Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter from Tokyo related that the Iseniyama Temple on Lake Biwa, near Kyoto, sent His Imperial Majesty Emperor Yoshihito (122nd ruler of Japan, who was forced into retirement in 1921 owing to a mental affliction) no less than 10,000 fireflies...
...Emperor Yoshihito was much touched at the superfluity of illumination that the Temple had sent him. He smiled and sent half of them to the Japanese Pragger Wagger (Crown Prince) who, in his garden at Tokyo, liberated them. The Prince, being but recently married, found enough light in the eyes of his Princess Firefly...
...Sadowa or Königgratz (1866): battle in the Austro-Prussian War which ended the old German Confederation (composed of both German and Austrian states) and resulted in the North German Confederation, the nucleus of the German Empire. Sedan (1870): battle in the Franco-Prussian War in which the Emperor Napoleon III was taken prisoner. There was declared to be a "vacancy of power" in France, and the third Republic (the present...
...year 1415, Emperor Sigismund, the perfidious ruler of the Holy Roman Empire and the last of the Luxemburg dynasty, had burned at the stake one John Hus, protestant against the Catholic Church (he is alleged to have intimated that the Antichrist might be found at Rome), and a hero of Bohemia...
Died. Mme. George Bakhmetev, formerly Miss Mary Beale of Washington, wife of onetime Russian Ambassador to the U. S., daughter of General Edward F. Beale, onetime U. S. Minister to the Court of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria Hungary; in Paris...