock Throne* of Persia. On the right stood high Persian dignitaries-most of them Moslems, some Christians. All had assembled for the coronation of a man who five years ago was a mere bandit, Reza Pahlavi, marauding in Persia at the head of some Russian Cossacks who would not stop fighting when their original master, the Tsar, was executed...
Haakon VII. The monarch who may thus shortly reign over a large part of the two extremities of the globe is the second son of King Frederick VIII and brother of Christian X of Denmark. In 1896 King Edward VII of Britain prudently caused the marriage of his third daughter, Maud, to Haakon, then Prince Carl of Denmark. In 1905 the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), emboldened by the benign attitude of the British Lion, declared dissolved the union of Norway and Sweden (1814-1905) and elected as king of Norway, Carl of Denmark, who promptly took the favorite name...
...earliest dated inscription is on a small jade statuette of 96 B.C. The great cities of Northern Guatemala flourished from the beginning of the Christian era until about...
...cultural connection, shown by a comparison and study of the painted ceramics which have been discovered, between China, Southern Russia and the Messopotamian countries. Therefore, although it may be difficult to trace these connections later, we must admit that they existed many centuries before the beginning of the Christian era, possibly as early as 3,000 B. C. The painted ceramics of Northern China are, by the way, about the best which have been found anywhere...
...Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton, backed strongly by President Hibben, stood forth yesterday against the American Association of University Professors which found that football is a menace to morals and education, when he stated that, "football, properly coached and conducted, is a healthy and wholesome sport for players and spectators. I wish, we could play it the year around...