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Baedeker says the picture is in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome. But there has always been room for doubt on this subject even before Empress Pulcheria removed it from Antioch to the Church of the Guides, Constantinople...
...close of the Russo-Japanese war, the coral-and-sapphire-buttoned mandarins of Her Celestial Majesty the Empress Dowager signed a treaty guaranteeing the security of Japanese subjects in Manchuria, promising not to construct any Chinese railroads parallel to the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway or prejudicial to its interest. At China's request, the terms of the treaty were kept secret. The world has long known of its existence. Violation of it was Japan's excuse to the world for the invasion of Manchuria. Last week it was published...
Last Princess Royal was King George's younger sister who died Jan. 4, 1931. The one before that was Edward VII's elder sister, the Empress Frederick of Germany, mother of Wilhelm II. The title, to which Princess Mary has every right, is traditionally given to the eldest daughter of the sovereign whenever a vacancy arises. Not mentioned in the honors list (as usual) was Princess Mary's lanky husband, the Earl of Harewood, who has for years dearly longed to be made a duke...
...that Their Majesties could land at 4 p.m., the hour prescribed by Siamese omen readers as best, the royal yacht took the royal party off the S. S. Empress of Canada in which they crossed the Pacific, then waited just out of sight of Bangkok until the Auspicious Hour...
Nine years is a long time to be the concubine of any man, especially of the deposed Emperor of China, weak-eyed and sapless Mr. Henry Pu Yi. Last week pretty Shu Fei, that Imperial concubine known euphemistically as "The Empress of the Eastern Court," was the sensation of all China. She had run away from Mr. Pu. She had hired lawyers. Terming her concubinage "marriage" she presumptuously sued for a "divorce...