Word: iii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French press took occasion to retell the story of how the world's most noted pianist was expelled from Russia after playing for Tzar Alexander III. The gist of this tale...
Alexander III: " You are a great artist and an honor to Russia...
...influence in Vienna after marrying the Archduke Maximilian, brother of the late Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary. It was on account of her meddlesomeness that the court hated her and was unmistakably relieved when she departed with her husband to rule Mexico, through the instrumentality of Napoleon III, Emperor of France...
...scientific circles Victor Emmanuel III is known, not as the King of Italy, but as a great numismatist. He has just published Volume Six of his Corpus Nummorum Italicorum, a monumental study of Italian coins from the remote ages to the present day. Of this great work, Volumes 1-5 and 7-8 had already been published...
Margherita of Savoy, mother of the present King Victor Emmanuel III, Queen Mother of Italy, and darling of the Italian people, sold the Villa Aldobrandini, her historic residence in Rome to the Crown Prince Humbert, namesake of her assassinated husband...