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...superlative beauty of her voice; and the supreme gift of magnetism." Henry Edward Krehbiel, his rival on the Tribune, accorded her "the most sensational triumph ever achieved by any opera or singer." In Europe it was the same. She sang for the Tsar, for the Sultan, for the Empress Eugenie, the Kings of Sweden and Greece. Queen Victoria entertained her at Windsor and Balmoral, had a marble bust made by her own royal order so that the Great Calve should be remembered at Windsor for all time...
...dispute was engendered when the J. G. White Corporation of Manhattan announced that it had obtained a contract from Ras Taffari, Prince Regent of Abyssinia (otherwise known as Ethiopia) for Empress Waizeru Zauditu, to build a $20,000,000 dam across the Blue Nile at Lake Tsana...
...interested in the article on SPAIN in TIME, Sept. 26. It is certainly tragic that all King Alfonso's sons should be practically invalids. Of course the bad blood comes through Queen Victoria of Spain's father, Prince Henry of Battenberg, who was a Hesse-Darmstadt like Empress Alexandra of Russia, and her only son, Tsarevitch Alexis, had hemophilia as Crown Prince Alfonso has. Also Queen Victoria of Spain's two brothers were both delicate and died young, Prince Maurice and Prince Leopold of Battenberg, only her eldest brother Alexander (now Marquess of Carisbrooke in England...
...Hungary) attempted to regain his Hungarian throne; each time he was thwarted: the Little Entente powers, by threatening armed intervention, forced Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Governor of Hungary, and his able Premier, Count Stephan Bethlen, to oppose his ill-advised return and to hand him and Empress Zita over to the British, who exiled him to Funchal on the Island of Madeira, where he died on April 1, 1922, of pneumonia...
Upon a litter lay Empress Nagako. Erect and stern, Emperor Hirohito surveyed the scene before him. To one side court bards chanted a portion of the classics in a low tone. The great of the Empire surrounded the Imperial group. In it was Premier Güchi Tanaka, clad immaculately in Occidental formal attire. Hands placed together, he prayed, standing, eyes wide open, before a flag-adorned shrine...