Word: khans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Highness Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah, the Aga Khan III, offered �100,000 last week to Sir John Rutherford for his colt Solario ?was refused...
...everyone knows, the Aga Khan III claims descent from Mohammed and the earliest Persian monarchs. As such, he and his late father and grandfather have rendered invaluable service to Britain by loyally championing the British raj in India and British interests generally throughout Mohammedan countries...
...Khans have been generously rewarded by Britannia?no niggard when she obtains good value for her money. The present Aga Khan III was accorded a salute of eleven guns, in recognition of his invaluable World War services, by Britain...
Pompous street criers strode last week through the narrow, vile and crowded thoroughfares of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. What the criers intoned in majestic Persian, their attendants translated freely into vulgar Pushtoo. Soon the 100,000 citizens of Kabul rejoiced that there Amir* ("Sovereign Lord") Amanullah Khan had conferred upon himself by proclamation the title "King...
...rubbings of Chinese stone inscriptions already possessed by the Fogg Museum, and photographic records of a series of paintings which are likely to prove to great interest as the work of the little known list Hsi Hsia dynasty which came to an end in the destructive times of Ghengis Khan Professor Paul Pelliot of the College de France, who visited Harvard in March to lecture at the Fogg Museum on recent discoveries in Chinese Archaeology is one-of three living scholars who can discipher this Hsi Hsia language. Of their art, little has been known up to this time...