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...Marquis Kuni is a brother of Princess Nagako, who may one day be Empress of Japan, being at pres-ent the bride-elect of Prince Regent Hirohito. The royal wedding was postponed at the time of the recent earthquake (TIME, Sept...
...Chinese I ho Gh'uan, meaning The Patriotic United Fists, a secret society which originally was anti-dynastic, and had nothing to do with pugilism in spite of some " peculiar calisthenic exercises." At the end of the 19th Century the society came under the influence of the Empress Dowager, who persuaded them that the foreigner and his. spheres of interest-and not the Manchu dynasty-was responsible for the ills of China, and incited them to fight the invaders of their land-hence the Boxer Rising...
...album was presented by the Emperor, William 1 and the Empress Augusta to Dr. Thomas W. Evans, a famous dentist of Paris. Beside the elaborate binding the volume contains a medallion of the Emperor. It has been temporarily deposited in the Library for exhibition by C.F. Muller...
...book which redeems the fair name of the late Empress of Russia...
Most particularly does it deal with the confidence that the Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna shared with the author; with the noble work done by "my Empress"; with the blindness and kindness of the Tsar; the pathetic illness of the Tsarevitch; and with many other details, pleasant and unpleasant, connected with the Romanov Family...